Digest / August 4, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 4, 2026
116 new issues filed ·
104 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (116)
- [iOS Remote] Response action labels wrap character-by-character on narrow screens
- [App][macOS][Subagents] Unknown-conversation event desync causes endless image-inspection loop and no export
- Full access mode doesn't work after the app restart
- Windows desktop: multiple existing conversations get stuck on an infinite loading spinner; Feedback also hangs
- Codex App sidebar: reverse active and inactive tab background hierarchy
- Feature Request: Arabic Audio Transcription to Existing Excel Workbook
- Sites deployment falsely reports nodejs_compat flag after it was removed
- Windows desktop primary renderer soft-reloads every ~84 seconds while main process stays alive
- exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests
- Codex Desktop: switching Local to Cloud cannot switch back; summary panel fails to render
- MultiAgentV2: child stalls after task_started and Windows TUI exits during wait_agent
- exec_command never returns and yield_time_ms never fires: tool call orphaned with no output record
- [macOS][Desktop 26.727.51351] Long thread intermittently opens on early history despite successful pagination
- Codex Desktop: Computer Use follows the foreground Codex project window and can act in another project's terminal
- Codex Mobile remote prompt stuck in Status Sending after steer blocks further input
- Why does the Codex app expose image_gen while Codex CLI filters it out with the same configuration?
- Idle computer-use process continuously handles UIA events, causing system-wide freezes
- Primary-runtime presentation helpers resolve node_modules from cwd when HOME is unset on Windows
- Excel live-control should discover list_document_sessions before recommending reinstall
- Feature request: Native read-only second-opinion Advisor for high-impact decisions
- TOO SLOW!!! To Initiated CODEX
- Codex Diff resolves missing review artifacts and crashes in editor-diff-page
- [macOS][26.727.51351] ChatGPT history stuck on skeletons; /conversations?conversation_origin=tpp&limit=100 returns HTTP 500 timeout
- why the image generation feature in the ChatGPT API is so much worse than the web version.
- Follow-up: typed, evidence-aware CrossThreadEvent contract for safe peer-thread orchestration
- config.toml rewritten without BOM corrupts non-ASCII project paths, app fails to boot
- Add a final-answer-only / quiet transcript mode to the CLI TUI
- ChatGPT usage view intermittently disappears; repeated refreshes trigger blocking rate-limit modal
- history Command for Session Navigation
- Unexplained Usage
- Sync live updates back to an open CLI session after continuing it in the desktop app
- [Windows][WSL] Mapped drive to \\wsl.localhost is incorrectly translated to /mnt/<drive>, making valid WSL workspaces inaccessible
- Codex Desktop SSH: image on first turn closes app-server before turn/start
- Linux restricted-read permission profiles silently accept writes via ephemeral tmpfs
- Codex Desktop renders heartbeat status XML as visible chat text
- Plugin manifest cannot declare user-supplied config, leaving credentials with no input path
- Plugin manifest cannot ship agent roles
- Built-in image generation repeatedly fails with a generic network error
- macOS menu bar usage popover shows stale data until the in-app usage view is refreshed
- [app] Activity view does not highlight the currently open conversation in the sidebar
- Codex CLI feedback — uploaded thread 019fcbf3-3fc5-7a92-b610-fbc0a952f95f
- Investigate active MCP transport closure after transient HTTP errors during tools/call
- Zellij switch-away leaves Codex TUI on a stale viewport while the turn completes in the rollout
- [Windows] Desktop and npm CLI alternate elevated sandbox marker state, causing repeated setup/UAC prompts
- app-server turn/start returns a submission ID when it steers into an active turn
- I am a fan of CHATGPT. I recently switched to a new computer, but I am unable to use the client's CHATGPT on the new computer
- Codex Desktop: Computer Use duplicates physical keyboard and paste events system-wide on macOS
- Thread metadata updates and unarchive can bypass the per-thread writer lock
- https://chatgpt.com/share/6a71b843-4fcc-83eb-8eb5-42706097b7e0
- Codex Desktop: gpt-5.6-sol session identifies itself as GPT-5.5
- VS Code extension: support multiple independent Codex views in the same window
- Voice Mode on mobile cannot read existing Codex threads
- Missing end-conversation, microphone, and speaker controls in Voice Mode on iOS
- Codex literally ruins my MacBook Air M3 16/512 performance
- macOS Desktop hides Remote setup when ChatGPT login coexists with an env_key custom provider
- Doing its own thing again - Same bug from a few weeks ago not fixed!
- Expose AI_AGENT=codex to shell subprocesses
- Feature request: semantic overview of Codex threads across projects
- Is there a documented auth contract for third-party clients using a ChatGPT subscription with the Responses API?
- [macOS Desktop] Built-in image_gen missing after auto-update to build 6119
- Add a feature to pin a conversation within a group
- Codex Desktop: make “Report a bug / Send feedback” easy to discover
- iOS Remote only exposes a capped subset of sessions from connected hosts
- Codex Desktop blocks one LAN destination while allowing another on macOS
- [macOS] Opening a completed subagent crashes the Codex App UI
- Codex Desktop Windows: no working keyboard shortcut to paste into integrated terminal
- Display issue when interacting with subagents
- Remote Compact Task Blocking GPT 5.3-Spark from Working After Usage Limit Reached.
- OAuth authorization code is received but never exchanged for remote streamable-HTTP MCP server
- Refills vaporized
- Built-in Browser session mismatch: user sees authenticated HubSpot, agent sees login page
- plugin-creator validator rejects supported .app.json required binding
- Desktop task API: ephemeral read-only fork through an exact completed turn
- [Windows Desktop] Selected recent task stays blank while collaboration hydration starves app-server queue
- Bring MCP OAuth callback pages in line with the existing Codex login UX
- CLI TUI composer has no background fill over SSH/tmux while diff backgrounds render correctly
- [app][macOS] ChatGPT uses 3–5 GB RAM and makes an 8 GB Mac unusable even with no project open
- Pg up and Pg down keys doesn't work properly in Codex CLI
- Codex should require explicit approval before stateful infrastructure mutations
- Crash codex CLI in Windows during the execution of a Python script
- A repeated `turn/interrupt` can stay pending indefinitely after its turn was interrupted (aborted turns stay "active" in app-server thread state)
- Codex searched my machine for code to execute
- ChatGPT iOS Codex remote: Send stays disabled with text and persists across new threads
- Codex Desktop: updating a shared Business workspace plugin fails because upload-url returns 404
- ChatGPT iOS Codex remote: Send stays disabled with text and persists across new threads
- Private remote MCP plugin can appear installed or connected while Codex exposes no callable tools
- [Windows] Generated file download links missing in desktop app but visible in browser
- Work mode context regression: established architecture is overwritten and contradictory tool output is treated as fact
- Inconsistent behavior
- [BUG] Codex executed its own safety instructions from a rollout JSONL, deleting the Windows HOME directory
- PostToolUse replacement is ignored for code-mode tool results
- MCP tools silently unavailable with llama-server backends — add option to flatten namespace tool specs to functions
- Add an option to ignore the voice chat hotkey while another app is fullscreen
- macOS Remote Control cannot be enabled
- Browser site permission remains blocked after rule deletion and restart
- Codex Desktop Windows apply_patch fails with CryptUnprotectData after creating file
- gpt-5.6-sol/terra/luna: multi_agent_version=v1 override (per #31882 workaround) still doesn't expose spawn_agent against a custom model_provider on 0.146.0
- [macOS] Computer Use and BUZZ ACP continue after Codex is closed
- Gracefully fall back when `fs.watch()` is unsupported on SMB/network filesystems
- Codex Desktop does not request or diagnose required macOS Local Network permission
- Windows desktop: `list_threads` advertised but returns “No handler registered for tool”
- Windows ChatGPT app generates incorrect local file hyperlink for Work artefacts
- Remote Control created-thread card loses source host and opens child task on controller-local host
- macOS Codex Desktop runaway task worker and app-server consume 12+ GB RAM with sustained high CPU
- Built an HTML dashboard in a project - now all code, skills and session work is not longer housed locally or in outputs.
- Multi-agent prompt contains conflicting delegation guidance
- Apps instructions refer to nonexistent `tools_search` tool name
- [Windows] New Activity view ignores task-navigation shortcuts (Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown and Ctrl+1–9)
- Codex Micro Reasoning-only dial changes effort but no longer opens the picker/slider
- [Windows][26.727.6591.0] Avoid creating unused avatar-overlay renderer and bound renderer lifecycle
- [app][macOS][26.727.51351] browser_crashpad_handler SIGTRAPs 2ms after launch, launchd respawns it, Crashpad/pending fills disk at ~17GB/day
- [app][Windows][Voice] Workstation lock terminates active realtime Voice and can mislabel it inactive
- Codex Desktop Browser Use iab bootstrap fails with Cannot redefine property: process
- Benign work on hypervisor automation triggers safety check
- App-server: propagate originating client input ID to tool execution context
- TUI scrollback corruption in Windows Terminal
Resolved issues (104)
- [Windows Desktop GUI] Active plan card and step progress are lost after interrupt and continue
- MultiAgentV2: child stalls after task_started and Windows TUI exits during wait_agent
- Bug: Pressing Cmd+C to copy selected text resets the scroll position to the bottom on macOS
- Codex Desktop crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS seconds after in-app Browser Use debugger attaches
- Codex CLI scroll view jump on type and queued messages steering too hard
- Codex sub-agent spawn supports per-launch reasoning_effort, but tool schema/docs make agents think it cannot be changed
- Task creation timeout, no-active-thread error, and desktop freezes on Windows (26.707.72221)
- Mac app opens in "ChatGPT Work" interface instead of standard personal interface after update
- Windows Codex app: Browser plugin can attach to tab, but DOM/screenshot APIs fail because codex app-server cannot start
- My conversations are getting deleted accidentally
- Codex Chrome Plugin: extension-host not running, node_repl MCP tool unavailable in session
- Linux sandbox blocks local X11 AF_UNIX connect when network_access=false
- CPU usage problem
- Codex Remote/mobile reports quota exceeded while direct CLI works on same machines
- Computer Use fails on Windows: @oai/sky package exports blocks computer_use_client_base.js
- Codex Desktop in-app Browser Use runtime reports virtual clipboard missing until bootstrapped from Chrome runtime
- codex keeps trying to run powershell command that bitdefender blocks
- VS Code extension: infinite reconnect loop + "stream disconnected before completion"
- Phone number formatting bug for +251 adds extra leading zero and prevents verification code delivery
- Enter/Backspace act twice in kitty (not in tmux; TUI2 unaffected)
- app-server: turn never finalised after item/completed with zero outstanding requests/items (stdio, 0.144.3) — caller times out at 300s and retries the whole turn
- Windows Codex app: bundled node.exe fails with Access is denied, breaking Node REPL and Browser Use plugin
- Responses in Codex cannot be scrolled through
- Codex CLI v0.146.0 returns "Invalid type for 'input'" for every prompt
- Codex iOS app: "Network connection was lost" repeatedly when connecting to remote SSH host (codex-cli 0.130 on Debian 12)
- Windows app WSL agent mode fails to find bundled CLI and may launch Windows codex.exe via CODEX_CLI_PATH
- 0.144.0: codex-code-mode-host is missing
- Codex bug report link is broken over two lines so one must edit it to make it work
- Python SDK openai-codex-cli-bin missing manylinux aarch64 wheel
- Support additionalContext in PreToolUse hooks or clarify Claude-style hook parity
- Desktop app: explicit cross-thread orchestration over existing thread/* and turn/* primitives
- Support otel metrics exporter
- Support pasting screenshots/images directly into Codex CLI
- Add codex exec review: headless code review
- Multi-Window Support for macOS
- Eclipse AssistAI MCP tool calls fail with "Unexpected response type" from 0.139.0 onward
- Windows Desktop regression: chat history for projects on mapped network drives disappears from sidebar after updating to 26.608.12217
- macOS Codex Desktop update regression: service_tier default rejected and model selector unavailable
- Computer Use / node_repl fails on Windows: missing sandboxPolicy
- windows - setting for CRLF
- macOS code_sign_clone directories leak ~1GB per launch, never cleaned up
- Chat is missing from the left sidebar
- Projects Missing in the New ChatGPT/Code App
- Codex CLI 0.143.0 duplicates tool names, causing exec_command/apply_patch failures
- Codex CLI 0.143.0 duplicates tool namespace/name: shell_command becomes shell_commandshell_command on Windows
- Codex stating new version of codex required when in most recent version
- codex CLI hangs at `_dyld_start` on macOS 26 (Tahoe), never reaches main()
- Windows Codex APP installation error
- VS Code extension fails on multi-user Linux server with EACCES on /tmp/codex-ipc/*.sock
- codex-network-proxy doesn't work with exec and interactive mode
- Session does not persist across dev container rebuilds
- VSCode: Add a project to use codex
- Unable to send message
- Unable to send message
- Codex App Remote SSH fails on macOS remote because bootstrap uses GNU-style chmod --
- App not usable
- This model is not supported when using X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite.
- macOS sandbox: Turbopack next build completes work but does not exit, leaving .next/lock open
- Codex Desktop ambient_suggestions consumes ~70k tokens in the background
- Stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- Codex App automations can disappear or show daily schedules as weekly-all-days
- Browser Use policy blocks 1688.com and AliExpress entirely, preventing authorized business workflows
- Codex Windows Chrome Integration Broken After Recent Update
- Codex Desktop macOS does not expose node_repl or bundled Chrome tools despite enabled config
- Codex Desktop exposes stale ghost conversations that cannot be resumed or archived
- [Windows] Codex app hangs after Codex Micro gate activation.
- Windows sandbox setup refresh failures despite healthy doctor
- Codex desktop: non-default model effort resets before the first message
- GPT-5.6 cache_write_tokens are dropped from TokenUsage and rollout JSONL
- Codex Web cannot open PRs
- Remote SSH Codex reports quota exceeded despite remaining ChatGPT Codex credits
- Frequent "Context compacting" despite the low reported usage in UI
- ChatGPT iOS Codex remote: Send stays disabled with text and persists across new threads
- CLI trust prompt exits when split terminal Device Attributes tail is read as input
- PostToolUse replacement is ignored for code-mode tool results
- Codex Desktop blocks one LAN destination while allowing another on macOS
- Sync CLI and app-server sessions
- Permissions dropdown shows loading indicator (wavy colour effect) for no apparent reason
- Skill.md text not rendering in Windows app in Windows mode
- Allow granular control of App/Plugin permissions
- Rate limit reset reduces remaining daily usage for those with high amounts left
- Auto-review rejects using codex exec as it would send content to an untrusted external service
- Start new chat button doesn't switch folder
- Codex App in WSL reports incorrect diff summary in side panel
- Codex Windows App takes forever to load
- Sending test chat fails on Codex Windows WSL
- Windows App remote control skills list is incorrectly the Windows list when in WSL mode
- Codex remote shows Auto review as permissions (matching the Windows app) then switches to Custom (config.toml) after hitting send on the chat
- Codex Windows App in WSL mode chats are not resumable in WSL TUI
- Windows App in WSL mode incorrectly uses Windows config.toml, not the WSL config.toml
- Windows App in WSL mode incorrectly uses Windows AGENTS.md, not the WSL AGENTS.md
- Copy not available on Android
- Windows Sandbox setup doesn't prompt UAC popup
- Realtime voice not on Windows App but appears in settings search
- GPT 5.5 is the model selected but usage shows a lot of GPT 5.4
- Codex app doesn't restart after update
- Archive doesn't work on windows WSL
- Commands do not return on powershell on 0.142.5
- CLI thinks I'm on a Lite plan (I am on 20x and have never seen "Pro Lite" marketed anywhere)
- Clicking fork button give no spinning indicator showing it's working
- GPT Live not available after update
- Usage ticking down after killing sessions
- CLI freezes on FocusGained in Zellij while requerying terminal palette
- Codex Desktop Browser Use iab bootstrap fails with Cannot redefine property: process