Digest / August 3, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 3, 2026
133 new issues filed ·
42 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (133)
- Auto-compaction silently discards all conversation history since 0.145.0
- Avoid cloning normalized conversation history again during request construction
- Share exec output bytes across event history, broadcast, and replay
- [Windows] Codex App exits after task completion when Browser Use session tears down
- Codex Desktop: support VS Code-compatible file icon themes in the workspace file tree
- WSL CLI 0.146.0: restoring Full Access on startup rewrites approvals_reviewer from auto_review to user
- Codex Desktop keeps stale custom-model reasoning levels after restart (catalog low/high/max, task high/xhigh)
- I hope the Codex app can support a plugin system like VSCode’s.
- Codex Desktop: add a “Promote to chat” button to side conversations
- Withdrawn
- tui: history grouping fully renders cells only to test visibility
- tui: Markdown table rendering clones body cells and wrapped hyperlink lines
- app-server: forwarded core events are cloned before bespoke handling
- app-server: targeted notification fan-out clones the final subscriber payload
- app-server: forwarded core events rebuild the subscriber list
- exec-server: successful sandbox exits build output for a false classification
- sdk: `events.return()` resolves before its direct child exits
- Crash Report
- Proposal: render top-level visualization fences inline in the TUI
- Code preview should support horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping long lines
- Desktop app repeatedly fails to resume a Codex thread after encrypted tool-output decode error
- [Windows][Migration] Unified ChatGPT Desktop drops existing Codex project-to-thread associations
- 9.47M tokens + 183.9M cached in one 5.9h CLI session: 74 compactions sustained ~every 3.7min, 95% followed by re-reading files/tests already read this session
- 9.47M tokens + 183.9M cached in one 5.9h CLI session (gpt-5.3-codex-spark): 74 compactions sustained ~every 3.7min, 95% followed by re-reading files/tests already read this session - used 100% of a week
- Codex repeatedly ignores explicit task scope and performs destructive out-of-scope changes
- Codex repeatedly ignores explicit task scope and performs destructive out-of-scope changes
- autonomous goal continuation
- Model-callable context management tools for active, selective compaction
- [Windows Desktop GUI] Active plan card and step progress are lost after interrupt and continue
- Codex app: defensive review triggers recurring cyber-safety banner and parent systemError during multi-agent review
- [macOS] SkyComputerUseService SIGSEGV in AsyncStream.yield leaves Chrome backend unavailable
- Codex Desktop intermittently exposes thread tools without registered handlers
- [Windows] Finalizing the last in-app Browser Use tab closes/restarts Codex Desktop
- [macOS][Pets] Pet repeatedly jumps during display/resolution changes; saved position from wrong resolution is restored
- Allow remote Code Mode hosts to declare the source language and model-facing exec contract
- Windows Codex Desktop hangs when Computer Use plugin is enabled
- Codex Desktop drops substantive live text from the visible task after the turn advances
- app-server can finalize an identical progress message before promised tool work starts
- [VS Code] Chat creation fails with "AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path" when any workspace folder is virtual (non-`file` scheme) - uri.fsPath read without a scheme check
- [Feature Request] Add clock or time statusline config
- app-server: `thread/start` emits duplicate MCP startup notifications, including a spurious `cancelled`, for servers that were only started once
- [Windows] Voice input incorrectly says another application is using the microphone
- High Token Usage – Request for Token Saving Options
- MCP startup incomplete (failed: codegraph)
- Codex Desktop: CLI-trusted PreCompact is not dispatched; blocking auto hook traps task in interrupted-turn loop
- Every time Codex operates my fuzzing workflow, it trips over its guardrails
- exec: avoid loading the full legacy rollout when recovering completed turn items
- core: MCP result sanitization deep-clones unchanged content blocks
- exec-server: streamed HTTP body notifications build an intermediate JSON value
- app-server: WebSocket notification fan-out serializes once per recipient
- close
- [Desktop] Model picker shows only 2 reasoning tiers for custom catalog model (DeepSeek V4 Flash) although catalog and app-server resolve 3 (low/high/max)
- [Feature Request] First-class support for Headless Thread Steering & Stable App-Server API for external workflow controllers
- macOS: app-server survives WindowServer restart, then Computer Use cannot launch helper
- TUI streaming tail briefly disappears before the finalized response appears in Ghostty
- Documented source build fails on macOS arm64: sandboxed V8 asset returns 404 and `codex-code-mode-host` is not built
- Codex Desktop: sidebar conversation order changes after switching tasks and resets after toggling Activity
- Support resolution-independent custom Pet spritesheets
- Codex App: Dictation transcribes “Yeah” with no speech after updating
- Old Codex App task hangs and even “hello” gets no response
- [Desktop/macOS] Opening an active Browser task blocks the app for ~31 seconds
- Stale encrypted compaction/reasoning breaks entire thread after key rotation (invalid_encrypted_content + array_above_max_length)
- Docs: rollout_budget documents stale reminder_interval_tokens key
- Feature request: search/filter in the /model picker
- [macOS] Computer Use Mail inspection hangs and drives Mail CPU high
- Remote SSH Codex reports quota exceeded despite remaining ChatGPT Codex credits
- Withdrawn by reporter
- Bank scheduled weekly resets instead of discarding remaining Codex usage
- Embed Micro Text Editor
- Automatic context compaction destroys context
- Make Codex aware of elapsed time between user turns and resumed threads
- Detect workspace drift before continuing stale plans
- Add evidence-backed completion reports for agent tasks
- Add a cross-agent intent map to prevent overlapping edits
- Maintain a project decision ledger with rationale and commit provenance
- Structured, cost-aware context checkpoints with a lossless operational tail
- Sync local skills, hooks, and settings to remote SSH environments
- sharepoint can upload
- [Codex Desktop][Windows] Split pane oscillates continuously near a resize breakpoint after switching to a thread with image preview
- [P0 enterprise] Literal glob chars in exact workspace paths break Computer Use; suggested /** fails
- [Windows] Work mode composer rejects plain drag-and-drop file attachments (Chat/Codex modes accept them); Shift+drag works
- Codex app doesn't render latex in markdown viewer
- Desktop-bundled Codex: guardian_subagent approvals reviewer enabled without consent; background memory jobs drain plan quota while idle
- Regression in 0.146.0: gpt-4o-mini sends unsupported reasoning.effort=none
- Desktop-bundled Codex: guardian_subagent approvals reviewer enabled without consent; background memory jobs drain plan quota while idle
- [macOS app] Crash after closing a printed PDF tab (EXC_BAD_ACCESS)
- Codex draining usage limits on the wrong model
- Add a compact conversation navigation rail to Chat and Work sessions
- Let explicit user tool/MCP choice override auto-triggered bundled skills
- GPT-5.6 Sol missing from the Codex desktop model picker for a ChatGPT Pro account
- [Windows] MCP App sandbox fails to load on Microsoft Store Codex 26.727.6591.0 (error 5, sandbox setup)
- Codex can’t run long processes
- Host-bound send reports missing AppServerManager after the target processes the message
- Severe memory growth while resuming a large local Codex thread on macOS
- [TUI] In-process app-server can deadlock during automatic skills refresh
- [Slack plugin] File-upload comments omit “Sent using @ChatGPT” attribution
- About high CPU and severe UI input lag
- Codex Desktop: Add a one-click “Enhance Prompt” action to the composer
- Windows/Android Remote shows folder basename instead of the saved Desktop project name
- Skill loader mislabels transient EMFILE ("too many open files") as "invalid SKILL.md files", with no retry
- Chrome extension only uses Codex/ChatGPT work platform. Not the normal chat
- Document project-scoped terminal pet selection with [tui].pet
- Windows: Codex ignores redirected Documents folder for projectless-chat workspaces
- [iOS][realtime voice] New voice sessions reopen the same thread and can interleave transcripts
- [macOS/iOS][realtime voice] Voice does not start correctly in existing Codex project threads
- [iOS][realtime voice] Mute can silence assistant audio and leaving the app stops speech
- [MCP Apps] Nested MCP calls inside functions.exec do not create renderable widget items
- Codex Desktop agent invokes PowerShell Set-Clipboard without an explicit clipboard request
- [Windows] Built-in image_gen unavailable in Codex Desktop and failed attempts consume usage quota
- [Windows] Workspace dependency reinstall fails on 260-character MAX_PATH extraction limit
- Make app-server thread unload delay configurable
- Computer Use locks an unlocked Mac after waking a sleeping display
- [Windows][WSL] Codex Desktop 26.727 becomes unusable after enabling WSL agent — packaged Linux binary returns Permission denied
- Windows desktop: bundled codex.exe app-server repeatedly killed with 0xC000013A (STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT) mid-turn; app broadcasts fatal_error_broadcasted and restarts
- Allow `/goal` commands to be edited with Esc like standard prompts
- Issue Report by Shaobang Sun
- False positive Cyber security notifications
- GPT‑5.5‑Cyber Codex entitlement mismatch after approval
- Add raw context-token counts to the configurable TUI status line
- macOS: Codex VSIX download is served as “Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage”
- Codex project chats become unusable with repeated “Request failed with status 404” after Word file upload error
- [App] Add user-confirmed model and reasoning routing for persistent task creation
- Allow exec rules to grant bounded permissions to matching commands
- [macOS] Toggle Bottom Panel (⌘J) does nothing in Codex
- Problem generating a non-sexual image
- Previously rendered text vertically jitters while responses are streaming
- `wait_agent` and `close_agent` report `completed: null` when a child `TurnComplete` contains an error
- Luna usage draining codex usage at the same speed as Sol despite no difference in the way it's used
- A single invalid UTF-8 rollout record makes the entire thread unreadable
- [macOS 26.5][26.727.51351] Composer dictation takes 3–17 seconds while ChatGPT Classic is fast
- codex exec --json: OTEL tool_result traces splice raw multi-line tool stdout into stderr, so stderr can carry text indistinguishable from the NDJSON protocol
- Chronicle stays enabled after a Pro → Plus downgrade, consuming the smaller allowance in the background
- Memory generation: no per-transcript size cap causes context-window failures, and defaults run quota down to 25%
Resolved issues (42)
- Codex Desktop keeps stale custom-model reasoning levels after restart (catalog low/high/max, task high/xhigh)
- Withdrawn
- Model Reverts to Terra Medium
- `codex exec --sandbox workspace-write` panics in `system-configuration` / `reqwest` / `opentelemetry-otlp` before prompt execution
- Upgrade `rmcp` dependency to 1.4.0 to fix MCP HTTP/Cloudflare connection issues
- Windows Codex Desktop approval rules match "powershell.exe -Command" instead of inner command
- Memory is enabled in config, but runtime injects read-only memory instructions that block saving learnings
- invalid_request_error after any prompt in some conversations
- TUI typing lag: synchronous palette and terminal-size queries block input
- Codex Desktop remote SSH connection does not show persisted remote sessions after app restart
- Codex Desktop: voice dictation shortcut starts in both main chat and side chat
- [VS Code extension / Linux] IpcRouterManager fails to start: EACCES creating /tmp/codex-ipc/ipc-<uid>.sock when directory is owned by another user
- fetch-codex-manual.mjs fails after codex-manual.md redirect drops x-content-sha256
- Archived chats show a Delete button, but deletion does not work
- rg is blocked by macOS
- App-server crashes on any tool call ("thread_tools" unknown feature key) — sudden onset, no local trigger
- Codex desktop apps return 403 for some requests, while regular quota-based requests work
- Codex Desktop causes high CPU usage and overheating on Apple Silicon Mac
- Codex Desktop frequently becomes unresponsive after updating to latest version on Windows
- Codex Desktop: Locked Computer Use hangs on macOS 26.6; SkyComputerUseService spins at high CPU
- Bundled $skill-creator skill is missing from Codex Desktop
- Codex Windows desktop app workspace corrupted after PC crash; WSL project maps to invalid C:\home path
- Codex desktop falsely reports “GitHub CLI not authenticated” on macOS
- File tree labels are overly truncated even when there is enough horizontal space
- Windows app: official pinned taskbar icon does not restore hidden main window after close-to-background
- Computer Use crashes on macOS 15.3 after ChatGPT update: missing _swift_task_addPriorityEscalationHandler
- Remote project new-thread composer no longer exposes New worktree
- Codex turn-diff tree refs break libgit2-based Git clients
- close
- [Desktop] Model picker shows only 2 reasoning tiers for custom catalog model (DeepSeek V4 Flash) although catalog and app-server resolve 3 (low/high/max)
- Codex Desktop: sidebar conversation order changes after switching tasks and resets after toggling Activity
- Withdrawn by reporter
- Desktop-bundled Codex: guardian_subagent approvals reviewer enabled without consent; background memory jobs drain plan quota while idle
- Codex app on Windows: WSL agent mode fails with: Error creating task Invalid request: AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- VS Code extension: full Review diff page crashes while inline diff works
- Codex Diff crashes with “Oops, an error has occurred” in VS Code on macOS
- [iOS][realtime voice] Mute can silence assistant audio and leaving the app stops speech
- [macOS/iOS][realtime voice] Voice does not start correctly in existing Codex project threads
- curated-plugin sync runs `git reset --hard` against the user's project repo
- Curated-plugin startup_sync can reset an unrelated repository (refs/codex/curated-sync, hook-bypassed)
- Treat git global pager options as unsafe for auto-approval
- [Windows][26.721.11231.0] App exits ~2.4s after launch after two renderer 0xC0000005 crashes