Digest / August 2, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 2, 2026
103 new issues filed ·
11 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (103)
- macOS Desktop: Image Download button does nothing (drag works, web works)
- Android Codex Remote: please bring back microphone dictation in the active thread
- Android Codex Remote loses drafted voice/text input on connection interruptions and requires full reconnect
- GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex feels like a major regression compared to GPT-5.5
- Feature request: an ambient ChatGPT ear device
- Atomic, content-addressed personal-plugin update transaction with exact rollback
- Multiple-image requests generate collages instead of separate outputs
- Hide feedback controls when feedback.enabled is false
- Critical tasks can launch in a projectless restricted context and misclassify capability failures
- Code Mode functions.exec drops mcp/www_authenticate from nested MCP tool results
- [Windows][Codex Desktop] Agent can terminate its own host by force-killing ChatGPT renderer processes during IAB recovery
- The GitHub connector authenticates the account but never creates or associates a GitHub App installation
- Pinned Codex thread becomes detached from its local project and cannot continue: “Unable to send message — Select a project to continue”
- [Windows Desktop] command runner tries to hide C:\Users\Default on every sandboxed command and logs error 5
- no-active-thread-019fc098-2e7c-7bb2-b9ed-cf8c6d7dc264
- Bug: Codex session resume fails with `Invalid 'input[x].content': array too long` due to incompatible reasoning items in rollout JSONL
- [macOS][Codex Desktop] file:// tabs are renderable and annotatable, but Browser Use blocks read-only inspection
- Codex ignores an explicit known-good tool entrypoint and invents incompatible API calls
- Codex conflates calling a model API with delegating work to a full coding CLI agent
- Layered instructions can lock Codex into repeated planning/review meta-workflows with zero implementation
- Codex confidently misstates integration capabilities by conflating CLI-agent support with VS Code extension control
- Subagent spawns duplicate the full parent session history into each child rollout file (quadratic disk growth)
- Session delete removes the archive payload but leaves a stale database row, then errors on every subsequent delete
- Codex Desktop worktree creation does not run repository post-checkout hooks
- Codex Windows PowerShell Console Flash
- [Windows][26.721.4979.0] Renderer repeatedly soft-restarts after rapid memory growth in long-running sessions
- codex exec --json drops typed codexErrorInfo from terminal errors
- Windows app shows six undeletable cloud archived chats after web deletion
- Codex bypasses an explicitly identified working command and invents incompatible API calls
- Codex treats raw model API completions as full coding-agent delegation
- Codex repeatedly substitutes a neighboring tool workflow after explicit user corrections
- Windows app: Copy button content intermittently cannot be pasted after switching chats
- Windows app: Korean IME Hangul/English toggle intermittently stops working in chat composer
- False cybersecurity warning repeatedly hides normal infrastructure workflow output
- exec: approvals_reviewer = "auto_review" silently defeats an explicit --sandbox level
- app-server: no way to list running sessions or steer one, and nothing marks liveness outside the daemon
- [CLI/TUI] Add a one-shot per-prompt model override without changing the session model
- False-positive cyber classification interrupts ordinary concurrency testing
- desktop execution-bridge failure occurring on even a two-line command
- Codex Desktop - Project Level Instructions
- Timed out waiting for stream response, consistently.
- TUI paste failure during streaming can hide assistant message prefix
- Codex app: quota-exhausted popup has no close/dismiss option
- codex app version 26.727.51351 issue on mac
- Windows TUI becomes blank and unresponsive after Ctrl+C from /btw side chat
- app-server remote mode: no way to shut down a remote TUI gracefully from the server side (always exits non-zero on server-initiated close)
- Codex Desktop: custom-provider model shown as "Custom High" and session persona claims GPT-5
- Windows installation won't start
- Codex App: benchmark-driven context-drift warning and one-click HANDOFF.md migration to a new task
- Provide a practical submit binding when Enter inserts a newline
- Subagent task payload invisible to custom non-OpenAI providers (DeepSeek): encrypted_content block dropped with multi_agent_version v2
- [app][Windows][26.727.6591.0] New voice chat races startup watchdog before Realtime begins
- Codex Security Deep Scan fails twice on Windows: spawn EPERM, then missing threat_model.md after workaround
- Shell snapshot generation fails on extglob-dependent functions (e.g. bash-completion realpath)
- [Feature Request] Add an explicit token-budget picker for CLI goals
- Preserve compose buffer when using slash commands
- Codex App create_thread reports failure after creating the task, causing duplicates
- Codex desktop: one remote worker request can create duplicate workers in continuous voice
- Windows taskbar with auto-hide overlaps the bottom of the Codex composer
- safety limits unreasonable (fraud)
- Codex repeatedly terminates active autonomous work despite explicit instructions to continue until user input is required
- Feature request: isolated custom-provider routing in Codex App without intercepting native OpenAI traffic
- Blank sidebar with "No chats" after updating to Codex app (Error: no-active-thread-019fc27b-4072-7ca1-ab41-e6bdfb7d2620)
- [MCP Apps] App-origin tools/call bypasses model-only visibility in Codex Desktop
- Approved plans do not reliably constrain Codex execution, causing silent scope expansion
- Codex app: make the external-browser gesture deterministic across links and local HTML files
- [App][Subagents] Long-running command card disappears after child-thread rebind; output deltas are dropped
- Windows Computer Use rejects Chrome modal dialog HWND and can capture Codex instead
- `chatgpt.cliExecutable` is scoped to application rather than machine
- Desktop plugin toggle leaves live thread on stale hook engine after upgrade
- VS Code Codex extension on Windows 11: Node REPL MCP fails because sandboxPolicy metadata is missing
- Windows Smart App Control blocks unsigned Codex node_repl.exe when using WSL
- Switching Codex from Windows-native to WSL breaks existing project chats and preserves invalid Windows path bindings
- Codex lacks documentation for migrating existing chats from Windows-native execution to WSL
- WSL migration failures expose opaque internal deserialization errors with no recovery guidance
- 019fc324-8528-7963-8ade-863dab57a272
- The user experience is terrible—why is such a common need still unaddressed?
- Windows native agent setup fails without displaying the required UAC prompt
- Windows limited-access mode attempts unavailable sandbox and fails with CreateProcessAsUserW error
- Updating an active chat from the iPhone app destabilizes the same chat in the Windows desktop app
- Codex Desktop macOS: model/reasoning controls intermittently ignore clicks after external display + UI zoom
- [Windows] Persist the user-selected pet activity tray side across relaunch
- [app][Windows ARM64] Natural display timeout converts live Voice control to Play state while Codex task continues
- [Windows Desktop 26.727.6591.0] app-server crashes under commit-memory exhaustion and does not auto-recover
- Codex App may rapidly consume GitHub GraphQL quota while resolving sidebar PR badges
- [Windows] Browser automation can open dialogs but cannot save form changes
- Unexpected $90 Credit Consumption by Codex in ~6 Hours
- Mac desktop app maintains a different conversation history than web and iOS
- Bundled skill-creator documents direct script execution, but its scripts are not executable
- Allow codex thread start in plan mode
- [Windows][multi-monitor] Codex window border spills onto adjacent display
- macOS Computer Use bootstrap lacks Node REPL privileged bridge
- This Chrome extension is absolutely terrible
- macOS Desktop: integrated terminal output is visible but read_thread_terminal returns empty
- Sol wouldn't let me audit my own website
- PowerShell uses C:\ instead of the workspace directory for Dropbox projects
- Performance and intelligence
- Conversation thread jumps back into middle of sidebar when invoked from another thread
- Active model name is hidden in some voice chat modes
- File-change approval prompt is blank when reason is absent
- Error creating files
- Backward-compat regression: legacy exec_command_end cwd is rejected as PathUri, amplifying replay into Jetsam
- Expose active model and reasoning effort to Codex voice/mobile sessions
Resolved issues (11)
- Codex bypasses an explicitly identified working command and invents incompatible API calls
- Codex treats raw model API completions as full coding-agent delegation
- Codex repeatedly substitutes a neighboring tool workflow after explicit user corrections
- codex app version 26.727.51351 issue on mac
- 26.527.3686.0 introduces invisible/transparent UI composition bug
- Add Chinese (zh-CN) UI localization support
- [CLI] gpt-5.6-sol intermittently omits terminal `]` in JSON final messages
- Codex Diff shows “Oops, an error has occurred” in VS Code
- aa
- [Windows Desktop 26.727.6591.0] app-server crashes under commit-memory exhaustion and does not auto-recover
- Device options invisible in Dimensions dropdown