Digest / August 8, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 8, 2026
113 new issues filed ·
11 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (113)
- VS Code Remote-SSH: API-key session invalidates ChatGPT Business OAuth session
- Urgent data loss: Codex cleanup deleted pinned task rollout files, leaving orphaned threads
- Codex sidebar fails with "couldn't load its resources", webview font blocked by CSP (font-src)
- macOS app 26.803 refocus reloads Chat sidebar and triggers repeated conversation 429s
- Feature Request: “Ask in side chat” option missing
- Codex extension startup deadlocks when account identity requests remain pending instead of falling back offline
- Windows CLI 0.147.0 rejects apply_patch inside Git linked worktree as outside project
- Codex loses established safety boundary during incremental long-context requests
- GPT-5.6 Sol leaks literal <thinking> tool-planning text as visible assistant messages in CLI and Codex App
- [Codex Desktop Windows Bug] Path normalization error with SUBST mapped drive triggers frequent crashes (no issues on macOS)
- App-server still drops remote-control clients when outbound queue fills (128 messages) — #18203 fix missed the code path
- Codex App cannot execute Docker container tests despite Docker being available on the host
- Codex App shows raw ** for assistant-generated bold text at CJK punctuation boundaries
- Usage abnormal drop
- [Codex App] Existing task becomes systemError and cannot resume after usage-limit response
- Why on earth do you think that it is OK to spam me?
- Stale app-server survives CLI update and causes 0.147.0 TUI to use pre-0.147 `spawn_agent` model filtering
- Hooks spawned by the app-server daemon cannot identify the client terminal, breaking terminal-targeting hooks
- [ChatGPT Work web] Cloud Browser tab is created but UI never surfaces; CDP refresh times out
- Add Model/Speed/Subagent count to activity view sidebar
- [Windows 11][26.803.5235.0] Renderer OOM auto-reload leaves Codex stuck on loading screen while app-server tasks continue
- Appshots block disallowed purchase/order-history pages (expected policy behavior)
- Regression in VS Code extension 26.803.41515 on Linux Remote-SSH: Codex fails to load resources, any earlier version works
- [Linux] Interactive Codex TUI freezes entire desktop; `codex exec` works normally (0.146.1 and 0.147.0)
- [Linux] Interactive Codex TUI freezes entire desktop; `codex exec` works normally (0.146.1 and 0.147.0)
- [App][Browser] Synthetic typing does not update the Angular/DevExtreme form model
- Local execution tool routing failure in the current Codex session
- [macOS regression] Automatic-update opt-out is overwritten on startup in 26.803.41515
- Codex Agents keep re-requesting Linear MCP access after it is granted
- macOS desktop: primary window stuck on loading screen while tasks continue; New Window recovers but browser state is lost
- chat open in new window shows something went wrong
- Cannot use multiple terminal sessions
- Cant open windows apps from chatgpt
- [App regression] PDF and document annotations submit immediately instead of batching
- Enter should insert a newline in Vim Insert mode
- [App][Scheduled Tasks] Thread-management calls hang until a foreground message is sent
- response bug --“MATRIX_MULTIPLICATION_ROW_COLUMN_RULE”
- Codex sidebar: group conversation history by project before date
- Windows: turn-diff checkpoint refs exceed path limit and break Git operations
- [App regression] “Add to chat” disappears for selected response text while the response is streaming
- Bug: Markdown renderer displays LaTeX formulas incorrectly in Windows App 26.803.41515
- [Desktop remote] Full Access conflict-merges with inherited root deny and bricks the task
- Codex desktop rehydrates closed, terminal subagents as Working after restart
- Interrupted conversation without error message
- Allow image attachments when answering request_user_input questions
- Codex desktop app does not consistently repopulate project thread tree after restart until threads are manually navigated
- Qonto MCP regression in 0.147.0: startup completes without caching or exposing tools
- macOS app quits on launch after update: managed app-server daemon stays on old version (0.143.0 vs bundled 0.147.0-alpha.6.5) -> initialize handshake timeout
- tui text rendering issue , in c++
- [Desktop Remote/SSH] Opening a cross-linked task silently downgrades the remote thread from Full Access
- Isolated ChatGPT exec with gpt-5.6-luna fails before first turn across CLI 0.146.0 and 0.147.0
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send message while response is generating; ChatGPT Web allows it
- [Chat] Official product research misses learn.chatgpt.com/docs and over-relies on Help Center
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send message while response is generating; ChatGPT Web allows it
- Codex CLI 0.147.0 standalone Windows installation.
- Windows Desktop command runner exposes duplicate Path and PATH process variables
- Paginated history can reconstruct completed turns as “interrupted” on resume
- Windows TUI drops non-BMP Unicode characters on paste/input
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send message while response is generating; ChatGPT Web allows it
- [macOS][Chat] Existing conversations can get stuck loading in desktop app while the same chat loads normally on web
- [Unified Desktop/GitHub] Align ChatGPT Desktop vs Codex taxonomy across tracker, templates, labels, docs, and support
- Feature Request: Chinese (Simplified) UI Localization for Codex Desktop App
- [Feedback Platform] Add an OpenAI-native issue tracker and official reporting app/plugin with trackable cases
- [Windows] Desktop app 26.803.41515: memory leak → silent crashes, UI desyncs from backend, project threads never load
- [Contributor Credits] Reward substantial verified bug-reporting work with additional Work/Codex usage
- TUI renders an empty row when a separator space lands at the wrap boundary
- Codex Security: recoverable finalization schema error permanently fails completed scan
- [Desktop/macOS] Archived delegated tasks lose semantic titles and expose internal markup
- [Windows] Computer Use returns no apps/windows and launch_app fails with 0x80070490
- [Desktop/macOS] Forked tasks retain parent metadata but lose “Continued from chat” link
- Codex App branch switch uses a different worktree than the task terminal
- Windows sandbox inconsistently fails to start PowerShell with CreateProcessAsUserW error 5
- Windows global dictation repeatedly starts/cancels on hold and silently fails to paste into external apps
- Desktop app: all exec commands fail with "Failed to create unified exec process: No such file or directory (os error 2)"
- [Windows] Computer Use list_windows/list_apps fail with EnumWindows 0x80070003 when interrupt marker path is absent (@oai/sky 0.6.2)
- Feature request: high-visibility task-completion signal in the unified Codex app
- [macOS][Computer Use] Native Finder-to-app file drop is not delivered
- session renders properly in codex cli but improperly in chatgpt remote (android)
- Windows: codex-code-mode-host opens a visible Windows Terminal window
- Goal/subagent workflows can spend hours expanding process scaffolding without production progress
- [macOS] “Default app” does not open Markdown files in Obsidian
- Windows Store app exits silently (code 0) when launched with no command-line arguments; launches fine with any argument
- `cwd` in `UnifiedExecApprovalKey` makes `ApprovedForSession` grants silently directory-scoped
- [macOS] Voice bubble rendering corruption and truncated Bluetooth response audio
- Linear-created Codex Cloud sessions time out with new_ack_timeout
- [Windows][GPT-5.6 Sol] Fresh Codex Desktop session rapidly reaches 90% of 258K context and auto-compacts with repeated tool calls
- [Windows Desktop] Preserve viewport position when reasoning/progress blocks collapse
- PNG Viewer Failing
- [Windows][26.803.5235.0] Empty provisional realtime voice thread emits null realtimeSessionId and never reaches connected
- Request for usage credit — Codex Windows elevated sandbox defect
- Completed Windows Codex App dictation saves transcript locally but loses it from composer
- Windows app: Download Plan succeeds silently with no confirmation or destination feedback
- Codex desktop app freezes on startup: MCP Windows path in config.toml triggers TOML parsing failure
- Bug: active goal terminates after partial milestones despite explicit continuation and completion gates
- [macOS][Pro 20x $200] Chat → New voice chat is gated by exhausted Codex/Work quota while web Voice works
- [macOS/iOS Remote] Persisted mobile turns are omitted from the next Desktop model context in the same thread
- [Windows][Computer Use] codex-computer-use leaves the system wait cursor as a classic hourglass
- [macOS][Global Dictation] Late composer acknowledgement starts both composer and global dictation
- Cross-host handoff caches failed Git origin lookup and reports no matching project with Git 2.43
- Interface only partially updates when macOS Appearance is set to Auto
- ChatGPT Desktop Work Mode cannot reliably connect to Chrome despite it working 100% of the time in Codex
- Windows VS Code `view_image` intermittently rejects a local NTFS PNG after original-detail payload construction
- Add /restart to reinitialize Codex and resume the current thread
- [Windows] Computer Use capture and elevated sandbox spawn fail in app 26.803.5235.0
- Realtime Voice list_projects returns a project ID that create_thread immediately rejects
- Windows Remote connection causes codex.exe app-server private memory to grow continuously until system exhaustion; mobile remains stuck “Looking for ChatGPT desktop…”
- Regression: :workspace_roots write rules recursively expand again on 0.147.0
- Support ChatGPT Sites repositories as ephemeral Codex cloud workspaces
- Add a credential-free read-only Sites route or bound-D1 connector operation
- On resume, TUI repeatedly repaints terminal scrollback during paginated history refill
- [Windows] Project conversation disappeared after OS shutdown during a long-running task
- Codex macOS update made Codex appear to be deleted / app renamed to ChatGPT
- High GPU usage in Codex Desktop on Windows while agent is running
Resolved issues (11)
- [macOS] Opening local threads waits 5s for thread-owner-discovery timeout
- Design: thread context pins for preserving important context across compaction
- Codex sidebar: group conversation history by project before date
- Appshots block disallowed purchase/order-history pages (expected policy behavior)
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send message while response is generating; ChatGPT Web allows it
- [macOS][Chat] Cannot send message while response is generating; ChatGPT Web allows it
- Bugs with new chatgpt codex version
- Codex Desktop surfaced spam-like/gambling text in malformed tool-call property name
- Model reads image files with the same name, UI always shows the first loaded image
- CLI 0.147.0: Esc-Esc backtrack cannot find selected prompt in persisted thread
- Interface only partially updates when macOS Appearance is set to Auto