Digest / July 19, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 19, 2026
140 new issues filed ·
13 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (140)
- Statusbar option for hostname (codex cli)
- VS Code: Codex entry in Copilot "Local" chat dropdown silently no-ops (command not found), root cause AbsolutePathBuf deserialization failure — reproducible with WSL mode both on and off
- Windows restricted sandbox cannot apply_patch existing files: “cannot enforce split writable root sets directly”
- Windows desktop app renders blank page - root route "/" missing component
- Codex Desktop: automated agent/subagent runs each get a sidebar entry with no way to group or hide them
- Codex Spreadsheets missing load_workspace_dependencies
- [Konsole] Support pets in Konsole via kitty
- Codex App: expose “Continue in new task” (`/fork`) as a bindable keyboard shortcut
- TUI finalized assistant messages can render blank Markdown lines as two viewport rows
- [Context] Repeated auto-compaction degrades execution frontier and prevents convergence in long tasks
- Codex VS Code extension 0.145.x webview crash-loop causes perpetual loading spinner on Linux; 0.144.6 works
- `[Windows 10][Desktop app] Codex crash loop appears to leave DWM with ~33K handles, causing system-wide window-drag lag until session restart
- Windows regression: Chat / Quick Chat sidebar entry missing in Codex 26.715.12143
- [GPT-5.6 SOL MAX–generated diagnostics] Codex Micro intermittently freezes/disconnects while wired over USB
- False positive in development
- [Windows app] Plan approval controls disappear after revising proposed plan
- Projects Missing in the New ChatGPT/Code App
- VS Code extension: Codex panel hangs at logo forever in every window after the first — webview module-preload storm trips Chromium service-worker fetch limit ("insufficient resources")
- Explicit Microsoft Excel mentions create local spreadsheet files, while restricted permission modes route tasks through Node_Repl_JS instead of Shell
- Windows elevated sandbox cannot launch helper from long npm/WinGet path (os error 3)
- Windows: SecureLink process injection crashes Codex App host with 0xC0000005
- Windows: Image preview close button overlaps with the window close button
- IDE Extension: "Codex IPC socket is not owned by the current user" with multiple VS Code windows breaks the Codex panel (TOCTOU in socket ownership check)
- Plugin MCPs are disabled when plugin requirements contain no MCP allowlist
- Codex Work Still Pollutes Main ChatGPT History + No Account Switcher = Persistent User Frustration
- Mobile-first, accessible, provider-diverse Git repository integrations beyond GitHub
- Random Chinese text occasionally appears in scheduled heartbeat messages
- Guardian-approved unified exec drops canonical process identity and hides a live background wait
- Desktop app: add mobile-style response menu with model details and non-destructive retry history
- Windows desktop app repeatedly freezes after startup; main process memory spikes and Git subprocess calls stall
- [Chrome extension] False-positive site block for read-only mp.weixin.qq.com article
- Codex Windows crashes when opening @ ChatGPT conversations
- Windows Codex app freezes due to stuck Git subprocesses
- Its not opening after the update
- Preserve yielded Code Mode execution cells across native goal continuations
- An error appears when clicking a dialog box
- Running sudo codex can make ~/.codex root-owned and leave desktop app stuck on startup
- Bug: Task disappears after opening the sub-agent sidebar
- Windows power loss zero-fills config.toml and hangs desktop + VS Code Codex
- Windows: codex-cli 0.144.6 panics with chrono::offset::local::No such local time
- Git marketplace auto-upgrade loops for annotated tag refs
- Windows/WSL regression: projects show “No tasks” after update while tasks still exist
- Codex cli does not proactively call MCP server unless explicitly prompted
- Codex view resumes a task while its agent loop is shutting down, leaving the task unusable
- Branch switcher becomes unusable with a large number of changed files
- [Windows][Codex 26.715.4045.0] Page.captureScreenshot crashes GPU process after Code Integrity Event 3033 rejects bundled vk_swiftshader.dll
- Custom providers can show quota warnings from the local ChatGPT account
- Projects missing in new consolidated ChatGPT app
- Windows desktop app opens blank Work page instead of Codex project from web deep link
- GPT-5.6 rollout appears to break existing GPT-5.5 projects (authentication/model migration issue)
- Relax API key length and character validation for custom `responses-api-endpoint`
- Codex Desktop: unpinned active thread disappears in “By project” sidebar but remains searchable
- [Codex App] Cloud ChatGPT Projects fail to load chats because desktop requests limit=100 but API max is 50
- Windows app continuously reloads; Settings disappears and Codex workspace cannot load
- app-server: degraded broker catches SIGTERM then deadlocks on a futex (needs SIGKILL); healthy broker exits <1s
- Codex App: side conversation shows already-applied edits as pending Accept/Reject diffs
- Proposal: manifest-defined, permissioned app actions for custom Codex pets
- Proposal: manifest-defined, permissioned app actions for custom Codex pets
- Conversation interrupted - tell the model what to do differently.
- Codex Desktop macOS: pet expand button renders a black offset circular layer
- Allow tailscale development websites
- IDE Extension goes blank
- TUI: scroll-synced sticky header showing the user prompt for the currently-visible transcript region
- Codex extra caution with cybersecurity requests blocked my content
- Codex Desktop background/worktree tasks can report command success without a Host-observable command execution item
- Browser permission: allow all sites for the current task only
- macOS traffic-light window controls ignore clicks because title-bar drag region captures them
- TUI startup banner border wraps incorrectly in narrow terminals
- The withdrawn 258k context adjustment unexpectedly appeared on my end.
- "Request blocked" while working normally in a codex session
- Windows 10: Codex background process causes intermittent system-wide mouse stutter
- Codex works in browser but desktop app as well as cli fail to connect to account
- CLI /copy reports success but writes to devcontainer’s virtual X11 clipboard instead of VS Code host clipboard
- Codex Desktop Markdown preview renders a public GitHub image as a link instead of displaying it inline
- Withdrawn
- Allow hiding the pet button from the left-side quick actions bar
- [Windows app] “More details” Quick Chat ignores the saved model and submits with Auto
- Intel Mac menu bar dropdown items are not clickable
- spawn_agent model override description truncates valid catalog models to five
- 🩹 Outlook Email drafts collapse plain-text paragraphs while the connector accepts undocumented HTML
- [Windows Desktop] VS Code on a secondary drive is not detected; “Default app” opens it with a generic name/icon
- [ChatGPT Atlas] GitHub "Connect now" flow in Codex briefly opens a blank view, then closes
- Remove the pet feature from Codex
- Windows Codex Desktop: internal apply_patch stalls indefinitely across projects while ordinary exec commands work
- Installing ChatGPT extension in VS Code causes auxiliary editor windows to stop restoring correctly in a workspace
- Codex Desktop leaks internal stream/protocol text and garbled multilingual fragments into interactive replies
- Codex Desktop fails to render legacy-mode thread histories that are fully intact on disk (post-migration-0040)
- Usage is gone in one prompt
- no biscuit no service when Codex Apps mcp try to load
- Codex Desktop leaves orphaned agent-browser headless Chrome processes consuming ~400% CPU
- Windows Desktop 26.715.31925: elevated sandbox cannot start shell; unelevated starts but has write/arg0 failures
- Codex Desktop Windows: unapproved recovery forks one task into multiple active threads
- macOS desktop 26.715.31925: window flickers and rejects all input under workspace personal-access-token auth — composer remounts ~9x/s, Statsig "no userID" spam, models fetch 401 despite valid token
- Windows Desktop changes an existing Ask for approval task from on-request to granular mid-session
- Windows Desktop replaces healthy local Codex sidebar with ChatGPT shell when /wham/tasks/list returns 503
- Codex in VSCode never loads
- Unexpected approval prompt for writes inside workspace with workspace-write
- Codex Desktop: add a bulk action to switch existing tasks to a new model
- Codex panel frequently fails to load — blank or stuck on logo, then VS Code hangs until unresponsive (macOS, Apple Silicon)
- Suspend and auto-resume at usage-limit reset instead of stopping the session
- AGENTS.md is loaded but not reliably followed in the unified desktop experience
- Bring back the 5-hour rate limit system for Codex (Plus and Business Seat)
- Codex Web App fails to attach a valid Markdown (.md) file to the prompt.
- [Windows] Plus account forced into Work-only mode; Codex and Projects hidden despite successful auth
- Deduplicate AGENTS.md when CODEX_HOME is also the project root
- Codex Desktop reads MCP App resources before thread/resume when reopening a task
- [Windows app] Codex consumes Google Chrome UserDataDir policy and opens Chrome profile picker
- Small UX suggestion: jump to the beginning of the current message
- Windows: apply_patch.bat fails for non-ASCII user profiles because UTF-8 wrapper is parsed using the legacy code page
- /agent lists subagents but no longer opens the interactive thread switcher
- Codex Mobile Remote: add a workspace file editor for connected hosts
- Codex Security sidebar and side chat fight for ownership, causing focus loop and React #185
- Ubuntu bwrap failure causes excessive permission prompts for every read-only command
- macOS ChatGPT apps do not synchronize conversations and projects
- Stream disconnects and errors running remote compact task
- apply_patch deletes a file when Move to matches the source
- New Chat GPT Desktop app has accessibility issues including Jaws (screen reader for the blind) not reading chat names in history, and not treating new messages as headings users can easily navigate to
- Dual sessions branching from a single session after another session sends a message to it
- App crashes with V8 OOM in "git" worker thread during long computer-use sessions
- PathUri misclassifies percent-encoded Windows drive URIs as POSIX
- Goal mode cannot increase its token budget and resume after becoming budget_limited
- Flickering / Glitching On Startup
- Resumed subagent loses completed status after app-server restart
- macOS Dock icon renders red/maroon halo in transparent area on some display profiles
- 💥💥💥 Starting from 2026-July-12, Codex performance dropped 3X ❗️❗️❗️❗️ (Daily data compilation)
- Windows pet overlay hit region desynchronizes from the visible mascot over time
- [Windows App 26.715.4045.0] Benign process-lifecycle design review ends in cyber_policy and "Task encountered a system error"
- VS Code Webview fails to load because the ChatGPT extension preloads up to 676 JS/CSS assets concurrently
- Defensive vulnerability-writeup workers trigger repeated cybersecurity false positive
- Codex prints secrets from config files despite explicit AGENTS.md redaction instructions
- Bad TUI on vertical screens
- Codex App: TAC(Trusted Access for Cyber) cannot be started, cybersecurity-risk block is sticky
- GPT-5.6 instruction template identifies the model only as GPT-5
- Codex App shows Handed off to local while thread remains attached to Worktree
- [Windows desktop] Closing in-app Browser tab silently terminates Codex during WebView teardown
- v2 pet look-direction rows (9-10) never activate — pet does not look toward cursor (feature-gated?)
- Strange reference to pasting images from the clipboard.
- [Windows App] Existing conversation fails with HTTP 422 and GPT-5.6 Sol picker renders “High High”
- [Bug] Windows Desktop 26.715.4045 freezes during bundled-plugin reconcile; plugin/list blocks for ~61s
- Malformed tool-call caused reasoning to leak, and steered model, could enable malicious subversion
Resolved issues (13)
- Windows restricted sandbox cannot apply_patch existing files: “cannot enforce split writable root sets directly”
- `[Windows 10][Desktop app] Codex crash loop appears to leave DWM with ~33K handles, causing system-wide window-drag lag until session restart
- Windows desktop app repeatedly freezes after startup; main process memory spikes and Git subprocess calls stall
- Its not opening after the update
- Codex view resumes a task while its agent loop is shutting down, leaving the task unusable
- Gmail plugin is enabled, but connector tools are not exposed in Codex CLI
- GPT-5.6 rollout appears to break existing GPT-5.5 projects (authentication/model migration issue)
- Proposal: manifest-defined, permissioned app actions for custom Codex pets
- Withdrawn
- macOS: Dock restore animation stutters while WindowServer logs Invalid window
- /agent lists subagents but no longer opens the interactive thread switcher
- macOS ChatGPT apps do not synchronize conversations and projects
- Approved `decision = "prompt"` command remains inside Linux sandbox on remote SSH host