Digest / August 19, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 19, 2026
152 new issues filed ·
24 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (152)
- [Windows] Archiving a local task fails when threads.rollout_path contains a \\?\ prefix
- Codex app icon does not respect macOS Tinted icon appearance
- Codex Cloud stuck on "Reconnecting... waiting for network" over VPN — Cloudflare 403/challenge on chatgpt.com/backend-api
- Error archiving a task (chat)
- no-active-thread-01a01790-9d79-71b3-b018-b1365e6a76c9
- Plugin marketplace upgrades leak staging clones under ~/.codex/.tmp (26 GB / 234 dirs over ~4 months)
- Codex Desktop: “Add to chat” does not focus the composer after attaching selected response text
- Unable to delete or archive conversations normally
- [Android] Codex Remote is missing /compact, /side, /fork, and other commands while the same sessions expose them on iOS
- Subagent persistent network-policy amendments mutate the parent exec policy
- [CLI][Linux] VS Code Remote-SSH terminal disconnect leaves completed TUI writer locks with no safe recovery
- [Desktop/Remote] Mobile shows “approval waiting” banner but no actionable approval card
- Codex Desktop: deleted 15-minute automation reappears, creates repeated threads, and consumes tokens
- Windows app stuck in startup/loading loop after unexpected shutdown
- # [Windows] Unable to archive threads when `rollout_path` contains `\\?\` prefix
- [macOS] Writing block magic-edit fails on submit with “ChatGPT couldn't update this writing block”
- [Windows] Bundled Browser service rejected because trusted code paths are not synchronized
- Codex App with gpt-5.6-sol aborts with unsupported prompt_cache_retention
- Codex sidebar background color changes when switching between different windows
- 0.148.0 sends prompt_cache_retention on gpt-5.6-sol and every turn fails
- Weekly usage window is not reset by a new paid subscription period, and this is not disclosed at checkout
- [Windows] Browser/Chrome plugin fails trusted RPC dependency path validation
- Windows Codex App: in-app Browser trusted RPC rejects a physical non-system CODEX_HOME even when realpath, ACLs, ownership, and service paths are valid
- Desktop account bootstrap is blocked when Chrome trusted RPC fails and device auth is killed at 120 seconds
- [macOS 26.6.2][ChatGPT Desktop 26.814.41957 Build 6744] Computer Use worker/thread leak crashes GUI after ~104 seconds
- ChatGPT for Excel account sign-in fails in Office WebView2 with Cloudflare Error 1010 on Windows
- codex exec --ephemeral --json: expose provider-reported model ID on turn.completed
- Windows: shared Browser runtime rejects bundled browser-service during trusted RPC validation
- Auto-review can cause runaway quota consumption when Windows sandbox bugs repeatedly escalate workspace-local operations
- [macOS][App] AirPods composer dictation stops itself while task and recording UI remain open
- Codex lied about source verification, then compounded the failure with evasive corrections
- [Windows] Scheduled automation tasks are missing from Pet activity tray in Running and Ready states
- [Windows] “Pasted text could not be restored” in Codex App 26.814.41407
- Windows regression that completely disables both the built-in Browser and Chrome control.
- ChatGPT/Codex Desktop fails on startup: `Model provider responses not found` in bundled app-server
- Non-default model is picked up whenever a new chat is initiated
- Support attachments in Codex iOS Remote
- [Bug] Windows 0.148 composer colors ignore terminal theme after dropping OSC 10/11
- [Windows desktop] 80% zoom causes flashing while typing and floods renderer with ResizeObserver errors
- Codex App repeatedly spawns ChatGPT Computer Use processes when ~/.codex is symlinked to an external drive
- Marketplace upgrade staging leak: 559 GB / 4,972 orphaned dirs in 41 days; cleanup janitor exists for curated clones but not marketplaces
- [Windows Desktop] Stale CODEX_SQLITE_HOME and CODEX_INSTALL_DIR are injected into every new task after user variables are removed
- Frequent text truncation makes this difficult to read
- [Windows][26.814] Archiving a local chat fails after a delay and the chat remains active
- Expose a privacy-minimal output-only human-input lifecycle from codex-core
- Browser plugin fails trusted-path check; Chrome native host reported out of date
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- models 5.6 are not available in Codex Desktop in Pro account
- [ChatGPT Group Chats] Per-group custom instructions are documented but not discoverable in current group UI
- [ChatGPT Group Chats] Provide a family shared-chat successor before existing groups become read-only
- [Windows 26.814] In-app Browser control fails because browser-service.mjs is rejected as outside the trusted code path
- [Bug] Sidebar project label is replaced by generated thread summary after refresh
- Unable to archive Codex conversation
- Windows: Codex browser opens but agent control fails with "Trusted RPC dependency" error
- GPT-5.6 Sol frequently fails during the Run Command stage with prompt_cache_retention is not supported on this model
- Codex Desktop: add saved prompt favorites to the composer + menu
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- 0.147.0 intermittently sends unsupported prompt_cache_retention to gpt-5.6-so
- Long-lived app-server keeps stale paginated metadata behavior after Codex upgrade
- gpt-daybreak-blue and gpt-daybreak-blue-latest suddenly unsupported with ChatGPT-authenticated Codex while gpt-5.6-sol still works
- Codex is literally unusable, i always got prompt_cache_retention is not supported on this model
- [Windows] Codex app crashes immediately on startup in chrome.dll with C0000005
- Account-authenticated CLI runs consume allowance but are invisible in Codex Desktop
- [Codex App][macOS] Failed spawn_agent retries remain as duplicate “Creating an agent” cards
- [macOS] Desktop main process holds ~243 FDs across three Chromium storage profiles and hits the default 256 limit
- Hooks: let PermissionRequest answer concurrently with the native approval prompt (first answer wins)
- [ChatGPT Desktop Referral] Five invited users completed Desktop usage, but all invitations remain pending and no referral reward was received Summary
- [Windows] Codex 26.814.5167.0 fails to launch with "untrusted mount point" when Alibaba Cloud Drive is running
- [Windows] Mouse becomes severely laggy while Codex is thinking
- Archive bug
- Windows sandbox permanently unusable after a truncated deny_read_acl_state.json write
- Windows: archiving reopened legacy tasks fails with os error 2
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- not letting me archive a specific chat
- Codex App: saving Settings → Personalization → Custom instructions silently replaces the entire `~/.codex/AGENTS.md` (existing global instructions lost)
- [Windows ARM64] Codex 26.814 fails after Code Integrity rejects AutoSuperResolution SNPE.dll
- Skill $ picker should display package/source provenance
- Codex App cannot archive a conversation
- Codex Sol model always shows "Selected model is at capacity" after upgrading to Plus
- Codex (Chatgpt) Desktop Runs via xWayland at 3.25 hz
- Blank/Black Canvas Rendering in Chat Response
- macOS: Codex power rises sharply at 120 Hz; add an app-level frame-rate cap
- [Linux/X11] ChatGPT Desktop 26.814.41957 crashes with SIGTRAP on first editor input
- Windows: Chrome extension 1.2.27259.19709 rejects native host 26.814.41407 because runtimeConfig omits trustedBrowserClientSha256s
- Codex Desktop (Windows): ChatGPT login redirects to add-phone and Codex remains unusable
- Windows: local conversation archive fails with os error 2 after resume
- Multi-agent fan-out duplicates full parent context into every subagent rollout file - 22 files x 9.4 GB = 208 GiB; codex.exe reaches 14 GB working set
- [macOS][Codex App 26.814.41407] Traditional Chinese Sucheng punctuation leaves orphaned IMKUIPanel windows
- Windows Desktop: all local thread archives fail with thread-store os error 2 although rollout paths exist
- [ChatGPT Voice] Assistant claims live access to another chat without tool evidence
- Codex desktop exhausts the Linux file-watch limit by watching .venv, cache, and Git-internal files
- Windows Codex Desktop exits after bundled executable relocation fails through a broken Junction
- Open VSX Codex for Windows releases not available since Version 26.721.30844
- Unable to archive conversations — “Failed to archive conversation”
- Reasoning content is serialized as `null` despite being marked for "skipping if" by serde
- [Windows Desktop 26.814.5167.0] launching CUDA llama-cli through exec crashes the Codex task
- app-server command exec process IDs test does not terminate process
- app-server marketplace hook refresh test times out
- [Linux remote app-server] Sustained idle CPU from Codex Security MCP resource-list retry loop
- Codex CLI on Windows hangs for minutes when executing PowerShell/shell commands
- ChatGPT: referencing an existing chat by exact title can fail, while the assistant may falsely claim it retrieved the conversation
- [Windows] Browser plugins fail trusted RPC dependency validation
- TUI: first-run trust dialog drops the ENTER sent as soon as it renders (0.148.0, 0.149.0-alpha.1; 0.147.0 accepts it)
- macOS: New Chat from Local Project creates a global chat instead of a project chat (cloud projects unaffected)
- [Windows app] Light theme composer is cyan and selected text is unreadable
- Windows ChatGPT/Codex Desktop loses ChatGPT access token after successful login and redirects to login
- [Windows] Unable to archive any local Codex task (thread/archive -32603, os error 2)
- no-active-thread-01a01a93-8fd8-7122-8dff-b609f651cfda
- Crash after Crash
- Full-history fork replays compacted inline images and closes Responses WebSocket before response.completed
- Default history in resumed codex session is non-informative
- Browser and Chrome plugins fail trusted-path validation on Windows after update
- Approval selector bug, jumps to other value
- Fork/side conversation fails when $CODEX_HOME/sessions is a symlink: rollout path 'must be in Codex home directory'
- Chat not connecting to Browsder
- Deleting a workspace plugin reserves its name for a period, blocking re-upload, with no message saying so
- [macOS] In-app browser blocks Okta FastPass local-network verification
- Codex spent >5 hours (>5× baseline), consumed excessive tokens, and fixed 0 original bugs
- [Windows Desktop 26.814.41957] Task composer and chat creation fail after combined-app update
- Windows shell commands hang with no output in Codex desktop task
- Typing lowercase "j" immediately causes ChatGPT Desktop to close
- Codex Desktop fails to exit cleanly and crashes on next launch after update
- Codex recent chats is flickerin
- Voice transcription (hold-Space) types literal spaces instead of recording on macOS (arm64, multiple terminals)
- [macOS] Chrome Browser Use leaves localhost agent tabs after transport/turn cleanup is interrupted
- Linux ChatGPT desktop app: Pasting text containing “:” with no following space truncates the rest of the line
- Add a config profile selector to Codex Desktop for <name>.config.toml files
- `codex sandbox` aborts (SIGABRT, no diagnostic) when a permission profile omits `/` as a readable root
- voice mode not working in consumer account (it is working in my work account)
- Codex Desktop (Linux): in-app Browser control unavailable to tasks despite enabled setting
- [Windows][Chrome extension] Native host is outdated and browser control remains read-only
- Auto-review/Guardian sends unsupported additional_tools input item to OpenAI-compatible providers when Responses-Lite is enabled
- If using pnpm v11 with default minimumReleaseAge, "Update now" prompt fails for new updates
- [Regression][macOS 26.5] Locked Use plugin is still rejected by SecurityAgentHelper and hangs manual Touch ID unlock
- Slash-command settings should be session-scoped by default
- 0.148.0 breaks MCP servers added via -c option via app-server mode.
- Opened in error
- [App] Benign local subagent implementation is policy-blocked after file writes, leaving partial edits
- Return direct Delete action to Codex chat/thread main menu
- Codex App: show effective provider, model, reasoning effort, and service tier for V2 subagents
- Unable to use browser plugin even after update and repair
- Codex Desktop voice unexpectedly changes identity during an active conversation
- Writing block text edit doesn't allow accepting
- Desktop activity card misattributes Codex Security tools to Linear integration
- [macOS][Remote Control] Desktop/CLI ownership collision returns HTTP 409 and prevents iOS from opening CLI chats
- [macOS] ChatGPT hangs at 100% CPU during Finder file drag
- [app][macOS] New Realtime Voice conversations do not receive text context sent after startup
- Codex Browser control stopped working and is blocking my GoHighLevel project
- Advanced Account Security disables standard MFA state, but ChatGPT GitHub plugin requires MFA — authentication-policy deadlock
- [macOS] Restoring a persisted Google sign-in tab in the in-app browser pins the renderer at 100% CPU
- Forked session is hidden from resume picker until its first new message
- [macOS][ChatGPT Desktop] ZIP attachments fail with generic “Upload failed” in ordinary Chat
Resolved issues (24)
- Codex Desktop: new Worktree chat shows “Conversation not found” during thread/resume race
- Windows Codex App: in-app Browser trusted RPC rejects a physical non-system CODEX_HOME even when realpath, ACLs, ownership, and service paths are valid
- [Windows] Archiving a local task fails when threads.rollout_path contains a \\?\ prefix
- Windows: shared Browser runtime rejects bundled browser-service during trusted RPC validation
- Severe system-wide lag after updating Codex to 26.810.6296.0 on Windows
- Frequent text truncation makes this difficult to read
- Browser plugin fails trusted-path check; Chrome native host reported out of date
- [Bug] Sidebar project label is replaced by generated thread summary after refresh
- Documented 1M context window is unavailable in Codex CLI or Desktop App
- Windows: archiving reopened legacy tasks fails with os error 2
- [Pro 20x] Weekly limit jumped 88% -> 100% with zero client activity overnight (Windows)
- [Windows][Browser] Trusted RPC service fails in D: workspace but succeeds in C: workspace
- ChatGPT Desktop (Windows) fails in WSL mode with "Codex app-server initialize handshake timed out"
- [Windows 26.814] In-app Browser control fails because browser-service.mjs is rejected as outside the trusted code path
- Long git diffs create lag in Codex App
- [Bug] Resuming an ultra-long session replays the full log, causing delays and clipped output
- Windows: Chrome extension 1.2.27259.19709 rejects native host 26.814.41407 because runtimeConfig omits trustedBrowserClientSha256s
- Codex Desktop agent invokes PowerShell Set-Clipboard without an explicit clipboard request
- 0.148.0 sends prompt_cache_retention on gpt-5.6-sol and every turn fails
- [Linux][WSL2] Desktop app rewrites /mnt project roots to Windows drive paths and marks them missing
- Opened in error
- [Windows Desktop 26.810.7004.0] Codex Immediately Crashes with error code 1 unless you delete your existing .codex folder
- TUI scrollback corruption in Windows Terminal
- Disappearing chat history (sentences or paragraphs randomly vanishing)