Digest / July 31, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 31, 2026
123 new issues filed ·
17 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (123)
- Remote conversation is visible on the host machine but never syncs to ChatGPT Web or Android
- Bundled skill validator fails because PyYAML is not installed or declared
- Weekly Codex usage limit was not updated after purchasing a paid subscription
- Windows Powershell installation instructions should use -NoProfile
- Allow local overrides for skill implicit-invocation policy
- Goal mode can enter a one-way blocked state after a recoverable failure
- Codex Desktop: atomic project-aware create_thread with runtime roots and idempotency
- Feature request: Include model and reasoning-level recommendations in ChatGPT-to-Codex handoffs
- gpt-5.6-terra Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Deep research not available after following all troubleshooting
- Codex App side conversation can misclassify an explicit new-task request as prohibited subagent delegation
- Feature Request: Custom Pet State-Based Animation Mapping for Codex Status
- Automation created with status PAUSED is silently saved as ACTIVE
- Android Remote replays one create_thread operation into seven thread/start requests
- [Windows][MCP] taskkill /T can terminate the host application after stale PPID reuse
- Automation follow-up clears apps_instructions and removes codex_apps tools
- Windows read-only sandbox cannot load node_repl kernel staged under host TEMP
- [Windows Desktop] Connector file_uri cannot be materialized into Codex local workspace
- Remote mobile Codex cannot download generated PDFs: file citations and local links are non-clickable
- windows sandbox failed: helper_unknown_error
- Codex App: improve the Subagents panel with live activity and per-agent configuration
- GPT 5.6 Repeatedly Takes Control Of Computer With Computer Use Disabled
- [Android] "Authorize this phone" loops forever after ChatGPT app reinstall — web auth completes, app never consumes the approval, host receives zero pairing claims
- macOS: Pet overlay action buttons overlap with native material rendering but lay out correctly in CSS mode
- Windows Store build 26.721.11231.0 exits during native bootstrap and sandbox setup on multiple Windows profiles
- Desktop goal run continued for hours and consumed millions of tokens without a progress cutoff
- Codex App: add bulk removal for imported projects
- [ui] overflow causing incredibly tall dialog in browsing history -> clear browsing data
- July 30 ChatGPT 5.6 bug
- Allow restricting making CLI network requests only to certain ports on the proxy
- Chrome Browser Use: claimed signed-in tab consistently times out when reading DOM
- [Windows] Drag-selecting assistant output intermittently reloads the renderer
- Codex Desktop may use a stale image-input revision when a PNG filename is reused
- Codex Desktop: Cmd+1..9 selects the wrong pinned chat after unified sidebar migration
- The button for stop reasoning disappeared
- KDE Wayland: notification action points to virtual desktop with no Codex window
- WinGet releases repeatedly require manual approval because executable validation fails
- Windows app triggers repeated WMI-Activity 5858 errors on launch
- Nested exec can orphan a mutating child while outer wait reports complete
- Codex App: selected-text action toolbar is clipped to the width of short user-message bubbles
- [Windows] Archiving Codex tasks fails with ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE (os error 17)
- [macOS Desktop] UI freezes for ~30 seconds immediately after every launch
- [Windows][26.721.11231.0] RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64 and AppHang before sleep; resume leaves app headless and system unresponsive
- iOS Remote hides Photos and Camera controls in active SSH project tasks
- [app][macOS] Realtime voice fails on low-MTU VPN paths with QUIC "Message too long"
- multi_agent_v2=true runs Luna on V2, but spawn_agent still filters Luna as V1
- Regression: macOS migration clones installation identity and Remote Control fails with 409
- Codex Desktop: required MCP failure blocks task creation/resume with no recovery mode
- Verify MCP server identity and refresh tool metadata after runtime changes
- Preserve structured MCP tool schemas in the host-visible tool catalog
- Restore project-grouped chat navigation in the Codex desktop sidebar
- [app] Activity view keeps stale ordering after chats receive new activity
- [Bug] Luna high/xhigh long structured-output turns disconnect while Sol low succeeds
- Web Codex starts multiple Serena MCP servers for a single session
- False-positive safety check blocks authorized defensive work
- Feature request: sync local Codex CLI conversations with the matching Codex App project
- [Bug] Codex Desktop: benign diagnostics blocked, tool schema error, and broken thread recovery
- Erratic Usage Limits & Resets Changing Every Other Day
- Unbounded plugin-catalog pagination loops: repeated next_page_token causes infinite requests and OOM (guard exists for skills, missing here)
- Use GPT Transcribe of GPT Live Transcribe for transcription
- Weekly quota window is recomputed to a rolling 7-days-from-now anchor, and a reset restores only a fraction of the window
- GPT Live Transcibe for realtime annotation in the browser or other documents
- Codex Desktop create_thread rejects valid project worktree requests as invalid arguments
- [VS Code][Regression] Changed-files review bar prevents the active Subagents panel from appearing
- Add `@Codex ignore` functionality to the ChatGPT Codex Connector GitHub App
- Authentification failed on termux
- [macOS] ChatGPT Chrome extension unavailable in Chrome Web Store while Codex Chrome plugin and native host are healthy
- Windows Desktop: switching Agent environment to WSL2 fails startup with state db backfill handshake timeout
- [Bug] spawn_agent/followup_task/send_message: child agents receive empty task payload (multi-agent v2, 0.146.0-alpha.9.2)
- Bug: Workspace-authenticated Codex ignores configured default `model` and `service_tier`
- [VS Code Remote-SSH] Codex Diff crashes after clicking Review for any Codex edit
- ChatGPT Desktop cannot authenticate through HTTP Basic proxy (407) while ChatGPT Classic works
- [Windows][26.727.4816.0] Codex Security workspace enters renderer respawn loop and leaks memory
- Codex Security elicitation opens blank pane and falsely returns declined
- Windows sandbox spawn fails with SetTokenInformation(TokenDefaultDacl) error 1344 when workdir is the home directory (and 1920 via per-user WindowsApps pwsh)
- SSH Remote app-server accumulates ~100k unreaped Git children during long-lived multi-client sessions
- macOS: Pet briefly falls back to the busy animation at drag start and release
- Make Codex conversation history readable on mobile when the host computer is offline
- Windows app freezes during recurring heartbeat when in-app browser tab finalization times out
- Codex Desktop: “Open in…” takes 3–5 seconds to open file references in JetBrains IDEs on one Mac
- Windows Computer Use rejects Blender window with identical owner and can capture it under Explorer
- Allow permission profiles to extend multiple profiles
- Codex TUI freezes after Zellij detach/reattach; suspending before detach avoids it
- [Windows] Remote Control appears but enabling it always fails after several seconds
- [Windows] Recent Codex session disappears from sidebar after restart during Remote Control troubleshooting
- Conversation interrupted
- "You've hit your usage limit" but usage dashboard and /status both show 43%
- [macOS][Codex App 26.727] Duplicate runaway ffmpeg children consumed ~900% CPU for 7.5 hours
- Add atomic plugin marketplace retarget with rollback
- Windows: apply_patch aborts in unelevated sandbox with approval request aborted
- [macOS 27 beta] ChatGPT for Chrome native host triggers repeated Python.framework alert
- ChatGPT desktop incorrectly denies Codex access on a personal Plus account while Codex CLI works - Version 26.727.40816
- Possible incorrect Codex weekly usage accounting on ChatGPT Plus (weekly quota exhausted in less than 24 hours)
- Bug: Answers Are Internally Truncated Unpredictably
- Windows desktop: interrupting a stuck turn resets local app-server IPC (EPIPE)
- Desktop sidebar does not live-register threads created by external app-server until restart
- [macOS App] view_image and image_gen local reference reads fail when fs sandbox helper is SIGKILLed
- [state DB] Restored rollout files are not rescanned after an empty backfill is marked complete
- Plus shows 58% weekly quota remaining, yet it alerts me that I've hit the usage limit. Upgrade your plan or top up your quota to continue, or try again after 21:15 on August 7, 2026
- $imagegen skill loads, but built-in image-generation tool is not registered
- Docs: `project_doc_max_bytes` documented as per-file on one page, cumulative on another (code is cumulative)
- [Windows] Presentation preview rendering crashes in skia-canvas with 0xC0000005
- `0.147.0-alpha.4`: OpenAI parent still sends encrypted V2 task to non-OpenAI child after #35845
- Windows App missing official Chrome / Computer Use plugins
- Raise the default wait_agent deadline from 30 seconds to 5 minutes
- [RFC] Strict delegation: host-enforced monotonic authority ceilings for subagents
- MCP tools silently unavailable with DeepSeek official setup (custom models.json: supports_search_tool=true + tool_mode=null)
- macOS: translucent sidebar turns green during three-finger Space switching
- Windows sandbox 0.146.0: physical standalone package reaches SpawnChild but CreateProcessAsUserW fails with error 2
- multi_agent_v2: OpenAI parent → custom-provider subagent starts correctly but receives an empty task payload
- Option to disable auto-scroll while the assistant is generating a response
- Auto-review denies required Jujutsu metadata writes in trusted workspace, blocking even jj status
- Regression: unclickable file-change approval permanently strands Codex Desktop task
- [macOS][migration] Legacy ChatGPTHelper remains KeepAlive after app unification, retaining Option+Space
- Codex Terminal line-height mismatch breaks prompt rendering
- Sub-agent busy-waiting burns a week of quota: 6,932 blocking waits, 23.7% returning empty, in one 11-day session
- Codex crashes when CWD is unlinked
- Android/Termux: sandbox reads /proc/sys/kernel/overflowuid before bwrap, fails with Permission denied
- Codex Windows desktop: spell-check underlines misspellings but provides no correction suggestions
- VS Code Codex Diff crashes with "Oops, an error has occurred" on Linux
- new projects not showing in the project bar.
- Realtime Voice loses Codex task-tool handlers and live host route after successful delegation
- Forked tasks inherit unfinished turns
Resolved issues (17)
- [app][Windows][26.721.4979.0] New realtime voice chat times out with unmaterialized provisional thread
- [macOS][Pet] Semi-transparent gray fog/halo appears around transparent pet after update
- [Sites] Source credential and version-list tools time out after 300 seconds
- [macOS] In-app Browser backend disappears after update; 26.721.41059 restores it
- Windows Codex Desktop becomes unstartable after adding a second folder to an existing project
- Restore project-grouped chat navigation in the Codex desktop sidebar
- macOS: Pet overlay action buttons overlap with native material rendering but lay out correctly in CSS mode
- Conversation interrupted
- codex mcp-server on Windows rejects in-workspace apply_patch under :workspace as outside the project
- com.openai.codex.code_sign_clone temporary directories are never cleaned up on macOS
- $imagegen skill loads, but built-in image-generation tool is not registered
- Codex App Remote SSH uses id_rsa by default even if it doesn't exist
- Windows Codex Desktop spellcheck detects misspellings but shows No Guesses Found
- Raise the default wait_agent deadline from 30 seconds to 5 minutes
- multi_agent_v2: OpenAI parent → custom-provider subagent starts correctly but receives an empty task payload
- Regression: unclickable file-change approval permanently strands Codex Desktop task
- Add "Uncommitted" to Review tool dropdown