Digest / July 25, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 25, 2026
133 new issues filed ·
17 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (133)
- Files generated in ChatGPT desktop app conversations cannot be downloaded
- Codex App reconciles bundled plugins twice per startup, rewriting marketplace and reinstalling browser/chrome
- macOS Desktop resource retention returns after restart: app-server/renderers/helpers/log churn and system lag
- UUnable to add existing chats to a project
- Add an "Implement with changes" choice for plan mode without Codex re-proposing the entire plan
- Windows Desktop composer input lags with 70 GB of active rollout histories (mostly subagent sessions)
- [Windows CLI 0.145.0] fatal `memory allocation of 766053888 bytes failed` while packaging 100 PNG files
- Feature request: add codex config check for deterministic effective-config validation
- Gmail connector schema/runtime mismatch on Windows causes attachment_files calls to fail during argument binding
- Desktop app crashes when opening a specific thread; replacing the entire session JSONL does not resolve it
- ChatGPT app freezes on large threads when switching window focus
- Codex App: distinguish non-delegable consent from permissions and resume workflows automatically
- [macOS x86_64] Microphone prompt blocked by TCC: CS_PLATFORM_BINARY set but not AppleSigned
- Codex Desktop: agent handoff tool lacks parity with the Handoff UI
- Crashing Codex and unable to open again until repair
- Codex plugin for Antigravity IDE stopped showing diff
- TUI: input buffered during a fork replays against the new thread, chain-forking once per queued Esc-Esc-Enter gesture
- Hover sidebar opens unexpectedly when ChatGPT is not the active window
- Codex Desktop crashes conversation UI after repeated desktop notification errors
- CLI -c override is ignored for installed plugin enabled state and plugin-provided MCP servers
- Windows Store Codex enters "Modified, NeedsRemediation" after opening any webpage and becomes unlaunchable
- TUI: Up-arrow enters cross-session history before recalling the first prompt in a new session
- [TUI 0.145.0] Esc-Esc Edit/Resume changes gpt-5.6-sol Ultra to xhigh
- [FR] Dynamic LoRA / Modular Knowledge Adapters API for websites, datasets and github repositories
- [Rate limits] Windows Desktop 26.721.4979: weekly usage fell from 16% to 3% remaining overnight with no local Codex token events
- Persistent app-server and pid-update-loop disappear without restart, leaving stale daemon state on Linux
- Codex Desktop can enter a permanent startup crash loop after creating a project, hiding local history
- Gmail plugin corrupts local image attachments via raw MIME base64_url_content and lacks file-path attachment API
- Android Remote reconnect removes Notion/codex_apps tools from resumed chat; full Codex restart restores them
- CLI TUI: Clearly distinguish user prompts from Codex responses
- GPT-5.6 prompt caching: Codex cannot emit `prompt_cache_breakpoint`, preventing reuse of stable startup prefixes
- Windows desktop app launches visible PowerShell windows and interrupts voice dictation
- Codex app: stale unread marker on collapsed project
- Arabic with English words: Outputs
- VS Code extension drops turn-scoped items and recent chat history during active thread
- Codex Desktop model picker shows two indistinguishable GPT-5.6 Luna entries
- No trust prompt for project-level hooks causes SessionStart hooks to be silently skipped
- Codex Desktop routed a prompt into the wrong project task after context compaction
- [macOS Desktop 26.721.41059] Persistent SQLite TRACE churn remains in bundled 0.146.0-alpha.3.1
- Codex CLI composer background intermittently missing over SSH due to 100 ms OSC 10/11 probe timeout
- Desktop: full-CDP silently disabled when CODEX_HOME is a symlink
- [Windows][26.721.4979.0] In-app Browser incident during Microsoft Store update-log lookup: startup crash loop, package remediation, and persistent deep-control timeouts
- Please support Everything search; rg is currently too slow and tends to freeze
- [Windows App][Remote SSH] Ultra chat selection silently downgrades the remote config.toml default
- [Windows ARM64] First Codex launch after PC shutdown repeatedly stalls the entire desktop
- Unable to initiate or continue new or existing chats ChatGPT App. Complete service outage
- unexpected status 503 Service Unavailable
- [Windows] Store app self-uninstalls (~60s after launch) - package removed in user context, disappears from Installed Apps
- chatgpt server die
- MCP startup failed
- We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- CHAT UNAVAILABLE
- ■ unexpected status 503 Service Unavailable: Service Unavailable, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a20a1a2a6a40b74c-LAX, auth error: 503, auth error code: biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open
- Codex CLI Falling back from WebSockets to HTTPS transport
- Codex CLI Down
- Conversation interrupted
- Codex crashed
- MCP OAuth: persist_if_needed() overwrites the stored refresh_token with the provider's partial refresh response
- Codex/OpenAI currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- [Bug / Reliability] App unable to process requests / Auth 503 errors during server degradation
- Codex App worktree creation resets dirty source checkout without confirmation or recovery snapshot
- After sending an image in a Codex CLI conversation, all subsequent requests fail with a JSON deserialization error, leaving the conversation completely stuck.
- Feature request: Filter and paginate Codex tasks in the thread list API
- VS Code /ide shows IDE context enabled but sends no active file or selection
- The encrypted content for item cmp_34....b7bd could not be verified
- Windows Codex CLI loses terminal scrollback history after long responses
- PLEASE FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY
- Windows Codex App task receives environment_context but no terminal execution tool
- Codex Desktop Ctrl+K task search can miss known tasks by visible numeric/content terms
- Codex Remote on Windows cannot browse drives other than C: or follow junctions
- Desktop app: add saved model/reasoning presets with assignable hotkeys
- Codex CLI 0.145.0 on Windows: silent process termination on code-mode functions.exec with nested shell_command calls
- fix(install.ps1): Enable TLS 1.2 for Windows PowerShell 5.1 compatibility
- Feature request: make /pet a first-class companion command drawer
- MCP OAuth: shared brokered token state goes stale across devices; surfaces as `-32603 Internal error` on every tool call instead of a re-auth prompt
- MCP sub-tools not callable - server injected under bare namespaced name and marked unsupported
- Codex Desktop cannot access LAN on macOS 27 and never requests Local Network permission
- [Windows] Codex desktop app fails to launch, AppX package status shows "Modified, NeedsRemediation"
- TUI: Esc cannot interrupt while final-answer text is streaming after status indicator is hidden
- Codex Desktop stuck in "Windows Setup Incomplete" loop despite Windows Sandbox feature enabled
- Invalid property name in input[303].arguments after attaching a large JSON file (conversation becomes permanently unusable)
- macOS Desktop: "Unable to update remote control state" although remoteControl/enable succeeds
- Codex Desktop exits when the embedded browser GPU process crashes and unsigned SwiftShader fallback is blocked
- Windows Codex Workspace fails with helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors
- Regression: VS Code “Sharing with Agent” remains undiscoverable after #24871 was marked fixed
- Compaction can promote partial output from interrupted commands into falsely confirmed task state
- Feature request: group queued user messages and make them visually distinct
- Feature request: add a frozen state for queued messages
- [Bug] Codex Desktop in-app Browser stalls at 100% for several attachment extensions on Windows
- Cannot generate security PR
- Bad apply_patch error message "Invalid patch: The first line of the patch must be '*** Begin Patch'" results in agent looping
- VS Code extension: full Review diff page crashes while inline diff works
- [Windows] MSIX update leaves Codex unregistered
- [Windows app] Clearly separate ChatGPT/Work/Codex projects and allow Chat + Codex + terminal in one workspace
- Preserve and resume the full subagent tree when resuming a paused main agent thread
- Codex Desktop: distinguish user messages from AI inline output with a theme-aware surface
- I don't see many Codex-model features like branch selection on Windows
- Codex Remote on iOS shows tool images during execution but drops them from the completed turn
- [macOS Desktop] Active remote thread loses in-app Browser route after archive/reopen
- Codex App crashes when I try to access a task
- [Windows] Orca Orchestrator emits unquoted compound cmd.exe /c expression — syntax error
- Managed direct apply_patch has deterministic per-file latency when running inside docker container
- [Desktop 26.721.4979.0] list_threads schema advertises query but runtime rejects it as unrecognized
- [Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Viewing a deleted automation renders an untitled scheduled-task card instead of not found
- Expose a bounded external notify event for MCP elicitation requests
- Windows sandbox setup refresh fails for workspace on \\wsl.localhost UNC path
- Bug: UTF-8 char-boundary panic in `summarize_patch_for_logging` on non-ASCII patches
- Docs: hooks.json timeout key is documented but runtime requires timeout_sec
- Worktree/temp-clone lifecycle broken: auto-delete and worktree-keep-count not enforced; managed-worktree list reports zero while 118 multi-GB run copies (202 GB) accumulate in /tmp
- TUI flashes continuously during bursts of Code Mode tool activity
- Bug: Rollout persistence errors silently discarded during session resume/fork — silent data loss on restart
- Codex App: prompt input line spacing is too tight for multi-line text
- codex exec: request_plugin_install can never install a plugin (exact-match allowlist, then auto-cancelled elicitation) and the error message misdescribes why
- Error submitting message
- [Codex App][Remote SSH] Support multiple source folders/repositories in one project
- Optional Conversation Context Permissions
- Hung awaiting approval?
- install.sh doesn't support version formats like 0.146.0-alpha.10.1, so it can't install it
- Windows shell timeout/cancellation can orphan descendants; timeout appeared sensitive to a wall-clock step
- Windows Desktop: task messaging can use an unregistered host alias and report failure despite inconsistent delivery
- Windows: TUI control sequences (ESC[?2026) leak into composer on Codex CLI 0.145.0
- converstation satus icon is a sqaure but agent is done
- Displays raw :codex-file-citation markup instead of a clickable file link
- [Windows desktop] Clicking the slash-command menu scrollbar closes the menu
- Mismanagement of OpenAI Codex credits
- 1 plan consumed approximately 100 Codex credits
- Plugin catalog cache is rewritten in full after every `plugin/list` — no TTL, no content check, ~65 GB/day of disk writes
- Windows desktop app does not sync Scheduled tasks and always opens to Codex instead of ChatGPT home
- Windows-control connection isn’t available in this task on computer use
- Codex CLI fails to build with OpenSSL 4.0
- Prepare Quotation Documents
- Windows App Server sandbox cannot reach the existing OpenSSH agent named pipe
- Windows Desktop 26.721 repeats elevated sandbox setup; marker rewritten but unreadable/rejected
Resolved issues (17)
- GPT-5.6 Luna resolves to a missing internal engine for non-Codex originators using ChatGPT OAuth
- [Fixed] Oops, an error has occurred on launch ChatGPT Desktop (Windows 11 Home) after created a Project
- Codex plugin for Antigravity IDE stopped showing diff
- Windows Store Codex enters "Modified, NeedsRemediation" after opening any webpage and becomes unlaunchable
- Codex Desktop model picker shows two indistinguishable GPT-5.6 Luna entries
- Windows desktop app launches visible PowerShell windows and interrupts voice dictation
- [Windows ARM64] First Codex launch after PC shutdown repeatedly stalls the entire desktop
- unexpected status 503 Service Unavailable
- ■ unexpected status 503 Service Unavailable: Service Unavailable, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a20a1a2a6a40b74c-LAX, auth error: 503, auth error code: biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open
- Codex App worktree creation resets dirty source checkout without confirmation or recovery snapshot
- Feature request: Filter and paginate Codex tasks in the thread list API
- Browser Use rejects all external URLs as enterprise network policy when privileged config bridge is missing
- fix(install.ps1): Enable TLS 1.2 for Windows PowerShell 5.1 compatibility
- Plugin MCPs are disabled when plugin requirements contain no MCP allowlist
- Preserve and resume the full subagent tree when resuming a paused main agent thread
- Codex mobile won't connect on Windows + Android
- Banked reset please for New Zealand