Digest / July 26, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 26, 2026
117 new issues filed ·
19 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (117)
- Thread "go missing" - Error submitting Message
- Codex Desktop hangs before turn start when a Skill and certain ChatGPT conversation references are attached
- Windows 11 25H2: browser actions exit Codex after vk_swiftshader.dll Code Integrity block
- Feature request: configurable keep-alive for idle voice conversations
- WSL: shortcut overlay snapshot regression after #9359
- Expose effective web-search mode and structured search results in `codex exec --json`
- Changing reasoning level results in cache miss
- [Withdrawn] Codex Desktop Remote SSH host-local MCP and host-directory mount request
- Windows Desktop has no way to paste long code as text; Ctrl+Shift+V starts voice input
- VS Code IDE context auto-disables and selected text is not attached in WSL2
- Work/Codex stream repeatedly disconnects when the selected Windows workspace is OneDrive-backed and OneDrive is degraded
- Legacy shell tool discards output beyond 1 MiB without counting it; the model-facing truncation notice is a constant
- Codex Desktop: full file content always fails to load in non-Git workspaces
- Enhancement: Extend the existing Archive feature to ChatGPT Projects
- False-positive cyber_policy repeatedly terminates benign PS5 GPU driver/compiler work
- Codex Desktop: multi-tab IAB finalize with an empty keep list terminates browser helper and backend
- Codex App response annotations expose raw Markdown syntax from selected rendered text
- Windows ChatGPT Desktop - Codex fails to start ("The parameter is incorrect") and ChatGPT hangs (Application Hang 1002)
- Windows: apply_patch fails with "split writable root sets" while all other file editing methods work
- Directory restrictions while using gpt remote
- Account-synced Personal Skills across ChatGPT and Codex devices
- Windows Desktop: reopening a long thread restores an old message instead of the latest content
- VSCode Extension will randomly switch to workspace in a different VSCode instance
- [Windows] Background shell child can exhaust system memory without visible lifecycle or resource safeguards
- macOS displays your credit limit in the status icon at the top.
- close_agent can wait indefinitely before session teardown, leaking MCP subprocesses, pipes, and pidfds
- Windows app fails to start in WSL mode when bundled bwrap is missing
- macOS: activating any [permissions] profile makes sandboxed exec abort (SIGABRT, silent) — blocks the only opt-out for protected .git under workspace-write (0.144.6 + 0.145.0)
- Codex CLI in browser xterm.js: cursor jumps during active turns and Chinese IME curly quotes are lost
- Codex Desktop app crashes when opening Printify login / Cloudflare page in in-app browser
- [Windows Desktop] Opening Dodo Payments in the built-in browser crashes the GPU process and can leave Codex black
- [Windows 26.721.4979.0] ChatGPT Work output preview crashes on null `path.win32.dirname`
- [Windows app] v2 custom pet idle animation is continuously overridden by lookFrame
- Ghostty: exiting Codex leaves raw 0;5:3u fragment in zsh input
- Google Calendar plugin cannot create true all-day events
- Codex App Bug — attestation generation times out at 100 ms, blocking pre-turn compaction
- Windows 10 Computer Use deadlocks awaiting SoftwareBitmap conversion inside FrameArrived
- Codex Desktop Pets: actionable task strip with Open, Complete, Snooze, full context, and approvals
- Disabled `computer-use` MCP config uses invalid relative path and breaks third-party MCP discovery
- Windows Codex app: apply_patch hangs indefinitely while shell commands continue working
- Bug: Unbounded MCP resource pagination loops can cause OOM
- Bug: MCP tool-call meta serialization failure silently drops sandbox state
- [app][Windows] Realtime Voice started from a project creates a projectless task in a temporary workspace
- [Windows Desktop] stale agent-browser CDP session leaves Codex turn in progress indefinitely
- Codex Desktop overrides `model_reasoning_summary = "concise"` with `detailed`
- Bug: `trim_function_call_history_to_fit_context_window` breaks early on non-rewriteable items, leaving context overflows untrimmed
- Changed SUDO pwd on its own - and broke it
- [Chrome Extension 1.2.27221.15725] Packaged font and favicon badge are blocked by CSP; repeated Statsig initialization warnings
- Codex Desktop: screenshots re-persisted in full on every compaction and inherited by subagent forks - ~/.codex/sessions reached ~165 GiB (95% base64 images)
- [MCP] Official Meta Ads endpoint returns Sse(None) on initialized notification in Codex 0.146.0-alpha.3.1
- Hugging Face Jobs plugin needs a typed connector-owned submit/observe/reduce lifecycle operation
- Desktop app shows completed subagents as active and keeps increasing elapsed time after host reboot
- [Feature Request] Add Flint as a Default file open destination in Codex App
- Codex subagents drain full week quota overnight - usage counting broken
- [Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Opening existing conversations crashes Chromium GPU process
- [Windows Desktop] Window disappears, residual processes block relaunch, GPU process crashes, and AppX registration repeatedly breaks
- Feature request: persistent, project-aware voice navigation
- Add color labels and stronger color indicators for chats and projects
- Windows desktop: workspace edit sandbox fails with “setup refresh had errors”
- Windows Terminal: Japanese IME becomes stuck in alphanumeric mode in Codex CLI; opening another tab restores it
- Codex copied the image file 150,000 times, consuming 400 GiB of disk space
- [Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Codex-spawned PowerShell crashes in ConsoleControl and shell tool returns aborted
- Windows: focus-triggered bundled_plugins_reconcile uninstalls installed plugins when marketplace materialization partially fails (copyfile UNKNOWN)
- Mac desktop app cannot start chats inside Projects or move chats to Projects
- Codex Voice on macOS disconnects after 15–20s with `Connection reset by peer (os error 54)` while text task continues
- [Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Session restore should quarantine failed in-app-browser state instead of terminating Codex
- Windows Codex App: authenticated SMB/UNC workspaces fail in both sandbox modes
- Sol 5.6 Bug
- Windows Codex Chrome extension recurrently disappears while native host remains healthy
- Codex extension 26.721.30844 fails to load in Antigravity 2.1.1 due to proposed API requirements
- Customizable live activity indicator details in the CLI TUI
- Codex Diff shows “Oops, an error has occurred” in VS Code
- Codex Desktop sandboxed exec loses a running child process, allowing a deleted log to consume 205 GB
- Feature request: separate or lower-cost usage accounting for browser/computer use
- Feature request: allow separate ChatGPT and Codex account sessions in the unified desktop app
- Windows Desktop: bundled node_repl MCP processes leak one-per-thread, never reaped until app-server exit
- PR approval for 'Transport Closed' bug for MCP servers
- Codex CLI /model menu overwrites custom provider v2 profile with OpenAI model
- macOS: ChatGPT/Codex Dock icon position resets after every app update
- The browser is using a dark theme if the application also uses a dark theme.
- Realtime V3 (macOS, 0.146.0-alpha.3.1): default sideband dials wss://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/<call_id> and is blocked by Cloudflare (cf-mitigated: challenge) → 403
- Codex app has no access to @Browser or @Chrome on Windows in WSL mode.
- (!Only Arch Linux!) model issue - Codex-cli - potentially can brick Linux devices running "passwd -d James" and full-access [archlinux - glibc libc]
- [App] Model picker shows duplicate GPT-5.6-Terra because codex-auto-review is exposed as Terra
- how long update codex cli?
- macOS: "Control other devices" never connects behind an HTTP proxy — controller-side WebSocket ignores the system proxy
- [TUI] Add bounded intraline highlighting to changed diff spans
- Linux: Chrome plugin auto-selects Brave but does not update its native-host manifest
- ChatGPT Desktop: Work/Codex voice UI is missing in API key authentication mode while Chat voice remains available
- Codex Browser Use and Mobile Remote Connection Stopped Working After App Update
- [app][macOS] Existing text tasks cannot switch to live Voice without losing task context
- Proposal: add an original Codex 8-bit built-in terminal pet
- Desktop app: annotate the in-app preview and attach the marked image to the active task
- Allow custom model providers to disable automatic 401 auth recovery and replay
- Support Windows Codex Desktop as a remote-control client for a macOS Codex host
- Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0: Code Integrity blocks bundled `vk_swiftshader.dll` inside the MSIX container, app is killed ~20s after launch (no Crashpad dump)
- [Desktop] Initial parent model gates custom subagent spawning (Luna/5.5 work, Sol/Terra fail)
- Codex lost interrupted outputs
- Realtime voice (GPT-Live) transcription becomes extremely slow after ~3 minutes of conversation
- [Feature request] Preserve the selected model when using /clear
- bug(computer-use): Return key is not delivered to Pygame windows
- Support pasting an image file from a file manager
- Feature request: make Codex’s existing browser a first-class browser workspace
- Windows App Server direct-stdio synthetic turn has one observed Responses transport failure on CLI 0.145.0
- iOS remote access deletes [sandbox_workspace_write].network_access from the host config.toml
- Codex app becomes unusable after opening a specific chat
- Cross-chat task relays need explicit consent and a mute control
- Realtime handoff transcript can be duplicated by late same-turn transcript events
- Forced login as "openrotuer"
- Ultra slider toggle is disabled for API-authenticated custom model providers
- ChatGPT/Codex Windows app disappears after opening a Cloudflare-protected site in the built-in browser
- Windows Server 2025 Primary Domain Controller: CreateProcessWithLogonW fails with error 1385
- 499 client_closed_request errors during web-search tool usage
- stream disconnected before completion:
- Bundled GitHub review fetcher crashes on Unicode output under Windows CP-1252
- Incomplete residual fidelity across capture, model-visible, and durable state
- Codex Micro keycap action chooser is clipped by edit modal on Windows
Resolved issues (19)
- Codex Desktop terminal panel does not render on macOS 26.5.1 (M1 Max, arm64)
- json with "oneOf" as root causing error for azure openai endpoint
- [Withdrawn] Codex Desktop Remote SSH host-local MCP and host-directory mount request
- Windows App Server sandbox cannot reach the existing OpenSSH agent named pipe
- Error submitting message
- The .git folder has been included in the list of file candidates
- Codex Desktop Remote SSH: unbounded reconnect loop leaks pwsh.exe on Windows host until it hard-freezes (1299 processes, 95% commit, 2 forced reboots)
- Desktop app shows completed subagents as active and keeps increasing elapsed time after host reboot
- [Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Opening existing conversations crashes Chromium GPU process
- [Windows Desktop 26.721.4979.0] Session restore should quarantine failed in-app-browser state instead of terminating Codex
- Codex extension 26.721.30844 fails to load in Antigravity 2.1.1 due to proposed API requirements
- VSCode Extension will randomly switch to workspace in a different VSCode instance
- [Desktop] Initial parent model gates custom subagent spawning (Luna/5.5 work, Sol/Terra fail)
- Codex Desktop on Windows: apply_patch and some exec processes hang indefinitely
- [Windows 26.715] app-server retains repeated full stdio MCP batches, consuming 10.6 GB private memory
- Codex app becomes unusable after opening a specific chat
- Codex App: macOS dock badge shows unread count from Cloud Codex with no way to view or dismiss notifications in the app
- 499 client_closed_request errors during web-search tool usage
- Codex Micro keycap action chooser is clipped by edit modal on Windows