Digest / July 30, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 30, 2026
145 new issues filed ·
20 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (145)
- Windows desktop app: all shell commands fail with CryptUnprotectData error 0x8009000B
- Document the July 29 “18% longer” Sol usage metric and provide reproducible quota attribution
- Long-running Codex agent lacked a no-progress watchdog after false derived holds (5.345B token-events)
- Allow TokenBudget reminders with native summarizing compaction
- Show each subagent’s current task at a glance in the Codex CLI TUI
- Regression after unified desktop rollout: Responses WebSocket timeouts and stream disconnects
- Continuing a sidebar conversation in a new task fails with "no rollout found"
- Continuing a sidebar conversation in a new task fails with "no rollout found"
- New local folder based project Work chats default to Cloud chats
- Codex uploads files before distinguishing a published Figshare item from its unpublished revision
- Quick Chat does not render generated files as downloadable attachments
- Generated file links render as plain text and are not clickable in the new ChatGPT Windows desktop app
- Allow separate instructions for Chat and Work modes
- VS Code: Codex Diff crashes with "Thread context is unavailable for non-thread routes"
- AGENTS.md points at a nonexistent path: codex-mcp/src/mcp_connection_manager.rs
- TUI: `Ctrl+/` side conversation toggle is ignored in Ghostty inside tmux
- issue ID 019fafa5-6897-7ee3-9a97-b79a8616a975
- Windows desktop app freezes when trying to share a chat as context in codex
- Codex GitHub mention creates duplicate cloud tasks that cannot be cancelled
- Codex Desktop stays permanently running when chat_processes.json is corrupted
- Codex App: Continue in new chat can retain steered messages past the fork boundary
- Support opt-in sparse checkout when creating managed worktrees
- [Windows app] Deleted local project remains selectable in Settings > Environments
- Runtime-generated secrets in nested MCP calls are stored unredacted in Codex session transcripts
- Windows: “Files and folders” picker still opens as file-only after #34965 was completed
- Persistent learning memory and progress tracking for Codex Live voice across sessions and devices
- gpt-5.6-sol' model is not supported and no usage limit
- [Windows][26.721.11231.0] App exits ~2.4s after launch after two renderer 0xC0000005 crashes
- [Windows 10] Codex app icon setting is indexed but missing from Appearance settings
- Codex (ChatGPT 5.6 Ultra) is giving reproducible, severe quality regressions since yesterday, this is not normal model variance
- Windows sandbox fails with helper_unknown_error: apply deny-read ACLs in workspace-write mode
- Import agent setup function can't be reused after the first import.
- Get-Content intermittently stalls for minutes on Windows PowerShell while Codex is reading file context
- [Windows App] Active Codex turns cause system-wide stutter; stopping `codex-computer-use.exe` eliminates it
- Git marketplace refresh starts a full clone per concurrent `codex exec` process
- Auto-review uses invalid model name "codex-auto-review"
- MultiAgentV2 concurrent follow-up during eviction can leave a removed runtime in residency
- codex.exe crashes with STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (0xc0000409) on Windows 11
- Codex CLI shows no progress or status updates while long-running model requests are still active
- Allow PowerShell or WSL execution environment to be selected per project and per chat
- [BUG] Mouse wheel does not scroll in CLI TUI — both main view and Ctrl+T overlay (Windows, v0.146.0)
- [macOS] Bundled plugin reconciliation causes 30-40s startup delay due to content variant mismatch
- Repeated user-session rollouts replay large history and rapidly grow context/quota
- False-positive content blocks interrupt benign C repository review and its reporting flow
- Voice fails to connect after reinstall on Windows
- VS Code Codex Diff crashes: Thread context is unavailable for non-thread routes
- Codex App ignores redirected Windows Documents Known Folder for projectless workspaces
- [macOS][Pets] Pet fog mask is oversized and shifts position
- Cant create new task with context from another
- Codex initialization error: error: The parameter is incorrect. (os error 87)
- Messages can't be deleted
- Web: conversations created in the desktop app cannot be moved to a Project until opened and loaded
- The voice in the chat cannot reconnect
- Codex Exits From Sessions Prematurely
- Support image attachments in comments on selected response text
- I can't see side chat history
- “Allow once” button is unresponsive in the file edit permission dialog
- CLI: weekly rate-limit status-line item disappears after /resume
- macOS 26.721.81911: renderer freezes at launch in history-swipe layout effect, 100% CPU
- Windows: `codex update` installer blocked by McAfee Real Protect as `rp-fileless`
- Benign legal document generation triggered cyber security flag
- macOS Codex global-state atomic writer recreates private state files as 0644
- [Sites] Source credential and version-list tools time out after 300 seconds
- ChatGPT Sites: unable to change deployed Site from owner-only to public
- Verify evals on Papers with Code
- Context compression caused Codex to attribute the previous approval error to the task that needs approval this time.
- TUI: plan implementation prompt does not set `Action Required` in the terminal title
- [macOS] Arabic RTL and mixed English text render in the wrong order
- VS Code extension: thread list cannot show mcp/exec sessions — no equivalent of `codex resume --include-non-interactive`
- [Windows] Switching to a large thread with an in-app Browser reattaches the WebView, shows a Chromium profile error, and repeatedly reloads history
- Codex Guardian incorrectly denies an explicitly authorized patch because it hallucinates a SHA-256 mismatch
- Parent turn completes while newly spawned child agent is still pendingInit
- Make thumbs-up feedback one click and detailed feedback optional
- Codex weekly allowance drops by ~1 percentage point per Luna task on ChatGPT Pro
- [Feature Request] Restore full context window for gpt-5.6-sol to improve performance and answer quality
- Subject: Urgent Bug: GPT continuously prompts for authorization despite having Full Permission
- Problems with very short turns (sometimes only 1 sed) and `/goal` aborting without reason
- ChatGPT Android: copying an answer also copies the ‘Processed for N minutes’ status
- Don't branch conversations when editing the last prompt
- Preserve in-app browser login state when the same remote service is forwarded to a new local port
- Claim regarding Codex malfunction
- DOCX preview auto-fit zoom continuously oscillates between 61% and 63%
- VS Code extension: thread list is fetched once per webview mount and never refreshes
- Codex crashes when serializing image-heavy saved task payloads
- Mouse wheel scrolls prompt history instead of transcript when Codex CLI runs inside tmux
- Profile-specific `auth.json` for Codex CLI
- codex app-server fails at startup when getcwd(2) returns (unreachable)/...
- Plan Mode remains enforced after resuming a thread even though the CLI reports Default mode
- [App] Allow the model picker to override project-scoped model defaults
- Windows App Work-specific items do not synchronize with Web or Android clients
- macOS: ChatGPT desktop logs banner+sound delivery, but no turn-complete notification is visible or audible
- Plus account did not receive July 29 Codex rate-limit reset
- Support portrait monitor layouts.
- [Windows Desktop 26.721] Per-key composer input terminates CrBrowserMain at fixed chrome.dll breakpoint
- Pull Requests tab in Windows app fails for WSL project with GraphQL VAR_SIGN error
- Linux: bundled Chrome plugin bootstrap fails because node_repl blocks node:process import
- [Windows Desktop] Full-process PowerShell/WMI polling remains in 26.721.4979.0 and contributes to system-wide input lag
- Windows sandbox helper creates file but fails on subsequent read operation
- Windows execpolicy cannot bind a bare PowerShell command to an approved launcher path
- feat: support max_output_tokens in Responses API requests
- Voice input button disappears in existing chats but appears in new chats
- Mobile remote control disconnects before task completion, so completion notifications are missed
- automatic approval review did not finish before its deadline
- [Codex App][Remote SSH] Thread hydration blocks the app-server queue and causes an endless reconnect loop
- Custom provider reports initialized Model Context Protocol servers as uninitialized
- Title: Steer messages repeatedly fail during an active Codex task
- Review button shows error in Editor tab: "Oops, an error has occurred" then 'Try again' button.
- New realtime voice chats start projectless instead of attaching to the selected project folder
- VS Code reconnect resets Full Access permissions and desynchronizes the chat UI
- macOS: Codex Security scan can leave a thread inaccessible with React error #185
- VS Code reconnect resets Full Access permissions and desynchronizes the chat UI
- [Bug] Windows Codex stops listing microphones after switching Thunderbolt 4 docks while app remains open
- VS Code background-agent activity chips are unresponsive
- [TypeScript SDK] Support raw config overrides for dotted map keys
- VS Code Background Agents tab intermittently disappears during an active Goal
- [macOS] In-app Browser backend disappears after update; 26.721.41059 restores it
- Add GitHub Discussions support to the connector
- ChatGPT vs Work discrepancy
- Duplicate Started entries for a single subagent in CLI 0.146.0
- Windows: + composer menu cannot scroll to top at large app font size
- http-client: rustls root store + ClientConfig rebuilt from native certs on every websocket connect / client build (no memoization)
- login: get_codex_user_agent() re-runs os_info::get() per HTTP client build, spawning lsb_release/dpkg-query/getconf (~27 ms each on Linux)
- close_agent is missing from the VS Code multi-agent tool schema
- the new GPT SOL 5.6 is unfair for plus users , increase the usage for plus by 2x - or a secondary ratelimits on small models
- VS Code extension: add a setting to disable cloud conversation fetching
- Model picker lists "5.6 Terra" twice; the first row selects the hidden codex-auto-review model, which reliably triggers #32435
- Codex Desktop: aggregate subagent edits into the parent task’s “Edited files” card
- Restore a focused native macOS Codex app - the combined super app has broken basic chat organization
- macOS: Annotation mode makes the cursor invisible on a localhost canvas app
- Feature request: Persistent role agents with memory, schedules, and collaboration
- Windows unified app 26.721.11231.0 crashes on startup: “Invalid weekday string: MON”
- Error using ChatGPT work
- Sites won't publish: missing_account_user_id
- GPT‑5.6 regression: stronger planning, weaker execution and instruction adherence
- Closed: incorrect report caused by misidentifying a VS Code terminal
- ChatGPT Sites: owner can manage an owner-only site but cannot visit its deployed URL
- Current Windows Desktop still fails remote compaction for image-heavy long-running tasks (reconnect 5/5)
- feat: LaTeX rendering
- [macOS] Visualize 1.0.16 materializes live-disabled and does not register the native path
- [Windows] CodexSandboxOffline profile blocks Windows 11 in-place upgrades (0x8007001F / 0x80070057)
- Incorrect RTL layout when Arabic text contains inline code
- LEBRON JAMES
- macOS Slack appshot fails with noWindowsAvailable despite visible window
- Codex App fails to discover Remote SSH connections despite working SSH and authenticated remote Codex CLI
- Windows app doesn’t render generated file attachments
Resolved issues (20)
- Document the July 29 “18% longer” Sol usage metric and provide reproducible quota attribution
- Codex Desktop Windows sandbox hangs on Google Drive virtual filesystem — SetNamedSecurityInfoW failed: 87
- Windows desktop app: all shell commands fail with CryptUnprotectData error 0x8009000B
- Codex IDE extension does not initialize when opening the first project in Positron on Ubuntu 24.04
- Show each subagent’s current task at a glance in the Codex CLI TUI
- Continuing a sidebar conversation in a new task fails with "no rollout found"
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send follow-up messages after the initial response
- VS Code: Codex Diff crashes with "Thread context is unavailable for non-thread routes"
- Quick Chat does not render generated files as downloadable attachments
- [macOS] Bundled plugin reconciliation causes 30-40s startup delay due to content variant mismatch
- VS Code Codex Diff crashes: Thread context is unavailable for non-thread routes
- Quick chat doesn't work in the new ChatGPT/Codex desktop app on Mac
- File modification cards are not displayed in Codex
- Weekly limits reset extending to infinity when we are getting close to it
- Support portrait monitor layouts.
- VS Code reconnect resets Full Access permissions and desynchronizes the chat UI
- [proprosal] telemetry for Codex-uwp is crashing {windows sandbox apps/ Universal Windows Platform apps}UWP-Compliant Approach - (for windows - codex-dekstop-app )
- 🩹🩹 Codex App Remote SSH does not honor ForwardAgent from ~/.ssh/config, breaking docker buildx --ssh
- Closed: incorrect report caused by misidentifying a VS Code terminal
- [Windows app] Opening any chat triggers Code Integrity 3033 for vk_swiftshader.dll, corrupts MSIX package, and prevents relaunch (0x3CFC)