Digest / August 14, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 14, 2026
143 new issues filed ·
16 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (143)
- Linux desktop docs only advertise a mutable latest/ .deb; checksum-pinned packagers break on overwrite
- Codex won't load.
- Codex Desktop on Windows: MSVC cl.exe remains suspended under MSBuild Tracker; TrackFileAccess=false bypasses the failure
- [Remote][macOS] Image generation succeeds locally but media result is blocked by security-hook validation
- Conversation interrupted during read-only security review after content-safety block
- no-active-thread-019ffdb1-183c-7970-8787-4d18f0231268
- Long-running Desktop session becomes huge and difficult to inspect after repeated compaction; thread read output is truncated
- [macOS] Severe performance regression: 100%+ CPU, 10+ GB RAM usage, and frequent UI hangs
- Voice assistant bug
- Feedback uploaded for thread 019fe9de-d0c0-7492-9289-6bd280114c51
- VS Code extension becomes unresponsive and renders blank content after resuming a paused Goal
- Gmail send_email returns JSONDecodeError after successful delivery, causing duplicate emails on retry
- Codex Desktop: Git/Changes panel intermittently disappears in the right sidebar
- [ChatGPT desktop] Agents repeatedly invoke Computer Use against the documented-prohibited ChatGPT host target
- Codex Desktop: completed subagents remain shown as running/processing in the summary panel
- TUI re-emits entire conversation history into scrollback on Windows Server (no GPU, over RDP), causing visible "flooding"
- app-server: app/installed rebuilds the codex_apps MCP session per call, pinning ~120% of a core while idle
- Auto-review ignores bounded egress authorization from an explicitly invoked skill
- Codex Desktop OAuth token_exchange_failed immediately after automatic update to 26.810.41047 on macOS
- "Control this Mac" settings is broken
- Codex macOS: pinned project folder cannot be moved back to Projects
- Add Adaptive Reasoning Effort with Permission-Based Escalation
- History does not remember file paths that convert to [Image #1] across restarts
- Long-running CLI thread loses unresolved acceptance criteria and reports incomplete work as complete
- [Desktop] MCP tool calls fail with local models while the same MCP works with GPT-5.6
- Trusted Access user blocked during authorized local course-note curation
- Code-mode `exec` silently degrades a long-running command into a full-context model polling loop (34.6M tokens burned after the task already completed)
- Codex App shows a remote project UUID instead of the folder name in the new task composer
- Business member sees 0% usage after workspace credit top-up while tasks continue
- Codex Desktop should scope sessions by project/workspace and prefix task titles
- Malformed config.toml can trigger repeated Windows setup loop and desktop input stutter
- Allow projects to disable or redirect the Codex Desktop automation tool
- [Windows Desktop] Pro chat turn completes with no assistant message or error
- ChatGPT on the web: “Too many requests” blocks chat access and disrupts Work tasks
- Feature request: Live Voice as a first-class Codex orchestration surface
- Codex App leaves thousands of zombie processes and eventually causes spawn EAGAIN
- Windows Desktop regression: Codex uses 6+ GB RAM, ~235 MB/s disk and causes system-wide mouse lag after update
- ChatGPT Live Voice mode bug showing usage limits error
- Computer Use loses scrolling/input control across macOS apps
- Windows desktop: deleted worktree causes an unbounded one-second Git live-query retry and sustained high CPU
- [Windows desktop] Chrome native host retry loop consumes a CPU core and causes input lag
- Title: [macOS] All pinned task names are displayed as "codex" after updating the desktop app
- bad result
- Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 404 Not Found...
- Support “Add to Codex Thread” for selected code in Jupyter Notebook cells
- macOS app crashes while idle: computer-use threads accumulate, dispatch thread limit reached, then V8 OOM/SIGABRT
- [CLI] Sticky cyber-safety false positive during benign media-player development on owned LG TV
- Codex Desktop 26.810.41047 can resolve a tracked branch as refs/heads/HEAD when creating a permanent worktree
- [Windows][Desktop 26.810.4967.0] Opening or switching conversations can trigger a persistent 350-800 MiB/s read loop and system-wide stutter
- [App][Ultra][RFC] Add utility-aware admission control for proactive subagent delegation
- Windows ChatGPT desktop app unusable after changing Appearance settings
- Support glob patterns in features.network_proxy.unix_sockets
- Long running goal sessions consume usage even though token usage appears to be low
- JetBrains Codex remote compaction fails with 404 Not Found
- [Windows Desktop 26.810.41047] Local STDIO MCP process groups accumulate and consume ~7 GB RAM
- [Windows App] Request to submit deferred migration line-ending checksum fix
- Windows Desktop 26.810.4967.0: browser extension install banner repeatedly spawns `reg.exe` and burns CPU while idle
- macOS 26.803.61601: Chrome extension shown as not installed after bundled plugin uninstall; detection fails with TCC/EPERM
- Detach a session into a separate window
- In vscode codex extension, add short line in the right of chat window
- [macOS][Codex Desktop] Completed sub-agents remain under Running until opened
- Remote Control stuck on "connecting" with environmentId null on macOS
- Custom (config.toml) option disappears for never + danger-full-access
- Codex Desktop briefly drops literal task-title prefixes from the sidebar after restart
- VS Code extension leaks MCP server processes — one full set per session, never reaped (up to 490 processes / 26.5 GB observed)
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Codex Desktop: make Ctrl+Shift+Tab recent-chat switcher persistent and complete across projects
- [desktop] Uncommitted changes are silently overwritten when multiple sessions share the same worktree
- [Windows Desktop] Memory grows sharply with multiple windows and long-history threads in 26.810.41047
- [App] Composer shadow overlays conversation content while scrolling on macOS
- Windows Codex 26.810.4967.0 renderer memory spikes and causes system-wide stuttering as a chat grows
- `codex exec review` accepts but ignores `--output-schema`
- [Windows] ChatGPT/Codex desktop app causes system-wide mouse stutter when running without elevation
- Codex Windows 26.810.4967 idle main-process CPU busy loop in Chrome plugin app-server hashing
- Codex repeatedly creates or overwrites GitHub branches with orphan “Start repository” snapshot commits
- [macOS Desktop] In-app Browser control unavailable because bundled node_repl MCP client never becomes ready
- .ISPC files arent rendered as c++, unlike cuda files
- # Windows desktop app 26.810.4967.0 continuously uses high CPU after update, causing mouse and keyboard input lag
- "Conversation interrupted" when resuming codex
- [Windows][26.810.4967.0] This update makes the entire PC stutter — fully exiting Codex fixes it immediately
- After the update to Windows 11, the mouse has become noticeably sluggish.
- [app][macOS][26.803.41515] Codex desktop crashes on startup — V8 JavaScript heap out of memory (data-independent, org-wide)
- lagging system
- [Windows][App][Chrome] Same conversation enters ~22 Hz active-writer retry loop across desktop and Chrome side panel
- macOS: enabling Computer History causes periodic WindowServer ping timeouts and UI input hitching
- codex app on pc from last update is slow and werry laggy on high end pc
- Repeated Codex Desktop V8 `SIGTRAP` / `brk 0` crash — 13 occurrences in ~49.5h on build 6396
- Can no longer move chats into projects
- [macOS Desktop plus Android Remote] list threads reaches app server but never completes; UI sidebar remains healthy.
- [Windows ARM64] build-ios-apps launches and retains macOS-only XcodeBuildMCP process trees
- Codex Desktop 26.810.41047 returns 400: input[0].tools[0].description is empty with Azure Responses API
- [Cross-platform] build-ios-apps starts XcodeBuildMCP on non-macOS hosts in Desktop and VS Code (autogen selfreport from codex)
- TUI: set DECSET 2031 so an in-place terminal theme change updates the composer colours
- Clarify scheduling limits for ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks vs Codex automations
- Codex Desktop shows growing number of phantom working subagents
- Allow starting a new chat without leaving the current workspace
- Systematic false positives: archival children’s film restoration blocked as sexual content (20 of 50 films)
- [Windows 11][26.813.12317] ChatGPT/Codex causes persistent system-wide mouse lag and ~10% CPU while idle
- [Windows][Desktop][26.803.10989.0] Repeated chrome.dll invalid-pointer read during window teardown
- Adding a `/cd` command
- Codex for Open Source: ChatGPT Pro grant cannot be redeemed by existing subscribers
- [macOS] 26.810.41047: main-process spawnSync storm respawns the plugin app-server ~5×/sec, freezing the UI and system input
- VS Code Codex chat should support drag-and-drop file references from Explorer
- [WSL] Resumed sessions get a lowercased /mnt cwd from the state DB, breaking project trust and approval matching
- [macOS][Computer History] “permissions could not be loaded” for ChatGPT Pro user
- iOS dark mode renders user prompt bubbles light with dark text when accent color is Black
- Linux: add an option to use native system window decorations
- Codex Windows version 26.803.10989.0 glitch
- Subagent count shows phantom working agents and changes after restart
- Request: transparency and investigation into rapid Codex quota depletion for long-context research workflows
- Usage-limit rejections are undiagnosable: no request ID, /status contradicts the server, and resetsAt slides for uninitialized windows
- No Result or bad results
- send_message_to_thread intermittently fails to start a turn when the target thread is idle
- [macOS][Codex Desktop] Chrome rollout tracker loops at >160% CPU when session JSONL exceeds V8 max string length
- Codex Desktop: new chats fail to resume while rollout JSONL is briefly empty
- Codex App leaks Node/MCP child processes when switching tasks on Windows
- Clarify $imagegen quality controls and built-in vs CLI behavior
- Windows Desktop terminates when reopening tasks with very large tracked evidence and review state
- [macOS] Agent is not working
- [Linux][WSL2] Desktop app rewrites /mnt project roots to Windows drive paths and marks them missing
- Opening an active conversation in another VS Code window can silently transfer ownership and allow concurrent turns
- Codex App: add message bookmarks to the existing conversation minimap
- macOS ChatGPT desktop app: all message sends fail with `Request failed with status 429` while chatgpt.com works
- Computer Use fails on Windows before any app can be controlled (`EPERM` on bundled runtime path)
- New Codex release very untable and high cpu usage on mac, crashes constantly! Please revert
- Responses WebSocket stalls 300s per retry; opt-out flag removed; HTTPS fallback requires 5 failed retries
- Windows: ChatGPT.exe enters persistent CPU / ~1 GB/s process-read state until restart
- Linux app leaks ~147 `.org.chromium.Chromium.*` temporary files into `/tmp` on every launch
- it is already September 14th and your usage should have reset three days ago...
- Paginated thread bootstrap loads up to 500 items without a byte limit, so one large turn remains slow
- codex-security: _locked_parent locks every path ancestor, so scans under the Windows user profile fail with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
- OTLP metrics exporter emits only target_info while OTLP logs succeed
- Cross-provider child task is still replaced by a non-portable encrypted inter-agent message on 0.147.0
- Codex stopped making changes to the project folder
- Windows: severe mouse cursor lag while Codex desktop app is running
- ClickUp connector read calls fail after disconnect and reauthentication
- Codex Desktop Pet causes mouse cursor stuttering on Windows 11
- Windows sandbox times out waiting for runner spawn_ready on a local session (0.147.0), while danger-full-access works
- Windows Desktop: task-level Full access mode causes severe mouse and UI lag
- Mac app is completely freezing on me
- [Windows] “Open in folder” falls back to C:\ for mapped-drive/UNC project files
- Windows: system-wide mouse stutter after Codex resumes from Modern Standby
- Codex Desktop cron automation hangs on load_workspace_dependencies, while the same call succeeds in foreground tasks
Resolved issues (16)
- [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
- Regression: Shift+Enter sends prompt instead of inserting line break (macOS)
- Codex Desktop should scope sessions by project/workspace and prefix task titles
- Windows desktop: deleted worktree causes an unbounded one-second Git live-query retry and sustained high CPU
- Consistent 5-second delay when opening historical tasks after Computer Use is started
- macOS app crashes while idle: computer-use threads accumulate, dispatch thread limit reached, then V8 OOM/SIGABRT
- Codex Desktop: make Ctrl+Shift+Tab recent-chat switcher persistent and complete across projects
- Linux preview: collapsed sidebar opens on hover when leaving the window and stays open (covers content)
- [macOS] 26.810.41047: main-process spawnSync storm respawns the plugin app-server ~5×/sec, freezing the UI and system input
- Subagent count shows phantom working agents and changes after restart
- [macOS] Agent is not working
- Usage-limit rejections are undiagnosable: no request ID, /status contradicts the server, and resetsAt slides for uninitialized windows
- No way to do a clean uninstall of Codex CLI on Windows that reverts system sandbox changes
- Windows: severe mouse cursor lag while Codex desktop app is running
- Windows Desktop: task-level Full access mode causes severe mouse and UI lag
- Windows Store Codex: Chrome backend not registered and Computer Use native pipe missing