Digest / August 5, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 5, 2026
142 new issues filed ·
129 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (142)
- [Android Remote][WSL] Remote Voice hides workspace-creation failures
- [Android Remote][Realtime voice] One create_thread call creates 7–8 duplicate threads
- Add scoped owner authorization and false-positive recovery for sensitive operations
- [VS Code] First-class virtual workspace support with a non-breaking native-root transition
- Unable to install after clicking Update in the Codex app today
- Expose state-DB backfill owner identity or a sanctioned stale-backfill repair RPC
- Keyboard navigation shortcuts work only in the Priority section of the new activity view
- Windows Computer Use cannot capture AdsPower SunBrowser: contradictory identical-owner error
- The ChatGPT app is running very sluggishly.
- Codex CLI TUI content is clipped on very small screens
- high-frequency SQLite/WAL writes dominated by TRACE logs
- Memory writer sends hardcoded gpt-5.6-luna and gpt-5.6-terra requests to non-OpenAI model providers
- Support configuring remote_compaction per model
- Archived Chats Always Empty in Windows App (v26.730.61309)
- Windows Computer Use reuses a stale node_repl exec context across JS calls
- Cant see uploaded images in same chat but in later session
- Codex Desktop: first-class coordinator project role for cross-repository workflows
- Withdrawn by author
- [app] Newly created conversations do not appear in the Activity sidebar
- [Windows regression] Selected task with multiple active subagents freezes the app
- Codex Desktop auto-update breaks macOS Monterey support (build 6223 requires macOS 13)
- [Windows][Desktop] task list returns projectId=null for a valid directly bound local-project task
- ide context not work for codex on cursor
- Startup context eagerly injects inactive tool, plugin, app, and skill catalogs
- TUI: plugin marketplace sync cancels in-flight MCP server startups and orphans the spawned processes
- Regression: Fast mode is lost for resumed existing threads after app restart, while new threads still work
- Unable to Delete Older Codex Chats
- [Windows][26.730.7989.0] Computer Use fails before app selection with EPERM lstat on Codex runtime
- Codex App loses thread history after cross-thread delegation messages
- Emit OSC 9;4 progress reports so terminals can surface working/idle state
- [Windows app] Previously read completed threads become unread after restart and outrank active threads
- App Reliability, Project Management, and UI Issues
- [macOS] Chrome and Computer Use tools missing only in project threads after Desktop 26.730.61639 update
- spawn_agent rejects empty optional message/items fields as mutually exclusive
- Feature Request: Official Taskboard and Agent Orchestration Extension APIs for Codex
- Codex Desktop rehydrates nonexistent historical subagents as active whenever an affected task is opened
- Codex Desktop: completed subagents restore as Active after reload
- Windows Computer Use fails at EnumWindows with 0x80070003
- Codex Desktop: Persistent Plugin Panels and Native Thread Lifecycle/Navigation APIs
- [Bug] Live Voice transcribes same-machine playback audio as user speech
- thread/resume hangs forever when codex thread is stuck "active" with no running turn (0.146.0)
- Desktop app crashes after heartbeat automation enters invalid model-provider resume loop
- Windows standalone 0.146.0 launcher still cannot resolve sandbox setup and command-runner helpers
- macOS: ChatGPT process accumulates defunct children. Eventually causes: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable and posix_spawn failed.
- GitHub connector: add effective branch rules and policy-guarded merge
- skill-creator initializer generates invalid description frontmatter
- Computer Use can confirm the wrong dropdown option after fallback without validating the selected value
- Native goal continuation emits UUIDv4 turn IDs despite the app-server UUIDv7 contract
- [Windows][Voice] Empty voice placeholder cannot be archived after `no rollout found`
- macOS: same-version Chrome plugin cache reconciliation deletes chrome/latest while the plugin remains current
- Windows Desktop + VS Code: legacy thread history stops at an inner turn completion despite valid later records
- Show remote host battery level and charging status in Codex Mobile
- Codex Desktop activity can repeatedly crash macOS WindowServer in IOSurface/ScreenCapture path
- Automation sandbox cannot resolve DNS while host Terminal can
- [test] permission probe
- Codex app browser tool fails on macOS when Node reads System OpenSSL config
- Fast mode is not preserved after restarting the Codex desktop app
- ChatGPT desktop 26.730 installs on macOS 12 but requires macOS 13 at launch
- False-positive cybersecurity block interrupts authorized offline local QA task
- [Windows] Chrome plugin installed but native host and mcp__node_repl__js are missing
- [Windows][Codex App] Hidden avatar overlay receives all thread events unthrottled and amplifies long-session renderer/DWM lag
- Codex Mobile Remote: allow uploading arbitrary files to the connected workspace
- Codex Desktop omits codex_app project/thread tools with a custom Responses provider
- CLI documentation incorrectly states that `!` shell commands inherit sandbox settings
- [RIP-SEC] MCP OAuth login opens the server-supplied `authorization_endpoint` with `webbrowser::open` and no URL-scheme allowlist
- [RIP-SEC] Command safe-list keys on the executable basename, so `./cat` (an attacker-controlled file) is auto-approved without a prompt under `UnlessTrusted`
- [RIP-SEC] execpolicy `forbidden`/deny rules are bypassable by spelling argv[0] as an unregistered path (`/tmp/git` vs `git`)
- [RIP-SEC] MCP client does not cap the HTTP/SSE response body on the default (Legacy) request, allowing a malicious MCP server to exhaust client memory
- [RIP-SEC] workspace-write `.git` carveout does not cover nested repositories, so a sandboxed agent can plant a git hook that runs unsandboxed later
- [RIP-SEC] Windows sandbox: a not-yet-existing protected dir (`.codex`/`.git`/`.agents`) gets no deny rule, so a sandboxed agent can create and poison it
- [macOS 14.3] CUA service launch crash triggers PiP zombie-process loop
- Feature Request: Support non-versioned project-level context for Codex
- Windows 11 no token issue
- Blue activity dots are created on threads after app update
- Ctrl-Z then bg lets Codex TUI re-enter raw mode and corrupt the foreground shell
- Windows 11: WebSocket fails, HTTPS fallback is reset with OS error 10054, and Codex CLI cannot complete any prompt
- Abnormal Codex Token Consumption, Repeated Context-Compaction Loops, and Continuous Windows Commit Growth
- Codex fails to discover and report inherited AGENTS.md instructions from parent directories
- The computer use plugin cannot properly recognize interfaces outside Codex
- Problem downloading a conversation
- Problem downloading a conversation
- [Windows app] German locale: new-task composer placeholder regressed to English "do anything"
- Problem loading a conversation
- Global memory consolidation remains pending and cannot be reclaimed
- Codex Desktop voice session disconnects after the app is in the background
- Codex Desktop Mermaid state diagrams render overlapping transition labels
- Just subscribed But still asked to upgrad
- Duplicate of #37029: Computer Use plugin cannot initialize on Windows: EPERM lstat on Codex install directory
- [Windows][WSL][26.730.8199.0] Integrated terminal silently fails before PTY/WSL startup; bottom and side panel cannot open
- Windows 10 / RDP: ChatGPT-Codex app exits immediately after launch after update
- Codex App retains the same device instance identity after migrating/cloning a Mac
- Deleted account's personal data stays with OpenAI
- Bring back separate ChatGPT and Codex desktop workflows (or independent windows)
- Windows Desktop updates repeatedly reset WSL configuration and reintroduce slow startup state
- Library prepared upload helper fails during temporary-directory cleanup
- Allow side agents to communicate with the thread’s main agent
- [Bug] GPT-5.6 Sol routes agent wait calls to unrelated functions.wait after spawn_agent
- [macOS] Computer Use PiP refresh loop can steal foreground focus under Stage Manager
- Withdrawn by author
- Curated marketplace review request: Research Registry plugin
- [BUG] The default read-only mounting mode is too strict; even chained files cannot be created.
- [skill-feedback] openai-docs blocks current official Codex docs redirect
- create_thread validation is not synchronized with app-server model/list
- Compaction can lose recoverable tool state after function output truncation
- Custom model_providers: /models discovery requires undocumented internal schema; support the standard OpenAI list as a fallback
- Closed
- Archived Codex tasks on remote hosts become undiscoverable
- Codex Desktop placed a persistent project in a managed workspace that was later reset
- Android ChatGPT app no longer opens old inactive Codex chats
- [Web] Generated file downloads fail at /backend-api/estuary/content with ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE
- crash
- Issue with Windows Sandbox File Issue
- OpenAI API key setup: local destination confirmation returns declined without showing a prompt
- bytes/4 estimate overwrites measured last_token_usage after compaction, shifting auto-compact decisions for non-ASCII sessions
- RECONNECTING
- Update Amazon Bedrock GPT-5.6 context window to 1M tokens
- A response.completed without a usage block silently skips all token totals and the rollout budget
- 019f5bce-c614-7a13-bd5e-df95283e3130
- Persistent Dock badge from orphaned scheduled-task unread IDs
- response.completed usage that fails serde parse is treated as a retryable stream error and re-issues the whole sampling request
- Mobile Remote only displays direct chats and omits active SSH-backed projects from the paired Windows Codex app
- Installed and enabled plugin is visible, but its declared skills are missing from the session catalog
- I had to remind codex that it was not claude
- Model response pinning
- [Desktop] Add reset and snap-to-position controls for floating Pad and voice mode
- Codex Desktop: active threads change effective model without a user action
- Windows desktop Codex flashes visible command-prompt windows during work
- Persistent incorrect “1” badge on ChatGPT/Codex macOS Dock icon
- [iOS Remote] Successful single-file apply_patch omits the changed-files card
- macOS: Chrome plugin manifest points to missing `chrome/latest` native host after reinstall
- Ultra reasoning isn’t available with GPT-5.6 on Bedrock
- Severe false positives in Codex cybersecurity request filtering
- Add pet support to the Codex IDE extension for VS Code
- # [Windows] Desktop app crashes ~10s after UI loads, reproducible with a completely empty CODEX_HOME (0xc0000409, utility process)
- [Windows Desktop] Non-code artifact preview remains stuck on first-opened version until app restart
- Suspected silent model routing: selected 5.5 High now behaves like 5.6 Sol Max
- Request to submit deferred MCP discovery fix
- [Windows App 26.730.8199] System-wide desktop redraw freezes while mouse cursor still moves
- Android Codex Remote workflow has degraded: phone-based development no longer works reliably, and selected 5.5 appears to behave like 5.6
- Activity view: snooze chats from Priority
- @documents silently substitutes Liberation Serif for explicitly requested Times New Roman in generated legal documents
- Windows Computer Use approval prompt never appears; launch_app fails with `node_repl exec context not found`
Resolved issues (129)
- [Windows] New Activity view ignores task-navigation shortcuts (Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown and Ctrl+1–9)
- Codex CLI TUI content is clipped on very small screens
- Archived Chats Always Empty in Windows App (v26.730.61309)
- [Windows Desktop] New local project cannot create first task: "Error creating task: Timeout" across Sol and Terra
- ChatGPT desktop app crashes when starting a new task and remains laggy after relaunch
- Codex VSCode IDE extension crash when given prompt to test MCP tools
- ChatGPT desktop upgrade leaves Remote Control daemon on an older Codex runtime, hiding new models in Remote projects
- no biscuit no service when Codex Apps mcp try to load
- [Windows] Codex App times out when creating a task or starting a conversation
- Feature request: allow custom file jump handlers for IDEs and projects
- macOS: local network access stays blocked after denying the first prompt, even with the permission enabled in System Settings
- Black overlay blocks Codex Plugins/Skills screen on Mac desktop app
- [Bug / Reliability] App unable to process requests / Auth 503 errors during server degradation
- close_agent can hang indefinitely on previously interrupted subagent, blocking parent thread
- Windows Computer shows up in Android app but shows unable to connect
- Changing edited lines with a slot machine effect
- Windows Store Codex app fails to start for Windows usernames containing non-ASCII characters.
- Cannot expand long commands for approval
- No output from commands
- Windows app 26.422.8496.0: all shell commands fail with "batch file arguments are invalid" after update
- Codex App: GPT-5.3 Codex Spark fails with "Unsupported parameter: reasoning.summary"
- `spacetime publish` panics in `system_configuration` when run from Codex tool context on macOS
- Bug: OPENAI_API_KEY env var silently overrides OAuth token, causing misleading 401 error
- Codex CLI login stuck on 'Sign in with ChatGPT' screen
- Weekly limit reset date changed from Nov 3 to Nov 7th
- WebSocket upgrade succeeds then server closes with 1008 Policy (falls back to HTTPS)
- Enhancement: interactive ask_user_question tool (tabbed questionnaire UI)
- Display dot files and folders (.agents/.codex etc)
- Ability to disable automatic app updates
- Remote SSH shows "Current working directory missing" on App if project path involves Upper Case
- [FEATURE] Allow disabling built-in skills via config.toml
- Per-project MCP server configuration in .codex/config.toml or mcp.json (avoid wrapper scripts)
- Make Codex CLI sessions available in Codex desktop history
- Connect to Codex CLI from the ChatGPT desktop app
- Background Terminal Sessions
- Make config.toml profiles selectable via CLI
- Custom chat titles for Codex
- TODO list for long running tasks
- Add interactive session-management for Codex CLI:
- Allow binding to local addresses
- Model does not see non-zero exit code from command
- MCP tool select/filter/group
- Macos 27 beta3 cannot submit task
- Feature request: Support for plugin marketplaces
- Add mcp search tool, lazy mcp load, reduce mcp tool occupying a lot of context
- Enable MCP Settings Per Profile
- Create mobile codex app that can talk to codex on my local computer
- Codex app: Enable thoughts display
- Feature Request: Add option to display reasoning summaries (thinking blocks) in Codex macOS app
- Why typescript sdk outputSchema doesn't work
- Codex App: Release notes?
- Hyperlinks not clickable
- "Create branch here" button does not appear for worktree thread
- Business workspace account reports no usage, but receiving "You've hit your usage limit"
- Codex Android app and Codex daemon
- Add "Sign in with Device Code" to handle `localhost:1455` OAuth callback issues
- Allow for continuing sessions from the CLI in the App Vice/Versa
- Extend GPT-5.4-style tool search and deferred loading to all MCP server tools to save tokens (-47 %)
- Windows Sandbox feature required but cannot be installed - Codex fails to initialize
- VS Code extension: high renderer CPU in non-git workspace caused by repeated git stable-metadata worker loop
- Support global/default model configuration for subagents in config.toml
- Unable to initiate or continue new or existing chats ChatGPT App. Complete service outage
- Codex Desktop App — “failed to resume task” on all sessions after service incident
- Codex Desktop flickers/shakes for several seconds when switching threads/projects. Video attached
- Mac OS could not open codex because it's malware
- Server-side quota accounting over-reports consumption after 5h reset: Pro 5h limit burned in ~41 min / ~1.35M tokens
- Shortcut description to paste image
- docs request: publish an official agent teams workflow reference
- docs request: surface agents.max_threads in official config reference
- Fork conversation from a message in transcript without affecting thread
- Tokens usage breakdown
- User markdown not rendering
- Withdrawn by author
- Hyperlinks not rendered properly and non-clickable now in VS Code extension
- Codex should treat canceled or denied tool calls as first-class context
- x-codex-turn-metadata header with non-ASCII git remote URLs causes 400 Bad Request on Azure OpenAI
- Let us set custom sub-agent names
- Expose root/subagent metadata in hook payloads
- Add Claude Code-style reusable subagent types to MultiAgentV2 spawn_agent
- Codex desktop app hides Plugins UI while plugin runtime and CLI marketplace are available
- Cannot force UTF-8
- Codex Desktop Projects sidebar shows "No chats" for projects with older non-archived conversations
- Newly configured stdio MCP server is enabled but absent from assistant tool manifest
- Feature request: Full Computer Use support for Codex Desktop on Windows
- Feature request: make MCP apps work end-to-end in the Codex GUI
- Codex Desktop does not render MCP Apps inline UI resources even when tool result includes mcp_app_resource_uri
- Feature request: native OSC 8 clickable terminal links in interactive TUI
- Allow request_user_input in Default mode for interview-style document workflows
- Allow per-subagent model/provider/profile selection
- Model instructions exclude correct syntax for specifying subagent model
- Cannot overwrite subagent's model when spawning via LLM
- Custom subagents in .codex/agents are not accessible from tool-backed Codex sessions as docs imply
- Add support for “Open with Codex” in OS Finder / Explorer
- [Codex Desktop] Add an option to show/hide hidden folders in the file tree
- Codex Desktop file tree hides project dot-directories such as .codex while search can find them
- view_image requires user to explicitly paste path to image to be viewed
- Codex App Fast Mode should be configurable per thread/session instead of globally
- Add global search across thread titles and conversation content
- Codex Desktop 26.527: `Copy as Markdown` disappeared from the Copy menu
- Codex Desktop: add voice mode for interview prep and spoken project walkthroughs
- Codex CLI timeout because of sandboxed environment
- Windows desktop: `list_threads` advertised but returns “No handler registered for tool”
- Split desktop app chat+work/codex tabs into three separate chat/work/codex tabs
- macOS: ChatGPT process accumulates defunct children. Eventually causes: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable and posix_spawn failed.
- [test] permission probe
- Fast mode is not preserved after restarting the Codex desktop app
- [Windows][Codex App] Hidden avatar overlay receives all thread events unthrottled and amplifies long-session renderer/DWM lag
- Add `--oauth [URL]` to codex mcp add for configuring OAuth resource
- why the image generation feature in the ChatGPT API is so much worse than the web version.
- [Windows app] System-wide mouse/input lag from repeated PowerShell WMI process snapshots
- Problem downloading a conversation
- Problem downloading a conversation
- Just subscribed But still asked to upgrad
- Duplicate of #37029: Computer Use plugin cannot initialize on Windows: EPERM lstat on Codex install directory
- Codex VS Code Extension – Diff view fails to open
- Windows Codex app repeatedly spawns WMI process snapshots causing high CPU usage
- [Windows Desktop] electron-sampler retries failing Win32_Process snapshots indefinitely and can cause process buildup
- Windows app triggers repeated WMI-Activity 5858 errors on launch
- Windows desktop: starting a task can saturate WMI Provider Host CPU
- Windows Desktop: Codex causes sustained WMI Provider Host high CPU usage
- Codex triggers high CPU usage in WMI Provider Host on Windows after startup
- [P0 regression] Windows desktop launch saturates all CPU cores via WmiPrvSE (26.715.10079.0)
- Withdrawn by author
- [Windows Desktop] Full-process PowerShell/WMI polling remains in 26.721.4979.0 and contributes to system-wide input lag
- Closed
- macOS: Chrome plugin manifest points to missing `chrome/latest` native host after reinstall
- [macOS][26.727.51351] ChatGPT history stuck on skeletons; /conversations?conversation_origin=tpp&limit=100 returns HTTP 500 timeout
- Add pet support to the Codex IDE extension for VS Code
- Windows regression: Chat / Quick Chat sidebar entry missing in Codex 26.715.12143