Digest / July 17, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 17, 2026
176 new issues filed ·
38 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (176)
- [Windows 10] Unified ChatGPT app causes persistent Microsoft Defender CPU usage and system-wide mouse stuttering
- Background terminal (unified_exec) exit while the session is idle never produces a follow-up turn — the completed task is silently ignored
- [Regression] In-app Browser and Chrome extension still wait ~30s on ab.chatgpt.com Statsig timeouts in VPN TUN mode
- [Windows + WSL] Regaining focus repeatedly reconciles bundled plugins and uses an invalid C:\mnt\c path, causing severe lag
- Codex Desktop: add a discoverable Archived Chats view with restore/open actions
- Separate ChatGPT Work and Codex organization models in the unified desktop app
- [MCP Apps] Deferred MCP tool calls drop structuredContent/_meta, making interactive cards non-functional
- Split desktop app chat+work/codex tabs into three separate chat/work/codex tabs
- apply_patch stalls for several minutes after patch generation while token usage continues, and the file is not modified
- Feature request: show Skills, Plugins, and Tools used in each task sidebar
- Hit guardrails while developing OS from scratch
- [Windows Desktop] Minimize button remains highlighted after restoring the window
- Desktop app makes normal Chat inside cloud Projects impossible and conflates cloud, local, and SSH workspaces
- [**SEVERE ISSUE**][Windows App 26.707.12708.0] single Node MCP child reaches 112 GB and exhausts system commit
- [VS Code + Ubuntu] repeated crash
- image_gen: support generating multiple images per call (optional n)
- [macOS] Tasks and projects disappear from sidebar after update, but Search can still open them
- [Windows][26.715.2305.0] Severe UI lag persists across two updates while main process consumes ~1 CPU core
- [file-search] Session can complete before the first query is processed
- Codex Desktop: keep active tasks visible in a persistent sidebar section
- Regression: Chat / Quick Chat button missing from left sidebar on macOS 26.715.21425
- Windows Desktop elevated sandbox hangs after ACL setup and leaks setup helpers; unelevated works (0.145.0-alpha.18)
- Codex App Browser Use Also Causing Crashes on MacOS
- VS Code extension shows the same global 51 conversations in every workspace
- Codex App session JSONL files grow to 24 GB due to repeated inline image data during context compaction
- False-positive cybersecurity block on “HI” and “？” in Codex CLI
- Windows elevated sandbox repeatedly scans pnpm node_modules, causing 100% disk usage and 30–130s tool latency
- Managed bundled marketplace snapshot remains stale after app update, causing Browser reinstall to select the old plugin version
- [Bug] Interactive question options are cut off in Codex Desktop
- Weekly quota exhausted after last recorded usage was 46%
- Windows sandbox: race condition with the `cap_sid` file update. Multiple Codex CLI instances race to write that file - last one wins and workspaces become unwriteable
- Crash Loop: Application restarts infinitely after closing an error dialog
- [Bug Solved & Solution] VS Code codex extension blank sidebar in Remote SSH on version 26.707.91948
- Redeemed a usage reset, it didn't get applied to my account.
- Don't show again shows again and again and again
- [app] Quote tooltip is misaligned when the first selected line spans multiple inline fragments
- [Bug] Computer Use icon remains visible when no task is running
- Remote Control sidebar does not discover projectless tasks from another Mac
- Allow SSH and Remote Control clients to share the same app-server
- [UX Feedback] Codex and ChatGPT app merger caused significant onboarding and migration confusion
- openai-docs can misreport Manual helper DNS failure despite working Docs MCP fallback
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send follow-up messages after the initial response
- [Codex App][Chrome] Timed-out DOM evaluation leaves Chrome at 160–176% CPU for several minutes
- [Codex CLI][TUI][BUG] TUI hangs at 100% CPU when syntax-highlighting long single-line exec commands
- new model
- Work tasks cannot be used after the update
- Add project filter input box
- Failed to send websocket request
- Codex Desktop re-sends generated-image history in subsequent /responses turns, growing requests to 27 MB and TTFT to 20s+
- input highlight fail
- Windows Codex Desktop silently exits after in-app Browser WebView navigation; disabled Browser plugin is re-enabled on restart
- Codex App “Copy as Markdown” omits response annotations (selected text and user comments)
- Windows Desktop WSL mode: Git watcher retries EISDIR ~6 times/sec on WSL repositories
- Guardian approval-review sub-session reused as user's main thread — judge base_instructions leak, main thread keeps replying {"outcome":"allow"}
- False positive of cybersecurity block for local adversarial machine learning research
- Codex Desktop: Global search and Find in task use inconsistent case sensitivity
- Restore the “scroll to bottom” button in long chats on the new macOS desktop ChatGPT app
- Selective active-context editing ("Exclude from context") for long-running threads
- Add prompt navigation for long chats to the macOS desktop app
- [Bug] Chats moved to a local project disappear from the sidebar after updating Codex Desktop
- Tool-backed sessions cannot prove active root model and reasoning effort
- Windows Desktop cannot preview WSL files because fs/watch treats raw /home paths as local
- [Windows/WSL] Desktop update leaves thread assignments on legacy project IDs and repeatedly reloads large rollouts
- [macOS] Codex Desktop repeatedly steals foreground focus while tasks run in the background
- [Windows][Desktop 26.707.12708.0] ChatGPT.exe spawns hundreds of taskkill.exe/conhost.exe processes, causing WMI storms and DWM degradation
- MultiAgentV2 spawn_agent can hang indefinitely while evicting a terminal resident thread
- Windows Codex desktop app spawns hundreds of taskkill.exe and conhost.exe during local tool execution
- Scope Codex VS Code chats to the current workspace/project
- Windows app hangs ("not responding") after launch — main process blocks forever in HID device enumeration (HID.node → hid.dll) when one HID device doesn't respond
- Work in not in destop App available
- ChatGPT desktop app freezes when switching to a large image-heavy thread (ResizeObserver loop)
- Git commit instructions are omitted for nested repositories in aggregate workspaces
- chatgpt desktop not run on intel mac?
- [Regression after July 17 update] ChatGPT image edits lose product geometry and frequently time out
- [Windows Desktop 26.715] Completed large thread is fully replayed every few seconds, causing system-wide input stutter
- Codex Usage Bug
- App-server docs say remote image URLs are supported, but turn/start rejects them
- Codex App Handoff silently skips non-ignored untracked skill files
- [App] Windows setup hangs after invalid TOML written to shell_environment_policy.set
- Download Links do not work in the app
- Personalise menu only shows custom instructions for codex, not chatgpt
- Restricted Linux sandbox breaks connected Unix socket sends and asyncio wakeups
- TUI: add a right-side user prompt navigator for long conversations
- Voice mode missing from the Desktop App
- Windows Desktop: multiple 1–2 GB rollout sessions trigger ~71 Mbps upstream bursts during resume
- Custom GPTs missing, alongside ChatGPT's Skills
- I cannot download the images generated by ChatGPT
- Cannot reload pages on the desktop app - leads to sync issues
- APP CODEX - add multiple chat sessions
- Feature Request: Allow passing conversation name as the second argument for /new command Description
- Support Nested Conversations Within a Project
- I've burned ~160%(reset) of my $100 weekly limits with moderate load in 5 minutes of usage.
- Make the Codex Pet an Interactive Coding Companion
- [App/iOS] Max reasoning effort missing for GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol on macOS
- [Windows Desktop] Injected slash_tmp root maps to C:\tmp and blocks apply_patch for otherwise writable workspaces
- Codex App fork or Continue-in-worktree applies source diff onto a stale default-branch commit
- Misleading agentic behaviour
- False positive on cybersecurity requests
- Every time hovering on the thread name, app got stuck
- codex plugin crashes vscode, can't use the plugin
- Codex sandbox mounts empty .git at non-repo workspace root, breaking Git discovery in multi-repo workspaces
- Codex App local handoff leaves task CWD index stale and blocks managed worktree
- WSL Desktop cannot archive tasks stored under previous CODEX_HOME after home change
- GPT-5.6 Terra abandons yielded exec_command sessions after ~10s and attempts duplicate commands
- `MultiAgentV2` `followup_task` accepts self-targets and can(and will) livelock orchestration
- [macOS][Pet] Semi-transparent gray fog/halo appears around transparent pet after update
- [Bug] IDE extension redelivered a consumed user message hours later and executed stale file edits
- app-server + external exec-server: `apply_patch` delete never reaches the environment's `fs/remove` — deletes hit the host-local filesystem and fail
- Identical concurrent GPT-5.6 request bodies can split between cache hit and zero
- Windows Codex Desktop 26.715.2305.0 hangs while rendering ~200 KB tool output
- When Codex executes **apply_patch** will error:■ stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- Chinese IME corruption when editing directly pasted formatted assistant output in ChatGPT web and Windows app
- [Desktop terminal] Multiline paste into child TUI is emitted as Enter-separated input despite DECSET 2004
- Codex Extension Hangs Indefinitely and Causes VS Code to Crash on Ubuntu
- Windows: pausing Goal Mode still injects a continuation; restoring its in-app browser silently closes Codex
- Allow side bar to pop out to separate window
- The agent says that will resume the plan, but doesnt really do
- Codex remote-control pairing reuses cloned Mac installation_id and steals another host's connection
- When restaring codex app the button prompts to implement finished plans do disappear
- Codex - Benign usage blocked due to safety checks or refusals.
- Automatic context compaction after model or reasoning changes at 10–24% usage
- Auto fallback if safety check fails
- Queued messages lose causal ordering and can be misinterpreted as replies to later assistant output
- 30+ cyber warnings for non-cyber work.
- HI i am trying to reset limit of usage
- Codex can report the wrong active model despite correct runtime routing
- Windows desktop app becomes unresponsive when switching tasks across Projects
- Codex desktop pet causes periodic system-wide mouse input freezes while a task is running on Windows
- Cybersec Safety Check issue
- Proposal: trinity / trinity-ultra — multi-provider consensus review skills for .codex/skills
- App-server fuzzy file search floods remote clients with intermediate snapshots
- VS Code extension app-server exits in a fresh devcontainer because ~/.codex does not exist
- Bug: Translucent sidebar flickers abnormally when switching
- Keep retrying after getting - Selected model is at capacity (Don't process rest of queue)
- Codex Desktop omits user messages sent from iOS Remote Control even though Codex executes them
- VS Code background-agent panel does not update when native subagents are spawned
- Codex Desktop macOS: unarchive updates local state, then returns `failed to read unarchived thread`; thread appears after restart
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Vscode to crash and exit
- I want to complete TAC verification
- Codex Desktop frequently becomes unresponsive after updating to latest version on Windows
- Codex Crashes, Repeated Thinking Failures, and Unexpected 30% Usage Increase
- High CPU Usage Triggered by Windows Defender & WMI When Launching Codex Desktop on Windows 10
- Windows apply_patch can commit the target mutation but never return completion, making retry unsafe
- [Desktop App] Long-running tasks abort when the selected model reaches capacity
- SSH remote connection fails with "socket hang up" on Cloudways despite successful SSH and working codex-cli
- app-server v2: expose provider-reported response model, per-turn request count, and final token usage for interrupted turns
- codex exec: registered agent TOML model / model_reasoning_effort ignored — subagents inherit the parent model (0.144.5)
- response time out
- [Windows] Codex 26.715 enters a periodic ~15 s AppHang / ~10 s responsive cycle
- Regression: MultiAgentV2 child threads are read-only, preventing direct user correction and steering
- Codex Desktop 26.715: active Goal reverts from Full Access to on-request after account switch/resume
- Codex Security scan stalls at Mapping attack surface until the user sends another message
- Desktop Created Project not Synchronizing to Account and Desktop UI stop responding properly when in project.
- Allow disabling the built-in `update_plan` tool independently
- [Bug] Windows desktop flashes visible PowerShell window during background command monitoring
- [Windows App] Sandbox process outlives completed subagent and continues consuming memory
- /status command returns stale rate limit data on the first execution
- `--output-last-message` doesn't create parent dirs; write fails after the turn completes yet exits 0, silently losing the final message
- Windows: Register the new ChatGPT desktop app as a Copilot hardware key provider
- Desktop Add to task freeze can trigger duplicate submissions after task acceptance
- Weekly usage quota incorrectly shows 0% remaining for Business seat account
- Windows desktop app hangs immediately after launch after updating to 26.715.2305.0 (Application Hang 1002 / MoAppHang)
- Codex CLI session appears in ChatGPT Work instead of Codex history
- Cannot start a chat outside a project on an SSH-connected remote machine
- [Windows] App freezes: Work Louder/Codex Micro HID discovery blocks Electron main thread
- Windows command execution can hang indefinitely when descendant processes inherit stdout/stderr handles, causing agent turns to become stuck forever
- [macOS] Overlapping Appshots leave a full-screen transition overlay stuck because cancellation is not propagated
- Why is 5-hour session percentage in Weekly rate limit percentage? It's a bit unintuitive
- Add adjustable chat width in the Codex desktop app
- Codex Desktop: restore inline project expansion in the sidebar
- After finished prompt > Turn off pc, sleep or hibernate.
- [MacOS] app shows Free plan despite active Plus subscription
- Windows Codex freezes with UGREEN USB switch and recovers immediately when unplugged
- [Windows desktop] Links to HTML files provided by Codex open as static local files in internal browser
- [feat request] Cancel interruption
Resolved issues (38)
- Computer Use fails to initialize in Codex App on Windows + WSL
- Background terminal (unified_exec) exit while the session is idle never produces a follow-up turn — the completed task is silently ignored
- [macOS] Chrome/Browser plugin fails with `browser-client is not trusted` despite extension and native host checks passing
- Add separate tools (read, search, etc.) in Codex Windows App similar to macOS
- Codex does not use the browser or computer plugin in the main agent
- Windows: Severe UI lag and "Not Responding" after updating Codex Desktop to v26.707.72221
- Codex Web - Unable to clone my repository
- openai-docs can misreport Manual helper DNS failure despite working Docs MCP fallback
- False-positive cybersecurity block triggered by harmless CLI input
- [Windows App] Repeated serialport.node delay-load failures cause severe UI lag
- [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 x64: repeated background crash (0xC06D007F) in serialport.node causes UI freezes during normal use
- Windows ARM64 app crash-loops on launch — ChatGPT.exe exports no napi_* symbols, serialport addon dies with delay-load 0xC06D007F
- Windows Desktop: opening in-app Browser can hang/close Codex after Browser Use PiP failure
- Codex Desktop crashes or becomes unstable when the in-app browser is initialized - native serialport.node failure
- Incosistent usage drain limit weekly from 100% to 75% before hit max cap 5h hourly
- [Codex App][Chrome] Timed-out DOM evaluation leaves Chrome at 160–176% CPU for several minutes
- [macOS] Codex Desktop repeatedly steals foreground focus while tasks run in the background
- Windows setup cannot complete (UAC never appears)
- Homebrew codex-app cask is outdated after Codex.app was renamed to ChatGPT.app
- gpt-5.6-sol loses all MCP tools after runtime metadata changes to tool_mode = "direct"
- [Windows] Running an Environment Action navigates away from the current task while the command keeps running
- [App/iOS] Max reasoning effort missing for GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol on macOS
- Codex manual fetch fails after redirect because checksum header is only on the 308 response
- codex plugin crashes vscode, can't use the plugin
- GPT-5.6 Sol hides discovered MCP tools without exposing tool_search
- Codex Extension Hangs Indefinitely and Causes VS Code to Crash on Ubuntu
- Codex desktop pet causes periodic system-wide mouse input freezes while a task is running on Windows
- Codex Desktop for Windows — patch service hangs and performs no writes in a valid multi-repo workspace
- Untracked files are not under unstaged tab
- GPT-5.6-Sol lost access to create_thread tool after update
- Codex app thread-management tools are no longer exposed to agents after update
- [Codex app] Settings > Worktrees ignores custom git-worktree-root
- macOS: `codex app` ignores installed ChatGPT.app and creates duplicate Codex.app
- Codex Desktop compaction does not bound transcript hydration/rendering; valid long thread becomes unscrollable
- CLI: /agent lists active subagents but provides no thread selector
- Linux Codex users cannot access or redeem banked usage resets
- Windows: hook commands containing a quoted path break under cmd.exe (backslash-escaped quotes)