Digest / August 15, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 15, 2026
122 new issues filed ·
26 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (122)
- Resolved linked-worktree Git directory is unreadable with `:root = "deny"`
- Codex Micro Send Message does not work in ChatGPT Mode
- macOS Intel: repeated WindowServer watchdog exits while Codex Desktop is visible, preceded by AppleIntelICLLPGraphicsFramebuffer VRR_ERR
- Codex Micro Reasoning doesn't work in ChatGPT Mode
- Codex 0.129.0+ rejects fresh ChatGPT token for Models and codex_apps; 0.128.0 works
- Add config.toml option for explicit additional AGENTS.md paths
- Windows CLI welcome screen shows macOS-only installation tip
- [VS Code][Windows] Codex panel becomes permanently blank under resource pressure and only recovers after restarting Extension Host
- `Esc Esc Enter` no longer works to fork from a previous prompt in the session history
- Subagents inherit Codex App task controls and can create independent user-owned threads
- Bundled openai-docs skill does not preserve the Codex surface and routes CLI questions to desktop-app guidance
- [BUG] codex exec: MCP tools from `tools/list` are not injected into the model's tool set
- [macOS] Detached app-server repeatedly fails OAuth Keychain access with CSSMERR_CSP_NO_USER_INTERACTION
- Registered custom-agent runtime metadata is unavailable in Codex CLI 0.147.0
- [Windows] Subagents leave unused stdio MCP process trees after task completion
- [Windows Desktop] Open folder generates malformed path and fails with ENOENT
- Desktop app: live per-file diff updates during agent runs are gone — changes appear only after the turn completes
- [Windows][WSL] MSIX EFS-encrypted bundled codex fails relocation with ERROR_ENCRYPTION_FAILED (0x80071770)
- [macOS] SkyComputerUseService build 26.812.1000717 segfaults at launch; unbounded respawn storm forces WindowServer watchdog reboots of the entire Mac
- [Windows][26.810.50856] Intermittent severe system-wide stutter; restarting Codex restores responsiveness
- mouse super laggy after a few uses of codex i suspect the new update just yesterday and the computer use
- macOS: timed-out Computer Use list_apps() call leaks PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep assertion for 34 hours
- [Windows][26.810.4967.0] Main process reaches 1.1-1.5 GB/s read I/O and causes system-wide lag after hours idle
- Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 404 Not Found
- MCP elicitation over remote streamable HTTP: dialog renders, user's Accept never reaches the server (works over stdio)
- Realtime Voice startup fails when the projectless root is a valid directory symlink
- ChatGPT Edge extension 1.2.30000.30 cannot create chats: path.posix.delimiter is undefined in browser bundle
- [Windows 11][26.810.4967.0] Active thread causes system-wide lag and pointer flicker with sustained GPU/DWM load
- [Windows][26.810.4967.0] System-wide mouse stutter; hidden avatar overlay and cursor polling may contribute
- [Windows][Desktop 26.810.6296.0] Opening already-running Codex makes ChatGPT.exe MAIN burn ~8.5 CPU-sec/6s and ~1GB until full restart
- [Windows] CUA node_repl workers remain after Code Mode task completion and correlate with system-wide UI stalls
- [app][linux] Documented AppArmor remediation breaks bubblewrap when another vendor's profile is already installed
- [Windows][26.810.6296.0] Electron main process busy loop causes system-wide mouse stutter; full exit fixes it
- [Codex Mobile / Android] Login freezes with multiple Google accounts due to Credential Manager TransactionTooLargeException
- riscv64gc musl build support
- [Windows App 26.810.6296.0] Idle ChatGPT.exe loop causes system-wide cursor stutter after Aug 15 update
- macOS 26.810.50856: dozens of ChatGPT Computer Use processes spawn while idle, causing near-100% CPU and severe system lag
- Support cost and budget metrics in TUI status_line
- Cannot use gpt-5.6-sol in Codex CLI after renewing Pro x20 subscription
- Severe system-wide lag after updating Codex to 26.810.6296.0 on Windows
- [Regression][macOS Desktop] Orphaned “New task” sidebar entries cannot be archived or deleted
- bug in the display of sub-agent statuses
- [macOS Desktop] Codex internal web server status page HTML leaks into chat conversation as raw text
- [Windows/MSIX] Store updates re-trigger Defender Firewall prompt and accumulate stale rules for versioned ChatGPT.exe paths
- Pro weekly quota meter accelerated ~2.4x mid-window, then returned to normal (Aug 14)
- [Windows] System-wide mouse and window-drag stutter; visible foreground Task Manager temporarily suppresses it
- I WANT A REFUND
- Codex Desktop attributes approval-wait time to tool execution and draws false performance conclusions
- “Open in new window” no longer creates a detached window for a new chat
- [App] Spawned GPT-5.6-Luna agent shows medium reasoning in UI while rollout records max
- [app/plugins] Notion package ships draft lock metadata and stale vendored skills
- [app/skills] Bundled artifact helper commands fail from the normal workspace directory
- [app/visualize] Bundled template loads Lucide from the network despite the no-network contract
- [app/computer-use] Screenshot reader assumes file URLs but packaged Sky returns data URLs
- [app/skills] Office skill metadata advertises unsupported legacy .ppt and .xls files
- [app/browser] Auth fallback can switch browser profiles without an identity confirmation gate
- [app/skills] Installed skill-installer helpers lose executable permissions
- Quality/regression issue
- High-severity bug: Gmail write action executed without required confirmation
- ChatGPT desktop app (26.810.52044) crash loop: OOM abort in "computer-use" worker + 64 dispatch threads blocked in RemoteHostedPIPContentService bootstrap
- [Windows] Severe mouse stuttering after launching Codex Desktop until pet/avatar overlay is opened and closed
- Expose Codex task lifecycle events to other VS Code extensions
- Sites: add an owner-authorized SQL import path for managed D1 bindings
- [Outlook Email Connector] Free-text search_messages fails for personal Microsoft accounts (MSA)
- [Windows] System-wide stutter while Codex is idle; fully exiting app immediately restores OS responsiveness
- [Windows Desktop] Reopening chats eagerly restores every persisted in-app-browser tab, adding ~3.2 GB RAM
- Agent 'openwork.md' was updated has pretty much killed eveything (15/08/26)
- [Windows] Image tool retains stale generations and amplifies one workflow into multi-GB local state
- [Windows Codex app] Local stdio MCP servers are repeatedly spawned and not reaped within a single task
- [Withdrawn]
- 01a004cf-c04b-7e71-82cd-5f2b5ede18eb
- [Windows] NUL-corrupted state wipes projects and backup
- [Windows] Codex desktop updater repeatedly fails with 0x80190194
- Feature request: show Codex session status in VS Code Sessions sidebar
- [Bug] Computer Use spawn storm exhausts launchservicesd and triggers WindowServer watchdog kernel panic on macOS 26.5
- migrate-rollouts makes session_index-only thread names disappear
- migrate-rollouts leaves persisted subagent threads with empty projected history
- Conversation history temporarily blocked by “Too many requests” during normal ChatGPT use
- Chrome extension: add an Insert button for focused page editors
- [Windows] Codex exhausts commit memory, freezes the OS, and repeatedly crashes with 0xc0000409
- [Windows] Desktop app can remain headless for a prolonged period during startup before recovering
- [Windows][Remote Control] WebSocket times out with os error 10060 behind system proxy/TUN, while explicit proxy curl reaches endpoint
- [macOS] ChatGPT 26.810.52044 respawns SkyComputerUseService and crashes despite Computer Use disabled
- [bug] Upgrade Marketplaces trigger timeout after 30s would cause massive staging cache content in ".tmp" folder
- ChatGPT 26.810.52044 repeatedly launches SkyComputerUseService until macOS lags and the app OOM-crashes
- ChatGPT app crashes on macOS
- Codex Desktop flashes a console window when polling GitHub PRs via gh on Windows
- [Windows] plugin-scoped Context7 MCP disable override is silently ignored
- [Desktop 26.721.11231.0] successful edit/retry flow calls deprecated thread/rollback
- Codex degrades system-wide input latency on Windows 11 (measured ~50x increase in input-delivery stalls)
- (withdrawn)
- `codex exec` option to skip the inner sandbox for already-isolated runtimes (external-sandbox / BYO-seccomp)
- Codex Desktop 26.810.7004.0 shows subagent child threads as top-level sidebar conversations after update
- Switching Codex from WSL to Windows-native breaks existing chats, rewrites /mnt/d paths as C:\mnt\d, and loses project associations
- Chat mode automatically switches to Work mode and consumes Work tokens
- macOS Tahoe: residual native-tls (Secure Transport) connections stall minutes at startup and on quit — coretls TLS-metric ASL logging blocks when diagnosticd is wedged
- Windows desktop retains inactive task runtimes and Browser renderers, causing persistent main-process CPU
- Why there is just week usses limit in my account where is 5-hrs limit
- thread/resume is effectively quadratic on large active threads, blocking Remote steering
- changed suddenly my codex usage weekly reset period 18th Aug to 21st Aug
- [Windows app] Realtime Voice rewrites Full access to Custom and mutates config.toml
- App Server schema/runtime reject documented restricted read access on turn/start
- Resume opens a long thread at its first turn: 0.146.1 desynced thread_history projection cursors, and later versions never repair them
- [Windows][VS Code extension] System-wide UI stutter accumulates across sessions and clears only after sign-out
- ChatGPT-bundled Codex 0.148.0-alpha.9 fails a Streamable HTTP MCP tool call that passes in 0.147.0
- The app isn't working properly. Messages are being sent, but there is no response in the chat. I've already tried restarting, but it didn't help.
- [Windows][26.810.7004.0] Activity View no longer shows project name and colored icon
- UI Bug: OpenAI Developers plugin — broken app icon and truncated "OpenAI Platform" label
- [Windows 10][26.810.7004.0] Startup crashes in chrome.dll 151.0.7922.137 at stable offset 0x507535B
- [macOS][Built-in Browser] role, DOM, and coordinate clicks do not activate shadow-DOM native button
- [Windows] Invisible avatarOverlay causes system-wide mouse cursor stutter on AMD 780M
- Permission profile rejects the documented TOML table syntax for :workspace_roots
- request failed with status 429
- [Windows App] Stale/orphaned subagents cause runaway session growth, thread errors, and archive failure
- High memory and CPU usage causing Codex/ChatGPT to become unresponsive after update
- Desktop app syncs only 10 of 23 ChatGPT project sources into Codex mirror
- ChatGPT Project files fail to sync with the macOS desktop app after update
- macOS Desktop app returns HTTP 429 for every Chat message while Web and iOS work normally
- GitHub integration: read-only branch-protection and ruleset evidence unavailable for independent review
- [Windows][Sites] Built-in browser keeps local Site preview blocked and site permissions never load
- [macOS] Computer Use leaks ~190 workers blocked in AESendMessage → V8 OOM abort ~90s after every launch (26.810.x)
- macOS arm64 Codex executable in npm SDK artifacts fails code-signature verification
Resolved issues (26)
- `Esc Esc Enter` no longer works to fork from a previous prompt in the session history
- [Windows desktop] Chrome native host retry loop consumes a CPU core and causes input lag
- Codex Windows 26.810.4967 idle main-process CPU busy loop in Chrome plugin app-server hashing
- [Windows][26.810.4967.0] This update makes the entire PC stutter — fully exiting Codex fixes it immediately
- Codex desktop app does not consistently repopulate project thread tree after restart until threads are manually navigated
- Codex crashes when credits are exhausted
- Cannot use gpt-5.6-sol in Codex CLI after renewing Pro x20 subscription
- [Remote][macOS] Image generation succeeds locally but media result is blocked by security-hook validation
- ChatGPT desktop app (26.810.52044) crash loop: OOM abort in "computer-use" worker + 64 dispatch threads blocked in RemoteHostedPIPContentService bootstrap
- [Withdrawn]
- codex limit resets auto-consumed
- Windows: ChatGPT.exe enters persistent CPU / ~1 GB/s process-read state until restart
- [Windows] System-wide mouse and window-drag stutter; visible foreground Task Manager temporarily suppresses it
- codex 0.144.0 homebrew cask is missing `codex-code-mode-host` every command is failing with "failed to spawn code-mode host"
- Windows Desktop: Chrome plugin unavailable in Norway/EU even though extension is connected
- Main-process CPU burn ramps to ~80% of a core while idle, degrading UI responsiveness
- Windows app hangs ("not responding") after launch — main process blocks forever in HID device enumeration (HID.node → hid.dll) when one HID device doesn't respond
- Codex app 100% CPU Usage even when only one agent is running
- timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Waiting for desktop despite Codex App being authorized
- (withdrawn)
- Chat mode automatically switches to Work mode and consumes Work tokens
- Windows desktop retains inactive task runtimes and Browser renderers, causing persistent main-process CPU
- [Windows 11][26.810.4967.0] Active thread causes system-wide lag and pointer flicker with sustained GPU/DWM load
- Codex Desktop Windows: Chrome plugin connects but navigation blocked because thread networkAccess persists as false
- MCP elicitation over remote streamable HTTP: dialog renders, user's Accept never reaches the server (works over stdio)