Digest / August 12, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 12, 2026
137 new issues filed ·
16 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (137)
- Request for Credit Review Due to Duplicate Codex CLI Processes
- Add a detached effective-context fork for oversized Desktop threads
- Code Mode functions.wait can report completion/termination while child processes keep running
- Unable to enable Remote Control on Mac
- macOS desktop 26.803.41515 beach-balls before thread/list with clean profile and zero sessions
- Codex Security Deep Scan fails to start on Windows: parent must provide a managed filesystem permission profile
- [RETRACTED] Withdrawn by reporter - incorrect analysis
- Codex connector may silently commit truncated/corrupted data to GitHub
- Codex Desktop repeatedly reports expired GitHub authentication while gh is authenticated
- Sub-agent thread opened using `/agent` should show the initial prompt too
- Support selecting a config profile for app-server and Desktop via environment variable
- [Windows][VS Code] Codex extension can trigger thousands of repeated `rg --files` scans after worktree creation
- [Voice Chat] Speaking pace becomes too fast during long explanations; add persistent speed controls
- [Windows][VS Code extension] bundled Codex 0.147.0-alpha.6.5 rejects gpt-5.6-luna for spawn_agent while standalone 0.147.0 succeeds
- Review live query keeps polling deleted managed worktrees until app restart
- Cannot disable Codex Security Review while keeping Code Review enabled
- Add a durable project outcome ledger for multi-month work
- Allow hiding or collapsing successful Auto-review approval items
- Codex desktop: completed replies can end hidden behind the composer instead of scrolling into view
- Support Linux Codex CLI as a ChatGPT Remote Control host
- Official paginated resume drops the cumulative token ledger when TokenCount contains a decimal rate-limit percentage
- Make the Claude Code session import limit configurable
- Spreadsheet importer returns shared-string index for an empty XLSX shared string
- Detailed transcript view in codex.
- VS Code Review Changes concatenates intermediate fileChange patches when turn.diff is missing
- Why can't Linux and Windows be used together?
- [Linux Desktop 26.803.81509] Opening Git-backed Codex threads crashes the app with SIGILL in git worker
- Hanging, and defiying instructions
- Chat responses are consistently much shallower than ChatGPT Web with the same prompt and reasoning settings
- [Linux] Voice chat hotkey never registers — no Wayland portal support, and no X grab even under XWayland
- Remote Control blocks ChatGPT Android enrollment on official unrooted GrapheneOS
- Codex App: plan is rendered as plain assistant output when a side task is active
- [Windows] /feedback upload repeatedly fails and causes severe system slowdown
- Show PRs from all repositories and worktrees touched by a CLI thread
- [Bug] Agent-status intents are routed to placeholder shell output, causing a tool-selection loop
- [VS Code] Opening the canvas preview for a generated image makes the conversation permanently blank
- Windows Chrome side panel repeatedly loses Codex app-server after Native Messaging registry entry is removed
- Feature request: let PostToolUse hooks replace tool output (updatedToolOutput)
- [macOS] Codex voice-action popover clips bottom controls; remote-browser flow leaves blank Comet tab
- [Windows][Scheduled Tasks] ACTIVE scheduled task skipped its 08:40 run
- Codex Desktop “Pinned summary” shows another task’s worktree and branch after creating tasks
- chatgpt linux deb package installer cover zshrc's old configurations
- Authenticated MCP connector local-media upload is treated as arbitrary private-data shell exfiltration
- The top left corner displays the currently renamed session name in red.
- [Hooks] interrupt_agent does not dispatch SubagentStop for interrupted child
- Daybreak Blue with Codex Security went from 80% to 0% without yielding a result
- /fork leaves parent thread with active writer, preventing resume in another terminal
- [Linux][App] Right-clicking the top draggable title-bar area blocks mouse input across the desktop on GNOME X11
- GitHub connector appears connected but writes fail when Codex Connector is installed only on another accessible account
- Auto classifier blocking daybreak blue building temporary scripts to probe the impact of changes
- Codex App: `/goal clear` creates a new active Goal with objective `clear` instead of clearing
- [CLI] Active rollout writer keeps writing to an unlinked inode after the session path is replaced
- [CLI] Make thread writer lock directory configurable and locking optional for shared CODEX_HOME
- Blocked
- Activity View hides existing thread when starting another thread in the same workspace
- Command pallete wrongly z-index aligns with plan header actions
- Desktop/thread tokens_used reflects lifetime total_token_usage, easily mistaken for context window size
- Scheduled → Create silently creates a normal thread when an SSH remote project is selected
- Linux preview: collapsed sidebar opens on hover when leaving the window and stays open (covers content)
- ChatGPT Pro (20x) accounts appear to receive Pro 5x Codex usage capacity
- Python SDK: TokenUsageBreakdown is missing the cacheWriteInputTokens field
- ChatGPT → Codex/Work handoff approval card is too easy to approve accidentally
- Responses: reasoning tokens spent but Desktop thinking empty when only encrypted_content / empty summary arrives
- macOS Turkish keyboard: @ and $ shortcuts are intercepted in Codex
- ChatGPT Desktop: local MCP tools are discovered successfully but not exposed to Chat sessions
- GitHub `yeet` skill incorrectly requires `gh` despite connector-first workflow
- [macOS][Codex Side Chat] Side-chat annotation unexpectedly persisted as a normal ChatGPT web chat
- Windows: hook commands with embedded quotes never execute (cmd /C outer-quote wrap in command_runner.rs) but hooks report Completed
- [CLI/TUI] thread/resume silently drops the newest turns on heavily compacted threads
- Codex Desktop repeatedly sends full mcpServerStatus/list, restarts MCP helpers, and causes sustained high CPU
- Codex Desktop SSH: unarchiving a managed-worktree task does not restore its archive snapshot
- [Windows][Codex Desktop] In-app browser crashes Codex when opening localhost
- Codex Renderer is consuming excessive memory
- macOS: pausing a Goal leaves the thread active/inProgress and sidebar spinner running
- Feature request: identify the agent controlling Computer Use
- Document rollout JSONL and correct session-search extraction
- Windows: adding a second root folder to a project crashes the app UI ("process is not defined")
- [macOS] “More details” Quick Chat turns white when sending a large text input
- recommended_plugins injection has no working opt-out (feature flag removed / disable-plugins is all-or-nothing)
- GPT-5.6 consistently aborts functions.exec / tools.exec_command, while GPT-5.5 works
- Windows Desktop 26.803.10989.0: apply_patch hangs indefinitely while shell I/O works
- [Desktop][macOS] 7-day usage remaining jumped from 48% to 23% after context/memory feature change
- /agent thread switching emits stale completion notifications during replay
- Use a separate config overlay for the desktop app
- Hatch Pet v2 look-direction generation progressively shrinks later poses despite fixed-slot geometry and hard source validation
- Voice dictation input is discarded when Codex asks a clarification question
- Show authenticated ChatGPT workspace name in /status
- Codex Desktop: MCP connector is permanently disabled with no re-authenticate affordance after a failed OAuth token refresh
- GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark quota available on Pro account but model missing from Codex App selector
- ChatGPT desktop conversations not syncing to web or iOS
- Allow users to configure how many conversations appear in Recents
- Windows Codex Desktop repeatedly shows main-process error "Error: write EOF" after update
- [Windows Desktop 26.803.10989.0] codex-code-mode-host 0xc0000409 crash leaves concurrent exec calls stuck until restart
- Codex Desktop shows “Conversation not found” during new-session startup with SessionStart hooks
- macOS Computer Use permission setup is too complex and should have guided onboarding
- Codex Desktop on Windows does not support multi-monitor different DPI setup
- TUI: quick-cancelled optimistic prompt remains selectable but has no persisted UserMessage
- [Windows Desktop] Local PDF file citation link repeatedly disappears from assistant messages
- stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- App-server does not dispatch Stop hook after turn/completed
- Codex CLI cannot tag / explicitly invoke configured subagents like the Codex app
- Deep Scan Windows path bug
- Add search and filtering to the Projects list in Codex Desktop
- [Regression][Remote] VS Code and iOS threads no longer sync bidirectionally after VS Code restart
- Codex desktop viewport jumps and composer overlays text while user is reading scrolled history
- Allow async Stop to start a same-session continuation (KV cache)
- Windows sandbox: restricted token cannot enumerate or execute under the user profile, so pwsh/python/gh silently "do not exist"
- [Windows Desktop] Existing local project threads show “No chats” but remain intact and resumable by thread ID
- /MCP command returns raw results in CLI
- Computer Use / node_repl: nodeRepl.write and nodeRepl.emitImage execute but MCP content[] (screenshots) not surfaced to model
- Chat status incorrectly showed an old branch (already merged) & merge conflicts message
- TUI should emit OSC 7 when its working directory changes
- MCP tool calls crash with aws-lc-rs jitter-entropy panic ("Transport closed") once they run past ~90 seconds — not specific to fan-out calls
- This task is active elsewhere. Close it there, then retry here.
- GPT-5.6 Sol normal mode appears to consume Codex quota unusually fast on $100 plan
- Dropped app-server events corrupt resumed Codex sessions
- Guardian infrastructure failures still surface as high-risk denials after retries are exhausted
- [TUI] /model in Plan mode updates Default globally and changes Medium to High
- Codex Desktop does not enforce subagent cap or delegation depth, then root-scoped controls cannot clean up the full tree
- Random compaction bug blocking session completely.
- Accessibility: desktop app does not announce response status updates to screen readers
- [Linux Desktop 0.147.0] Completed v2 subagents retain full stdio MCP runtimes
- Error when trying to create a side thread
- GitHub connector: inconsistent repository parameter name causes misleading schema error
- Codex Desktop can remain blank indefinitely when opening tasks with stale subagents
- [Linux] Desktop app fails to launch when stale Codex SingletonLock points to a dead PID
- [app] “Sort chats by” options do not reorder project groups in the sidebar
- [app] Document manual project ordering and add project-folder sort controls
- Project Workspaces with Shared Context Across Related Chats
- cybersecutiy false positive
- excessive full screenscreen shots -
- Codex iOS SSH disconnects before authentication with exe.dev RSA host certificate
- Codex Security plugin burned through 60–70% of my weekly quota on 200$ plan with no results
- Support for Background Compaction
- Automatic compaction drops unchanged additionalContext
- Computer Use screenshot capture fails on Windows 10 Boot Camp with SetIsBorderRequired E_NOINTERFACE (0x80004002)
- Expose safe project and thread ordering APIs for Codex Desktop
Resolved issues (16)
- Remote HTTP MCP servers: handshake OK but tools never exposed in desktop conversations (regression in 26.803.61601/81509)
- Codex app: Hide pull requests from archived repositories in the PR inbox
- Codex extra caution with cybersecurity requests blocked my content
- Wrong icon for Jetbrains IDEs
- Theme font settings remain stuck after switching away from themes with custom UI/code fonts
- Error when downloading the app from microsoft store or with winget
- Issue when downloading Codex Desktop in MS Store
- Windows app: in-app worktree creation still fails when workspace path normalization leaks \?\ paths
- macOS Turkish keyboard: @ and $ shortcuts are intercepted in Codex
- Document rollout JSONL and correct session-search extraction
- PageUp/PageDown in focused composer horizontally shifts and breaks VS Code chat webview layout
- [Windows Desktop] Existing local project threads show “No chats” but remain intact and resumable by thread ID
- TUI finalized assistant messages can render blank Markdown lines as two viewport rows
- [app] “Sort chats by” options do not reorder project groups in the sidebar
- cybersecutiy false positive
- [Linux Desktop 26.803.81509] Opening Git-backed Codex threads crashes the app with SIGILL in git worker