Digest / July 18, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 18, 2026
136 new issues filed ·
27 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (136)
- App Crashes when uploading image asset
- Codex app duplicates words and phrases throughout assistant responses
- Codex blocks an authorized remote GPU training workflow for a Personal Plus user despite previously allowing the same destination
- [Windows] Per-thread last activity timestamps disappeared from the Codex sidebar
- Windows: Repeated codex.exe crashes with exception 0xC0000409 and generated crash dumps
- Suggestion: Add a Platform-Level “Project Intelligence Radar” Capability to Codex
- Providing the number of auto-compact in status line
- Windows: opening Codex causes sustained WMI Provider Host CPU usage and system stutter
- Random disappearance of usage limit reset tokens
- Unified desktop app: Chat cannot reference Work tasks in the same Project
- Add project- and task-aware lazy skill routing before prompt injection
- [Windows] Multiple Codex tasks duplicate MCP processes and cause system-wide input lag
- Codex Desktop: `thread_tools` gate does not restore task tools after re-enable
- Feature Request: Real-Time Multi-Device Session Continuity for ChatGPT & Codex
- codex Windows desktop app chat accepts messages but assistant never responds
- Official LinkedIn plugin fails with 403 “IP not authorized,” then “Failed to fetch template”
- Support the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless protocol for stdio servers
- Add a keyboard shortcut to jump to next task requiring something (blue dot or input required)
- Codex mobile cannot resume a blocked goal
- Add distinct ToolError variant for user-declined approvals
- Track remaining PathUri migration across shell/tools subsystems
- Codex Desktop: thread/resume can return a thread while Shutdown is pending, leaving a dead agent loop
- Windows: Browser and Computer Use runtimes create kernel.js but node.exe gets ACCESS_DENIED, surfaced as MODULE_NOT_FOUND
- Windows: `/app` command fails to launch Codex Desktop from MSIX installation (Access Denied)
- False positive - cybersecurity block
- Windows sandbox initialization fails with helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors after upgrading from 0.143.x to 0.144.5
- Windows Desktop does not surface a healthy WSL stdio MCP server
- Codex Live: Duplex voice collaboration with an active Codex session
- ChatGPT for Windows cannot complete setup or enter limited-access mode
- Codex VS Code sidebar intermittently hangs on the logo or renders blank on Linux/Wayland
- ChatGPT.app Codex relay returns 403 'invalid or disabled credential' after v26.715.31925 update
- Possible unexpected consumption of a stored usage-limit reset after free reset
- Show a structured risk-and-impact report before native authorization prompts
- Long Codex task becomes permanently "Request blocked" after successful completion
- Feature request: Allow switching sandbox/approval mode within an active session
- "Error: turn/start failed in TUI"
- Codex App [bug]: on MacOS, Control+B toggles sidebar while typing in Quick Chat
- [VS Code Extension] IDE Context automatically disables after 3 seconds in version 26.5715.31925
- Codex Desktop macOS: issuer-bound Host carrier observation for occupancy snapshots
- no-active-thread-019f746b-17c7-7e41-b376-2536056757e2
- Codex App 26.715.3651.0 crashes immediately on startup with exit code 0xC0000005 on Windows 10
- Non-dangerous actions trigger the safety check.
- Chrome control bridge is not injected into new Codex App tasks on Windows
- [VS Code] Opening Codex sidebar terminates renderer on Ubuntu 26.04 / VS Code 1.129.0
- unified-exec exec_command: Bash PreToolUse tool_input drops the honored per-call workdir, so hooks cannot attribute the execution root
- A series of 4 mistakes
- macOS app: pasted clipboard images remain stuck loading after send
- macOS app: no transcription progress indicator after dictation stops
- macOS app: no transcription progress indicator after dictation stops
- Codex VS Code extension stuck on logo / blank grey webview with overlapping app-servers after extension update (Linux)
- Hooks don't work in Codex Desktop (internal error `ApiIdParam`)
- Dynamic tool calls can emit item/started without item/completed when a turn is interrupted
- Codex Security scan becomes uncloseable if temp artifacts disappear after completion
- `--profile` does not override installed plugin enabled state
- Windows Desktop: concurrent reasoning summaries correlate with ResizeObserver loops and UI freezes
- Windows ARM64 Codex Desktop frequently exits/restarts while using a WSL workspace
- Please show conversation title in window title bar
- Codex Desktop repeatedly routes to wait(noop) without a running exec cell, causing tool-call loops and stalled subagents
- Windows sandbox helper fails when patching an existing file
- Built-in Agent subsystem enters a runaway loop, repeatedly running taskkill and launching conhost.exe, maxing out the CPU
- Feature request: support .codex/rules/ directory with path-scoped conditional loading (like Claude Code's .claude/rules/)
- Codex desktop task becomes unrenderable after multi-gigabyte file-change history
- Pasting code snippets (especially diffs) now converts it to markdown, which completely messes up the text.
- macOS Desktop: main thread spawns git ~50/s — uncached core.fsmonitor probe + per-file untracked diffs in repos with large untracked dirs
- [Bug] Chrome Browser Use blocks DOM reads for explicitly allowed WeCom documentation URLs
- Approve for me now denies everything
- Linux sandbox fails on Unraid rootfs: `bwrap: pivot_root: Invalid argument`
- [macOS] Mac-to-Mac Remote Control fails with “Opening handshake has timed out” while iPhone connects successfully
- GPT-5.6 Sol: apparent prior-turn context loss before compaction in Codex Desktop
- [Windows] Pet activity badge becomes unclickable after being moved to bottom-right
- Windows sandbox helpers race while updating deny_read_acl_state.json
- Standalone Windows app triggers WMI Provider Host (90–100% CPU) when opening one project, while the same project works normally in the VS Code extension
- GPT-5.6 Sol Pro in Chat mode reverting to Instant-level routing or reasoning budget
- Windows Computer Use can pair lock-screen pixels with target-app accessibility state
- Context overflow permanently bricks a conversation; /compact and follow-up messages keep failing
- Windows Desktop: custom stdio MCP tools pass discovery but are not exposed to Codex task tool surface
- Feedback uploaded from Codex thread 019f7566-0d06-7b71-bc7d-173ee2bfea31
- Unified desktop app is missing a Codex Light icon option
- New message queue request is ignored
- Teach /init to generate a repo brief with commands and validation steps
- Codex Desktop on Windows overflows screen bounds on multi-monitor 200% DPI setup
- Regression: luna cannot be specified in spawn_agent tool model anymore, e.g. for Explorer
- [Windows][26.715.3651.0] Cold launch spawns 300+ taskkill.exe/conhost.exe and freezes the whole PC
- Windows Desktop 26.715.4045.0: completed threads remain “thinking”; new messages queue locally and cannot start a turn
- The 'gpt-5.6-sol' model is not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account.
- Feature request: Windows-to-Windows Codex Remote Control
- Garbled terminal input
- Updating Codex in PowerShell 7 always reports an error
- GPT-5.6 missing from ChatGPT Classic model picker after 1.2026.184 update
- codex remote seems to be crashing my session
- Terra and luna stop their turn without doing anything
- Two parallel threads running with the same thread id
- Make the temporary removal of the 5-hour usage limit permanent
- Codex Resets Access Mode Back to Full Access Mode After Update
- In-process app-server drops AgentMessageDelta under backpressure, truncating TUI output
- Computer Use is unusable in `codex-cli 0.145.0-alpha.18`: `js_repl` removed while `computer_use` still marked `stable`
- Codex IDE extension does not initialize when opening the first project in Positron on Ubuntu 24.04
- apply_patch: seek_sequence ignores its documented EOF fallback, failing valid "*** End of File" hunks
- [Feature Request] Bring Atlas-grade browser features to Codex Desktop
- Parent session waits indefinitely after resume because subagents remain paused
- "No Guesses Found" for any English words on Codex for Windows app
- Codex Pull Requests reports GitHub CLI as not installed although gh is installed and authenticated
- Intel Mac desktop app titlebar toolbar controls are obscured
- [Windows App] Repeated PowerShell process creation leads to a system-wide hard freeze after 20–25 minutes
- Codex Quick Chat does not consistently receive live conversation updates from other clients
- "Take Screenshot" functionality taken away in Codex and ChatGPT Work/Chat
- Allow configuring retry policy and honor `Retry-After` for TPM rate limits in Codex
- Skill read labels lose skill names for symlink and alias paths
- Codex Desktop profile permanently undercounts skill/plugin usage and labels skills as plugins
- Duplicate / double processing, diverging Codex sessions for the same chat mobile <-> desktop
- [Feature Request] Add in-conversation message previews and quick navigation to ChatGPT chats
- Bad Results
- Approved `decision = "prompt"` command remains inside Linux sandbox on remote SSH host
- Assistant issued tornado shelter guidance before mapping the user to the warning area
- Insane Codex Disk Usage from Subagents
- Windows elevated sandbox can stall for minutes loading a user profile per command
- Codex Desktop reports completion while a Bun descendant tree survives and respawns for 63 minutes on macOS
- 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Starting from 2026-07-13 , Codex's (to Server) response speed dropped threefold ( ⬇️ 3X). 🔥🔥🔥
- Codex constantly hung with (Not Responding)
- Weekly Codex limit exhausted immediately after purchasing Plus; usage attribution is unclear
- Conversation interrupted during a resume
- Browser plugin is uninstalled and reinstalled during app startup
- Codex Windows App uses hardcoded %USERPROFILE%\.codex path — ignores CODEX_DIR / CODEX_HOME env vars
- Composer's Rich Text support is broken in many ways, but it cannot be disabled
- IDE Extension: add selected Markdown preview content to Codex thread
- Add a configurable shortcut to cycle permission modes (Claude Code-style Shift+Tab)
- BlockingLruCache panics inside Tokio current-thread runtimes
- extract_paths_from_patch splits unquoted Git paths containing spaces
- Codex desktop loses local project registrations and hides active threads while CLI/core database remains healthy
- Bug macOS: Heavy Memory Usage + Codex.app repeatedly asks “would like to access data from other apps”
- Support for a Chinese Interface / Chinese UI Support
- Add setting to disable the auto-resolve in 60 seconds for questions
- Build Week feedback: documented agent efficiency benchmark from a public project
- unable to code review a segmentation fault
- 🔥🔥🔥 Codex intermittently loses external drive write permission while running 🔥🔥🔥
- [macOS] Desktop app crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS in Codex Framework V8 path
Resolved issues (27)
- Long-running goal is incorrectly marked as blocked after a sub-agent triggers the cybersecurity safety filter
- Windows desktop app hangs immediately after launch after updating to 26.715.2305.0 (Application Hang 1002 / MoAppHang)
- [MacOS] app shows Free plan despite active Plus subscription
- Why is 5-hour session percentage in Weekly rate limit percentage? It's a bit unintuitive
- Weekly usage quota incorrectly shows 0% remaining for Business seat account
- Windows: opening Codex causes sustained WMI Provider Host CPU usage and system stutter
- Request to restore user-controlled Custom Subagent / Agent Orchestration capabilities
- Full access not available when Sol Ultra is selected
- Feature request: Allow switching sandbox/approval mode within an active session
- macOS app: no transcription progress indicator after dictation stops
- When Codex executes **apply_patch** will error:■ stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- Windows ARM64 Codex Desktop frequently exits/restarts while using a WSL workspace
- [macOS] Mac-to-Mac Remote Control fails with “Opening handshake has timed out” while iPhone connects successfully
- The 'gpt-5.6-sol' model is not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account.
- Codex desktop task becomes unrenderable after multi-gigabyte file-change history
- /agent no longer allows agent thread switching
- Command /subagents does not show the interactive sub-agent thread picker
- `/model picker omits GPT-5.6 models despite catalog visibility and successful explicit selection`
- TUI /subagents does not show picker when working on tasks (Ultra mode)
- Context overflow permanently bricks a conversation; /compact and follow-up messages keep failing
- CLI: Add /edit command to edit a prompt in an editor
- Codex Desktop automation_update can false-succeed without owner-host persistence or readback
- "No Guesses Found" for any English words on Codex for Windows app
- Codex Pull Requests reports GitHub CLI as not installed although gh is installed and authenticated
- Codex Desktop sidebar rendering corrupts on Linux Mint/X11 after scroll/hover unless GPU compositing is disabled
- Browser plugin is uninstalled and reinstalled during app startup
- Possible unexpected consumption of a stored usage-limit reset after free reset