Digest / July 20, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 20, 2026
138 new issues filed ·
23 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (138)
- codex-cli 0.144.6 gpt-5.6-luna max drained 30% of monthly limit in <5min
- gpt-5.3-codex-spark is incorrectly advertised as supporting reasoning summaries, causing persistent HTTP 400 errors
- Goal auto-continuation can enter an unbounded no-progress loop and generate thousands of duplicate turns
- Banked Full Reset cannot be redeemed: “Couldn't reset usage. Please try again”
- PDF viewer problem
- Windows native 26.715: chat resume launches retained MCP stacks, including disabled/unlisted plugins
- Desktop approval prompts repeatedly reappear despite approving reusable command prefixes
- Codex Desktop on Windows requires local app interaction before mobile remote task can open again
- Remote-created tasks disappear from Android list and Windows ChatGPT Desktop after restart
- macOS Desktop 26.715.31925: model selector disappears and prompts stop sending after switching between 2-3 chats
- Codex Security plugin: cybersecurity filter blocks output *after* the full run, consuming quota with no result
- Security vulnerability: Codex answered my question using someone else's answer.
- Security vulnerability: Codex answered my question using someone else's answer.
- Windows Desktop: unbounded taskkill.exe/conhost.exe cleanup storm exhausts WMI
- `-c` overrides: dotted-path parser has no TOML quoted-key support, so `projects."/path".trust_level` is silently misapplied
- "request timed out" after I upgrade Codex Windows
- macOS Desktop: Browser/node_repl tools are not provisioned to Remote SSH tasks
- Windows app leaves PowerShell child processes running after an unbounded recursive scan
- [Windows] Smart App Control repeatedly blocks unsigned Chrome extension-host.exe bundled with Codex Desktop
- [Bug] Windows desktop app flashes visible console windows for internal git/taskkill children, even while idle
- [ChatGPT for Chrome] macOS repeatedly blocks Pillow _imaging module during PDF generation
- Multi-agent V2 full-history forks duplicate historical compaction snapshots and inline images, causing >100 GiB session storage growth
- Disabled plugin's cached MCP server still starts and hangs TUI startup indefinitely (openai-developers / openai-api-key-local-confirmation, no MCP startup timeout)
- Spreadsheets plugin enabled, but load_workspace_dependencies missing in Codex CLI
- Windows ChatGPT Desktop 26.715.x cannot send messages after July 18 update, previous Codex conversations become empty, "unknown conversation" in logs
- Allow more than 8 projects to display in the UI
- Flickering unresponsive Macbook desktop APP
- Weekly Codex limit exhausted after minimal usage
- Corrupted deny_read_acl_state.json causes persistent "apply deny-read ACLs" sandbox failures
- ChatGPT/Codex App 26.715.4045.0 exits silently seconds after launch after a clean reset; Beta works
- [Feature Request] Per-thread Auto mode that routes both model and reasoning effort
- Allow switching away from active CLI sessions while their turns keep running
- Settings panel flickers due to conditional button rendering and collapsed quota section
- Rollout trace reducer panics when truncating non-ASCII JSON summaries
- Codex App review session inserts invalid message id review_rollout_user
- Removed marketplace namespace is incorrectly applied to personal and built-in skills
- Duplicate browser title
- High idle CPU (~45-50%), 15-20W power draw and sustained thermal load on Apple Silicon due to ChatGPT main process activity
- macOS 26.715.52143: Arabic RTL is still broken and text remains left-aligned. The left sidebar for folders, projects, and chats also scrolls with noticeable lag, stuttering, and brief freezes compared with the smooth web experience.
- Built-in review can recursively launch codex review through an inherited local skill
- Hooks: PostToolUse payload carries no failure signal, and PostToolUseFailure never fires
- Intermittent multi-minute apply_patch hangs on Codex Desktop for Windows
- logs_2.sqlite: rmcp::service TRACE rows (~1.3 MB ListToolsResult dumps) bypass the noisy-target filter — 50-68 MB/day with a large MCP catalog
- Windows ARM64 UI freezes caused by synchronous Codex Micro HID discovery
- [Windows][unelevated sandbox] apply_patch consistently fails with Access Denied while PowerShell writes succeed
- Desktop: codex_app__* dynamic tool dispatch starves while an unrelated remote SSH host is mid-reconnect (calls hang forever, no timeout)
- AppShots not working on MacOS Desktop App
- Unify approval and sandbox policy decisions to reduce security drift
- Split app-server EventMsg handling into mapping and side-effect handlers
- Windows Desktop 26.715.31925 continuously flickers on Work page after update
- Chats can't be started in Projects (only as Work), or moved to Projects (only Work can)
- GPT Sol and Terra threads cannot spawn Luna subagents because of Luna Multi Agent version
- Windows desktop app leaves stuck `taskkill.exe` and `conhost.exe` processes, causing system-wide UI delays
- Auto-scroll follows generated text instead of keeping the beginning of the response visible
- Codex Desktop MCP app widgets deny microphone access despite declared permission
- Windows Desktop 26.715.4045 repeatedly becomes unresponsive (MoAppHang) after memory spikes
- This content can't be shown We take extra caution with cybersecurity requests.
- Codex App crashes when internal Git worker runs out of memory on a large staged change set
- Codex VS Code extension silently hangs when VS Code is launched through the packaged Linux desktop entry
- [Windows] Pets cannot be dragged in Codex 26.715.4045, including default pet
- Add flag in codex settings to disable autoResolutionMs permanently
- Windows app: package repeatedly enters NeedsRemediation state - crash 0xc06d007f when using sidebar browser (Chrome)
- Falling back from WebSockets to HTTPS transport
- Windows elevated sandbox trusts stale setup marker after firewall setup failure and skips reprovisioning
- How can I use codex/ccmax when my company banned the Windows powershell？
- Missing support for press-and-hold keyboard input (keyDown to keyUp) on macOS Computer Use
- Account menu shifts after “Invite a friend” loads, causing accidental “Show pet” clicks
- VS Code Codex extension on Windows adds ~19s delay to trivial commands
- PingFangSC-Regular renders as tofu at font-weight 400 on macOS 26.5.2
- Entire workflow turned upside down
- codex plugin list reports installed, enabled for a plugin whose plugins/cache payload is missing, and the model sees none of its skills
- Serious auto-compact bug: agent repeatedly enters a resume loop after conversation optimization.
- weekly reset used but usage didnt increase
- Show recoverable task state when a parent error still has active descendants
- CLI Agent hangs indefinitely ("Working...") on formatting/verification commands
- Allow `codex app` to attach an existing worktree to its repository project
- [Windows App] Severe UI freezes correlate with Codex Micro HID/serial module; disabling it removes the hangs
- Allow repo-committed skills to be opt-in per contributor (default-off, like Claude Code's @skills-dir + enabledPlugins)
- Maxim
- Codex local state/trace surfaces overlap RFL's USPTO-filed state architecture: July 11 post-fix records and SQ67 receipt mitigation
- [Windows][Codex App] Path-bound deletion of ignored cache directories is rejected with a generic policy block under danger-full-access
- Fresh thread forks retain inherited open-turn markers and cannot establish one active turn
- Windows pet activity pill: completed checkmark is not centered
- plugin-creator validator rejects valid hook manifests and optional metadata
- [Windows] In-app browser device preview toolbar closes when Browser Use returns control
- This content can't be shown We take extra caution with cybersecurity requests.
- Follow-up to rollout compression: default zstd misses distant history copies (1.64x vs 21.98x)
- Show a visible processing state while voice transcription is in progress
- Codex Desktop: slash-command picker is invisible to NVDA on Windows
- Windows: system-wide mouse cursor flicker after turn completes; fixed only by restarting dwm.exe
- [VS Code] New Codex Agent remains bound to a stale selected-project instead of the current workspace
- no-active-thread-019f7fb5-8861-70f0-8dce-8d4a382d4e42
- "Quick Chat" command and keybinding disappear when the sidebar is collapsed
- Feature Request: Allow users to completely disable Pets and remove the "Show Pet" menu entry
- Windows 11 Insider Build 26200: ChatGPT Desktop continuously flickers before login, renderer remains alive (OpenAI.Codex 26.715.7063.0)
- “Continue in worktree” creates a worktree, but Codex keeps working in the original checkout
- `experimentalRawEvents` cannot be enabled on `thread/resume` / `thread/fork`, so raw-event mirroring permanently breaks after any resume
- NXTG Quality Gate: Suspected Codex Cyber-Safety False Positive
- Proposal: AI Native Workspace Command Layer for Codex CLI
- Codex CLI hangs if I close MacBook lid
- Weekly Limit Reached - 100% Usage left
- Removed
- App not usable
- Approval dialog hides original pipeline and shows only one parsed segment
- Request blocked constantly
- Windows Codex app and VS Code extension hang after migration with legacy .codex; renaming .codex restores both clients
- Subagents ignore requested medium reasoning effort and run at high
- Codex Chrome plugin bootstrap fails: Cannot redefine property: process
- [App]: Preload project and PR context before the first message in a new task
- [macOS][Desktop 26.715.52143] Sidebar hover/click freezes UI for 3–10s in recursive FSEvents watcher teardown
- Allow direct conversation with a subagent thread without interrupting the parent thread
- [Bug] Windows: personal plugin is invocable but remains “not installed” in CLI and is missing from Desktop UI
- Add an explicit Smart Mode for automatic model and reasoning-effort selection
- Usage limit reset does not work
- Codex Remote: allow downloading workspace files to the local machine
- GPT-5.6 Sol entered a repetitive agent loop and consumed ~80% of a freshly reset usage allowance
- `codex exec` hangs indefinitely — `codex_models_manager` logs "timeout waiting for child process to exit", no error surfaced, no recovery
- spawn_agent model allowlist omits gpt-5.6-luna
- Codex Desktop deep links silently fail for existing SSH remote tasks
- [Rate limits] 5-hour usage window missing from /status on ChatGPT Plus
- Why store=true only for Azure OpenAI in Codex CLI?
- Claude Code qwen2.5-coder:14b agent bug
- Windows setup keeps failing in ChatGPT Desktop / Codex
- Codex app-server retains stdio MCP process pairs after task/thread teardown on 0.145.0-alpha.18
- [macOS] Bundled plugin installation fails: spawn ditto ENOENT
- Resolved: VPS configuration issue (not a Codex bug)
- Excessive GPU usage in ChatGPT Desktop on macOS when “Transparent sidebar” is enabled
- Codex Desktop collapses a completed answer after blocking Stop-hook feedback
- [Codex App] Computer Use times out when accessing Apple Mail while Finder works
- ChatGPT Android/Web dictation repeatedly fails after ~60 seconds and Retry cannot recover the recording
- Smart Snapshot shortcut does not work on ChatGPT macOS app 26.715.52143
- ChatGPT Android/Web dictation repeatedly fails after ~60 seconds and Retry cannot recover the recording
- CLI TUI: U+0040 in scoped npm package names can hide responses and appear to rewind transcript
- Feature request: support subscription-backed @codex on GitHub Issues
- git and deployment bloat / drift
- [MCP][Regression] Linear OAuth fails pre-flow with “No authorization support detected” on Codex CLI 0.144.4 and 0.144.6
- compact_prompt is loaded but ignored for OpenAI remote compaction
- Desktop: add an “always expanded” option for progress and reasoning activity
Resolved issues (23)
- Small UX suggestion: jump to the beginning of the current message
- Desktop approval prompts repeatedly reappear despite approving reusable command prefixes
- Add setting to disable the auto-resolve in 60 seconds for questions
- Security vulnerability: Codex answered my question using someone else's answer.
- Installing ChatGPT extension in VS Code causes auxiliary editor windows to stop restoring correctly in a workspace
- "request timed out" after I upgrade Codex Windows
- Codex Desktop on Windows requires local app interaction before mobile remote task can open again
- Disabled plugin's cached MCP server still starts and hangs TUI startup indefinitely (openai-developers / openai-api-key-local-confirmation, no MCP startup timeout)
- Chrome plugin crashes before browser discovery with “Cannot redefine property: process”
- Workspace explorer should automatically switch when changing project/thread
- Codex Desktop 26.623.101652: Git UI missing despite repo detected by doctor
- Falling back from WebSockets to HTTPS transport
- Removed
- `experimentalRawEvents` cannot be enabled on `thread/resume` / `thread/fork`, so raw-event mirroring permanently breaks after any resume
- [Windows] Codex 26.715 enters a periodic ~15 s AppHang / ~10 s responsive cycle
- SessionStart "compact" hooks are deferred to later turns, causing missing post-compact context and context pollution
- spawn_agent model allowlist omits gpt-5.6-luna
- Windows setup keeps failing in ChatGPT Desktop / Codex
- Codex app-server retains stdio MCP process pairs after task/thread teardown on 0.145.0-alpha.18
- Resolved: VPS configuration issue (not a Codex bug)
- ChatGPT Android/Web dictation repeatedly fails after ~60 seconds and Retry cannot recover the recording
- Desktop: add an “always expanded” option for progress and reasoning activity
- Allow switching away from active CLI sessions while their turns keep running