Digest / July 15, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 15, 2026
210 new issues filed ·
29 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (210)
- [Sites] Public deployment succeeds but production URL resets before headers
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- Parallel subagents cause extreme token amplification and repeated compaction
- ChatGPT Work randomly crashes and causes severe startup lag (still happening after repeated reports)
- GPT 5.6 Terra => Consumed 80% context for really simple bugs, tried to load secrets/keychain to expose them to third party web site (because it could not download the images from atlassian)
- Codex Desktop crashes when the in-app Browser opens with multiple side chats running
- Long-running goal is incorrectly marked as blocked after a sub-agent triggers the cybersecurity safety filter
- Codex Desktop: make multi-task multi-window workflow first-class and discoverable
- Codex Error submitting message
- gy-manual-1
- Codex Desktop: image-only first turn remains inProgress after websocket prewarm timeout without sampling
- Windows Desktop fails to start after enabling WSL ("Operation not permitted (os error 1)")
- Codex Fails to Launch: "The 'gpt-5.2' model is not supported when using a ChatGPT account"
- Projects not showing up
- GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark weekly limit stays at 100% after successful usage
- Codex Desktop: move Archive away from Rename/Pin in task context menu
- Codex Desktop: make task right-click context menu larger for readability and click accuracy
- It does not limit itself to the approved plan.
- Codex Desktop silently omits a valid V2 custom pet on native Windows
- Codex Desktop: add voice mode for interview prep and spoken project walkthroughs
- Codex Desktop: hover shortcut hint does not update after remapping Search
- Codex Desktop v2 pet look directions ignore the physical mouse and only follow the Computer Use cursor on Windows
- Explicitly allowlisted loopback target still requires allow_local_binding
- Desktop: @Browser mention does not bind the open IAB backend to the current task
- Internal ChatGPT Desktop tasks trigger Codex hooks with non-resumable session IDs
- Codex Windows app freezes for several seconds when opening any history conversation
- Codex Desktop create_thread can leave child task inProgress with zero events indefinitely
- [Windows App] GPT-5.6-Sol Max is filtered out and config max falls back to Light
- Codex Desktop on Linux consumes ~65k inotify watches and exhausts the system limit
- Image-heavy multi-agent task replays inherited image context, causing 1.48B tokens, 70.73GB traffic, and heavy swap/disk growth
- [Windows App] skills/list blocks thread switching for 14–22s across 29 workspaces
- Codex Desktop on macOS shadows project-local developer_instructions with a host-generated thread override
- Codex CLI install.sh: verify_archive_digest overwrites global archive_path
- Open in app allows two app-server processes to write the same rollout, merging divergent histories after restart
- 019f61ec-68e7-75d2-aa4d-fb18c3804fcc
- Custom agents cannot be selected because spawn_agent exposes only task_name
- Sites: changing sharing to public fails with AttributeError on access_mode.value
- Codex Desktop: DataAnalysisWidget content stretches after expanding the side panel
- thread ID 019f6256-c111-7a42-bdb2-b7773f202efe
- macOS: stale bundled Chrome/Computer Use marketplace installs revoked helpers and prevents native-host registration
- Feature Request: Let ChatGPT monitor and supervise active Codex tasks
- --search does not inject web_search tool for gpt-5.6-terra/luna with a Responses-compatible custom provider, while gpt-5.5 works
- Codex Desktop: DataAnalyticsWidget content disappears at certain panel widths and after expand/maximize
- @oai/artifact-tool files renamed with "(1)" suffix on Windows, causing missing entry file error
- [bug] Computer Use helper's black console briefly appears when a turn completes
- Standalone installer/updater never prunes old releases in $CODEX_HOME/packages/standalone/releases (3.8 GB after 12 updates)
- exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests
- Windows Desktop 26.707.9981: system cursor visually jitters when Codex becomes idle/background
- Image Editing Triggers False-Positive Moderation
- Codex Desktop: allow browsing full ChatGPT web chat history when importing chats
- Codex Desktop loses cumulative operator constraints during long repository sessions
- MCP tools wrapped as "namespace" tool type are ignored by non-OpenAI endpoints
- [Windows] Orphaned git.exe processes persist in 26.707.9981.0 and correlate with kernel pool growth
- MCP tools/list_changed notification does not invalidate deferred tool cache or refetch tools/list
- `codex exec`: multi_agent_v2 subagent results unusable — parent turn fails with "Encrypted function output content could not be decrypted or decoded"
- pawn_agent model and reasoning_effort overrides silently dropped when a non-empty agent role is applied
- Feature request: Let Codex discover and recommend marketplace plugins for user needs
- Codex Desktop on macOS fails to open chat file links in the built-in preview
- imagen can't use
- /fast status reports off but TUI status line still shows fast on Codex CLI 0.144.4
- Codex Browser
- ChatGPT upgrade to 5.6SOl but all historical conversation disappeared.
- [macOS] Hiding the floating composer or closing global dictation can silently discard an active recording
- Codex CLI: gpt‑5.6‑sol Ultra Fast background loop drained weekly limit
- [Bug] macOS M4: mini window renders a black rectangle when hovering its top-left area
- Codex desktop freezes on tasks continued from ChatGPT conversations
- Windows Desktop: imported Continuing thread falls back to New Task and never renders
- Windows app: Sites update_site_access fails with AttributeError and UI fallback is unauthenticated
- intergrated terminal bug
- Codex Desktop create_thread does not inherit auto-approval mode for worktree tasks
- macOS app crashes with SIGTRAP every time Settings opens during Claude Cowork import detection
- Multi-Agent V2 prevents content-aware local pre-execution inspection of delegated instructions
- Codex Desktop compaction does not bound transcript hydration/rendering; valid long thread becomes unscrollable
- Codex/ChatGPT update deleted all the conversations
- [macOS] Chrome sessions become unavailable after Codex uses Chrome and Chrome is relaunched
- [Windows Desktop] New local project cannot create first task: "Error creating task: Timeout" across Sol and Terra
- Codex Desktop: local task creation times out, then fails with “no rollout found”
- [Windows app] Browser and Chrome fail before tab discovery: Cannot redefine property: process
- app-server busy-loops at ~90% CPU and leaks ~4.8 GB while idle (0 connections); ignores SIGTERM
- Codex Desktop: failure badge is shown while the task is still running
- Markdown tables do not render when resuming Codex TUI conversations
- [CLI] Add deterministic execution budgets to `codex exec` (`--max-steps` / `--max-agent-turns`)
- `codex app` cannot spawn ChatGPT.app
- Basic vim keybindings are missing, makes vim mode useless
- macOS ChatGPT Desktop App only displays one Project while chatgpt.com displays all Projects
- Feat(statusline): show rate-limit reset countdown
- Codex Remote should deliver notifications reliably to all authorized mobile devices
- Codex Desktop: support a tiled multi-pane workspace for chat, UI preview, source, and tasks
- False-positive cybersecurity block for local MySQL MTR regression testing
- Send / Queue / Steer / Draft
- Codex Desktop: support nested local projects in the Projects sidebar
- False positive cybersecurity block for JWT viewer
- Allow opt-in full 1.05M context and configurable compaction for GPT-5.6 Sol
- Pasted code is transformed into formatted rich text
- Codex app loses latest project chat from UI/index after restart, but session remains recoverable by direct session ID
- Add an atomic handoff primitive for token-budget context rollover
- Windows Codex Desktop repeatedly leaves thousands of __PSScriptPolicyTest_*.ps1 files in %TEMP%
- Codex App copied an entire external project into another repo and then hid it via .gitignore
- YOLO mode still prompts for local commands due to temporary IPC sockets
- [Follow-up] Multi-Agent V2 needs verifiable full-profile application and lifecycle continuity for custom agents
- Workspace dependencies didn't install
- opone shit
- Codex App ignored instructions, performed unrequested actions, and gave contradictory permission claims
- Codex Desktop: show pending approval status in the Ctrl+Tab task switcher
- [app][macOS] Browser-use Node workers accumulate to 10–18 GB, exhaust swap, and suspend unrelated apps
- ChatGPT for Windows crashes when it detects a Microsoft Store update users can’t install — the updater prevents the entire app from launching
- [Windows] Background Store update silently exits tray app and does not relaunch
- Codex Desktop model switch downgrades project task to read-only, prompting for every workspace write
- Codex Desktop auto-switches to inactive task when it requests approval
- TUI exits on one Ctrl+C when /side cleanup fails during startup
- Request block every time
- Usage Reset consumed but weekly usage remained at 0%, requiring a second reset
- [macOS] Codex App can create a persistent self-restart loop and may re-run a side-effecting tool call after recovery
- RTL (Right-to-Left) text is rendered incorrectly as LTR
- multi_agent_v2: fork_turns="all" sends msg_* items without their required reasoning items
- Request to restore user-controlled Custom Subagent / Agent Orchestration capabilities
- Codex drops global task constraints after a tool-schema error and reports success
- [Windows] Codex Desktop exits when Browser Use creates first IAB tab after route mismatch
- Regression: Upgrading to Codex replaces ChatGPT Desktop UI and removes access to existing ChatGPT Projects and chat history26.707.71524 Released 14 Jul 2026 Powered by Codex & OWL
- The latest ChatGPT Mac app only displays my ChatGPT Work workspace and provides no option to switch to my Personal workspace. ## Environment
- Feature request: Chinese localization for the Codex desktop app UI
- macOS Gatekeeper warning for bundled rg in Codex extension on Antigravity
- macOS Desktop Recent menu shows “New task” for local sessions with persisted titles
- macOS Desktop Recent menu shows “New task” for local sessions with persisted titles
- macOS Desktop Recent menu shows “New task” for local sessions with persisted titles
- Admin permissions have been moved from me ot the enterprise
- DANGEROUS, this model is too DANGEROUS
- build-ios-apps starts multiple XcodeBuildMCP instances on unsupported Linux hosts, causing severe memory pressure
- Bug: Weekly quota not reset in July 14 global reset (8M users milestone)
- Unable to Archive Conversations Directly from Sidebar Chat History
- Cursor is black in dark mode editing markdown in WYSIWYG mode
- The Codex sandbox starts successfully and can read/write project files.
- Integrated terminal opens but is not attached to imported projectless task
- Any filesystem deny rule prevents exiting the sandbox after approval
- codex-skill: A-shares
- Codex sandbox with network policy silently does nothing unless `feature.network_proxy` is enabled
- ChatGPT UI Window glitches
- MCP OAuth login drops the RFC 9207 iss callback parameter, failing servers that advertise it
- Windows: sandboxed exec leaks 3–5 lsass handles per command execution, degrading the whole OS over long sessions
- Historical Codex project threads missing after migration to unified ChatGPT desktop app
- Codex Mobile Remote: allow downloading generated workspace files to the phone
- Remote SSH threads disappear or fail to open because pinned-thread hydration is routed to the local app server
- Chat handoff hangs forever
- Codex keeps crashing windows and mac
- Feature request: option to disable hover-triggered sidebar reveal
- Extremely Slow — ACL before every command, 20-30s each time
- [Windows][App 26.707.72221] Conversation message area stays blank for ~20 seconds after switching threads
- Long-running Codex sessions lead to whole-PC/laptop lag and freezing on Windows
- Add a /restart command that restarts or reinitializes Codex without requiring the user to exit > and manually relaunch it.
- Windows Desktop 26.707.72221: invalid heartbeat target `thread` is accepted and retried every 4–5s, causing high CPU
- Codex Desktop: interrupted tool task becomes an orphaned “thinking” turn and stop instruction never completes
- After Windows update, it keep silent exit
- [Windows App] Repeated serialport.node delay-load failures cause severe UI lag
- [Windows ARM64 Desktop] App closes cleanly 10-35 seconds after launch on 26.707.9981.0
- [Bug] macOS Chinese IME preedit text does not inherit the shaded CLI composer background
- After /rename, keep the session title visible in the status bar (or prompt) for the lifetime of the session.
- Codex Desktop image editing produced no image output across repeated reference-image edit attempts
- Windows desktop app crashes after update to 26.707.9981.0 due to serialport.node / napi_module_register
- Windows ARM64 app crash-loops on launch — ChatGPT.exe exports no napi_* symbols, serialport addon dies with delay-load 0xC06D007F
- Task switching causes system-wide stuttering
- Codex app: Hide pull requests from archived repositories in the PR inbox
- Codex Desktop (Windows ARM64) crash-loops on launch after server-side feature flag rollout — NAPI delay-load failure in serialport addon (ChatGPT.exe exports no NAPI symbols)
- [Windows ARM64] Codex 26.707.9981.0 crashes on launch: serialport addon missing napi_create_function
- Codex app automatic handoff from ChatGPT fails with “Error submitting message”
- Sandbox mode repeatedly prints Failed to create stream fd: Operation not permitted while commands execute successfully
- Windows elevated sandbox permanently fails with SetNamedSecurityInfoW error 5 on C:\ProgramData\Temp
- Windows ARM64 Codex desktop app exits 7-12 seconds after launch after primary runtime manifest 404
- Codex Desktop reaches 130 GB memory during Ultra multi-agent swarm (24 GB Mac)
- Expose executor OS and architecture in `environment/info` and model context
- ARM64 crash
- Codex Desktop App immediately exits on Windows ARM64 (Snapdragon X Plus)
- gpt-5.6-sol xhigh dropped the git executable while constructing basic shell probes
- Codex App aborts turn with invalid_id_prefix after custom Stop hook feedback
- [Remote/mobile] Idle projectless task disappears from Recent Tasks after backing out; pin ignored
- New chatGPT (Codex) desktop app opens, then exits on Windows ARM64 Surface
- Codex Desktop stops prematurely after context/task handoff instead of continuing work
- Task input vanishes
- In-app browser Page.captureScreenshot times out while macOS session is locked
- Windows: archiving a managed worktree thread leaves node/node_repl processes locking the deleted directory
- [code-mode] outer `exec` truncates aggregated results despite higher nested budgets, causing token waste and retry churn
- MCP OAuth refresh omits the RFC 8707 resource parameter and breaks authenticated servers after access-token expiry
- Codex App rejects valid MCP resource_link tool results with "Unexpected response type"
- Feature request: expose a provider-compatible native edit tool for third-party models
- German localization: missing space in “Erstelltein Agent” activity label
- Regression: Codex Desktop has no persistent context/token usage indicator
- [Windows] Chrome plugin does not install native host and browser-client fails with "Cannot redefine property: process"
- [Windows] Codex app hangs after Codex Micro gate activation.
- Codex Desktop SSH task silently reattaches to local host, loses project binding, and cannot be handed back
- VS Code extension skips lifecycle hooks although bundled CLI and direct app-server run them
- ARM64 Windows: desktop app crashes ~16s after every launch - Codex Micro serialport addon delay-load failure (0xC06D007F)
- Remote follow-up queue stops dispatching when the controlling desktop client sleeps
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- Silently switched models and cost extra time and tokens to fix.
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- Add a MessageDisplay hook for streamed assistant output
- Apple Terminal + tmux: diff background blocks render as solid yellow instead of red/green
- Add a keyboard shortcut for toggling session read/unread
- [Windows ARM64] ChatGPT desktop 26.707.9981 (arm64) crashes on every launch — ChatGPT.exe exports no N-API symbols, delay-load of napi_create_function fails (0xC06D007F)
- [Windows App] codex-computer-use.exe leaks ~18 MB/s until system commit is exhausted
- Codex Desktop: opt-in usage attribution by project and task
- Recognize CUDA .cu and .cuh files for syntax highlighting in CLI diffs
- Windows built-in browser denies geolocation after permission prompt
- Project-scoped subagent policy profiles: named-agent allowlists, model/effort gates, and concurrency quotas
- Windows x64 ChatGPT/Codex 26.707.9981.0: repeated 0xC06D007F and 2-3 second system input lag when opening a new task
- New update - unable to see my chats or projects
- TUI dark-theme diff foregrounds have low contrast on tinted backgrounds
- TUI /goal fails when local goals SQLite database is malformed
- Codex Desktop: MultiAgentV2 silently bypasses agents.max_threads with no migration warning
- Branch Delete on Pull Request Feature
- Bug: In-app browser fails with missing sandboxPolicy runtime field
Resolved issues (29)
- Codex Error submitting message
- Codex Desktop on Linux consumes ~65k inotify watches and exhausts the system limit
- Pet display abnormally
- Codex Desktop: DataAnalysisWidget content stretches after expanding the side panel
- [Bug] macOS M4: mini window renders a black rectangle when hovering its top-left area
- macOS app crashes with SIGTRAP every time Settings opens during Claude Cowork import detection
- `codex app` cannot spawn ChatGPT.app
- Usage draining much faster than yesterday
- GPT-5.6 Sol cannot specify subagent models, forcing all subagents to also be Sol instances
- YOLO mode still prompts for local commands due to temporary IPC sockets
- Feat(statusline): show rate-limit reset countdown
- [bug] VS Code Codex chats not appearing under Projects in macOS app
- [macOS] Codex App can create a persistent self-restart loop and may re-run a side-effecting tool call after recovery
- Cannot select model and effort on a new chat
- macOS Desktop Recent menu shows “New task” for local sessions with persisted titles
- macOS Desktop Recent menu shows “New task” for local sessions with persisted titles
- build-ios-apps starts multiple XcodeBuildMCP instances on unsupported Linux hosts, causing severe memory pressure
- MCP OAuth login drops the RFC 9207 iss callback parameter, failing servers that advertise it
- [Windows ARM64 Desktop] App closes cleanly 10-35 seconds after launch on 26.707.9981.0
- Windows desktop app crashes after update to 26.707.9981.0 due to serialport.node / napi_module_register
- [Windows ARM64] Codex 26.707.9981.0 crashes on launch: serialport addon missing napi_create_function
- mark threads as unread manually
- Codex Desktop (Windows ARM64) crash-loops on launch after server-side feature flag rollout — NAPI delay-load failure in serialport addon (ChatGPT.exe exports no NAPI symbols)
- Windows ARM64 Codex desktop app exits 7-12 seconds after launch after primary runtime manifest 404
- Desktop harness lags really badly on token-high dependant MCP servers
- “New Project” launches task with an incorrect, nonexistent workspace path
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- ARM64 Windows: desktop app crashes ~16s after every launch - Codex Micro serialport addon delay-load failure (0xC06D007F)