Digest / August 20, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 20, 2026
162 new issues filed ·
19 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (162)
- ChatGPT desktop Chat/Work loses installed skills during authentication verification 503s
- Add Look Up to IDE extension selected-text menu
- Upgrade the managed network proxy from Rama 0.3.0-alpha.4 to 0.3.0
- macOS: Pet still falls back to the busy animation at drag start and release
- Unify Connected Health and Health Projects into a Single Health Workspace
- Prevent PR workflow pushes from targeting the tracked default branch
- Local Codex Session Browser for VS Code
- Codex receives in-app browser ambient state but browser control tools are not exposed to the agent
- Codex Desktop becomes unresponsive and consumes most system memory after repeatedly resizing the window
- Improve Markdown Preview and Document Editing Experience
- Add "Rebase" as an option for "Pull request merge method"
- Codex Desktop: automation create can hang or return blank without persistence
- Missing rollout leaves an unarchivable ghost thread in the Windows sidebar
- externalAgentConfig/detect returns empty on Windows, silently disabling Claude Code import sync (0.147.0)
- [macOS Desktop] Archive → immediate unarchive reloads stale transcript and loses newer conversation history
- OpenAI Support Request: Trusted Access Verification Loop
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- [Windows Desktop] Responses streams can hang for 7+ hours after network interruption while turns remain InProgress
- macOS: Dragging the Pet over another app brings Codex to the foreground on release
- [Windows Codex CLI] exec_command hangs on trivial PowerShell and cmd.exe commands in both pipe and PTY modes
- Codex Desktop cannot archive sessions created in UTC+8 due to local-time rollout filenames
- [Feature Request] Drag-and-drop layout editing mode in the in-app browser
- Banked Codex resets disappeared after a brief subscription lapse and immediate Pro reactivation
- fix(auth): codex exec aborts on transient Responses WebSocket 401 with valid ChatGPT credentials
- [Windows Codex App] Dart build_runner stalls mid-build but completes in user's terminal
- Codex Desktop loses ChatGPT access token and returns to sign-in after enabling Advanced Account Security
- [Feature Request] Add a resource-scoped admission gate for provider quota exhaustion
- Completed sub-agent remains shown as working after close
- Codex overnight session spiralled into weird internal monologue
- Windows app: every completed turn fails with "This turn couldn't render"
- [macOS][26.814.41407] In-app Browser runtime exits during initialization; rollback restores it
- Codex Desktop macOS: conversation title in header is unnecessarily truncated despite available space
- [Hooks] Allow PreToolUse hooks to make exec_command wait for long-running commands (waitUntilCompletion)
- Browser Use ignores public-link routing preference and opens GitHub in Codex browser
- Windows Desktop: thread/resume rewrites rollout_path to \\?\ form, then archive fails with os error 2
- Usage limit retry message shows stale past date after reset time passes
- [macOS Desktop] Composer text remains after Send / Steer instead of clearing after recent update
- When in working mode, the operating system mouse cursor will flash wildly.
- Subfolders/Groups in Projects in Codex App
- unexpected status 413 Payload Too Large: {"error":"request body too large"}, url: https://ccv2.celion.io/v1/responses
- Codex Desktop (Windows): null-pointer crash in windows-updater.node kills the app on every launch when Microsoft Store is restricted by group policy
- [Windows] ChatGPT and Codex windows can show the wrong conversation/context in multi-window use
- app-server fs/watch misses append updates to active rollout JSONL on macOS
- Runaway Auto-review usage on Linux when bwrap/user-namespace sandbox initialization fails and a Codex-proposed legacy Landlock fallback becomes incompatible
- [Windows][26.818.2441.0] Legacy local tasks still fail to archive while new tasks archive successfully
- codex macos keeps crashing and restarting many times today
- Clicking the "Archive Chat" button resulted in an error, with the message stating that the conversation could not be archived.
- Repeated crashes & restarts severely impact daily usage
- `/fast` is a toggle, this is terrible.
- Windows task archiving fails with thread-store os error 2; completed automation tasks accumulate
- [Windows][WSL][Remote] Switching agent environment breaks WSL folder browsing and leaves stale Windows setup state
- [macOS][Codex App] OAuth callback can be applied to the wrong concurrent session
- Codex Desktop unusable: "Selected model is at capacity" for all models on my account
- Incident Report: Missing Engine Model File for Filing a Complaint
- Gmail connector generates nondeterministic Date timezone offsets unrelated to sender timezone
- [macOS Intel] Unable to enable “Locked use”: managed Computer Use service fails to spawn
- model_catalog_json in profile not honoured
- Unable to prompt due to repeated "Selected model is at capacity" for days.
- Persist call-correlated MCP tool-contract provenance on completed tool calls
- Desktop app: valid ZIP attachments consistently fail while other file types upload
- Windows Desktop: archiving existing local threads fails with os error 2
- Severe reproducible memory leak in ChatGPT/Codex desktop version 26.818.21641 on macOS.
- [Codex App] Completed subagents remain running and their timers keep increasing until opened
- Codex Desktop Windows: archive fails with os error 2 when state_5.sqlite rollout_path uses \\?\ prefix
- Memory leak - Codex Windows using all of ram
- malware detected
- [macOS][Desktop 26.818.21641] Chat creation/switching fails with opaque owned/promise error and app-server grows to ~10 GB RSS
- chrome codex
- Bring ChatGPT Personalization and Preferences to Codex
- [Windows] Restored threads cannot be archived after restart; rollout_path changes from C:\... to \\?\C:\...
- README package-manager copy buttons include descriptive comments
- [Windows desktop] OAuth account transition can disconnect AppServerManager RPC and return UI to sign-in while tasks keep running
- [Remote][Android to macOS] "No project" chat fails with project trust error
- Codex Desktop repeatedly shows "Error creating chat"
- Abort test requires a sandbox-independent execution fixture
- Login-shell tests rely on non-hermetic startup assumptions
- [BUG] remote_plugin=false still downloads openai-curated-remote plugins in Codex TUI
- Read Aloud takes ~40 seconds to start in Codex Windows app
- Codex Desktop macOS: opening any session causes auth token loss and returns to Sign In after configuring Remote Connection
- Windows Desktop app repeatedly logs out after sending one message when Advanced Account Security is enabled (401 Missing valid access token or actor biscuit)
- [Windows][26.814.5517.0] Realtime Voice audio works, but user and assistant transcripts are not rendered
- False-positive "Invalid prompt" safety rejection in benign ML research conversations
- [macOS][Codex App] ~40 full-resolution photo attachments trigger endless context compaction loop
- Archiving fails on Windows when rollout_path contains the \\?\ prefix
- Codex is unable to save a sample file
- Codex desktop: idle task composer routes input into subtask mode
- Security report withdrawn pending private disclosure
- Completed subagent threads are not reclaimed, causing false "agent thread limit reached" with 1 Active / 12 Done
- [macOS] Codex Desktop loses authentication (401 / auth_token_missing) and exits during conversations, while CLI and VS Code work normally
- Windows Stable: opening a thread immediately invalidates fresh OAuth refresh token with Advanced Account Security enabled; Beta works
- Windows Desktop: setup refresh failure survives restart; new task works only outside sandbox
- Remote stops working after switching between personal and work accounts
- Codex weekly quota is being consumed far faster than expected during normal app development workflows
- Billing Issue
- [Linux/NixOS][Intel i915] ChatGPT Desktop triggers GPU hang and freezes the display on launch
- [Windows] thread/archive schedules one rollout twice when SQLite uses a verbatim path alias
- Transcribe dictation while recording to reduce post-stop delay
- Windows: stray blinking cursor at the status line / mid-transcript — frames show the cursor before moving it, in separate writes
- Regression in Codex App 26.813.12317 on Windows 10: pwsh commands fail:"Unknown Hard Error", while 26.730.61639 works
- [Windows][26.818.2441.0] Update drops UI font size 18 to default and app zoom is focus-dependent
- spawn_agent rejects gpt-5.6-luna while parent runtime and another project can use Luna
- Goal can be silently narrowed and completed while the user's requested outcome remains unfinished
- macOS Codex app loses authentication after first prompt when Advanced Security and a passkey are enabled
- Codex Desktop login loop on macOS while CLI works; auth refresh drops token after 401
- ChatGPT client crashes one minute after startup.
- [Windows] Chrome plugin cannot connect or be uninstalled in Codex App
- [Linux/Nobara/AMD] ChatGPT 26.818.21641 repeatedly SIGSEGVs in GPU, renderer, and bundled Codex processes
- Some settings are reset on every update
- Codex Desktop on Windows stuck on "Thinking"; results only appear after restarting app
- Emit a lifecycle hook when Double-Esc creates a thread fork
- [Windows Desktop 26.818] Full Access applies for one turn, but composer silently reverts with no turn-level indicator
- cannot write to configured Powershell Transcripts folder
- [macOS] CODEX_HOME symlink triggers unbounded computer-use worker leak and V8 OOM in ~90s
- [Bug] Archiving a conversation fails with "failed to archive thread: 系统找不到指定的文件。 (os error 2)" when rollout_path is stored in extended-length form
- [Bug] Archiving a conversation fails with "failed to archive thread: 系统找不到指定的文件。 (os error 2)" when rollout_path is stored in extended-length form
- Codex Fork as first class CLI command
- Error while resuming a session
- macOS Remote Control: enable/client list succeed but pairing never starts; UI shows “Unable to update remote control status”
- Codex Luna subagent fails with the default service tier
- [App] Intermittent false-positive `invalid_prompt` on benign software tasks in fresh gpt-5.6-sol threads
- Text and scrollbar jump around
- Multiple perfectly innocent codex sessions started complaining about prompts violating usage policy even halfway into a session
- Please carefully review the problem I encountered.
- Codex App [bug]: Quick Chat shortcut opens a full new chat when sidebar is hidden
- using my credit and running test v54 weekly and credits for 2000 swedish kronor with confirmation
- using up all weekly
- [ChatGPT Web / Codex App] Repeated false-positive self-harm interventions after explicit denial of suicidal intent
- I can no longer archive conversations
- [Bug] Clean Debian 13 install of CLI 0.148.0 repeatedly reports Data Analytics and Cloudflare MCP startup failures
- Completely cutoff from Codex after going through the advanced security onboarding and using the correct passkey.
- Banked Codex usage reset was consumed/disappeared while Codex was inactive
- False-positive security alert
- Burned through 6% usage in 90 minutes
- [macOS] Project worktree task initially has projectId=null and recovers only after Desktop restart
- [Windows][26.814.5517.0] In-app Browser page commands consistently stall for ~21 seconds, causing the 30-second Node REPL deadline to reset the control session
- GPT-5.6 all-turns reasoning is double-counted, causing auto-compaction with ~20% context remaining
- Feature request: local-only and zero-retention modes for sensitive connectors such as Gmail
- CatGPT Worker newest version crashes at certain points - elevated sandbox might be culprit.
- High-reasoning Responses WebSocket idle timeout is a false dead-stream (model resumed after 8.5 min of no text frames)
- Codex App window exits when opening or resuming threads after auth_token_missing / browser pane initialization
- [Bug] Global Tool-Calling Regression: Native tools drop and raw <thinking> tags leak across sessions during model switching
- [Projects][Sources] Successful source uploads report failure and create duplicates on retry
- Codex Cloud tasks are being provisioned without a Git remote or GitHub authentication.
- Validate workspace roots at task creation/resume; surface "working directory not found" instead of downstream spawn ENOENT
- [Windows Desktop] Restore UI font size 18+ and do not silently reset existing values
- Codex Desktop ephemeral thread summaries leak full MCP stacks via thread/unsubscribe
- POP UP Window doesn't respond after a question
- Codex desktop app fails to create PR while the same task succeeds in Codex Web
- MCP OAuth login retries after explicit access_denied when using discovered scopes
- Support Codex Remote control from desktop and Linux apps
- ERROR: 100% TO 5% IN 4 HOURS
- [macOS][Chrome extension] Native host reports outdated and browser control is read-only
- Repeated sign-in screen appears after completing a response or opening an existing session
- Codex TUI harness not finding skills when searching ~/.codex
- [macOS][CLI] Phantom auth error on resume; thread works after prompt
- Subagent fan-out can increase usage because each agent pays fixed context/tool/skill overhead
- [Retracted] Incorrect scheduler malfunction report
- Codex desktop shows completed subagents as active and processing indefinitely
- Windows host pairs with Android Remote, but conversations fail to load; `/wham/tasks/list` returns 503
- Desktop app (macOS): idle node_repl visualization kernels accumulate (60–70 concurrent, ~600 MB), causing severe input lag
- [Windows][Remote Control] Remote connection stopped working after update; re-registration and network changes do not recover it
- [Usage][Luna] Weekly Codex limit dropped ~40% in one day despite light usage
Resolved issues (19)
- macOS: Pet briefly falls back to the busy animation at drag start and release
- Codex Desktop macOS: pet expand button renders a black offset circular layer
- macOS: Pet compact control bar shifts horizontally when a task notification appears
- codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe not found by CLI setup after clean install due to bin junction
- ChatGPT for Windows cannot complete setup or enter limited-access mode
- Completed sub-agent remains shown as working after close
- Windows Desktop: thread/resume rewrites rollout_path to \\?\ form, then archive fails with os error 2
- Windows task archiving fails with thread-store os error 2; completed automation tasks accumulate
- Desktop app: valid ZIP attachments consistently fail while other file types upload
- [Windows] Codex 26.814.5167.0 fails to launch with "untrusted mount point" when Alibaba Cloud Drive is running
- Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 404 Not Found
- [Windows Desktop 26.810.52044] “Do anything” permission is greyed out despite danger-full-access config
- Codex is unable to save a sample file
- [macOS] Chrome Browser Use leaves localhost agent tabs after transport/turn cleanup is interrupted
- Codex TUI freezes after Zellij detach/reattach; suspending before detach avoids it
- [Bug] Archiving a conversation fails with "failed to archive thread: 系统找不到指定的文件。 (os error 2)" when rollout_path is stored in extended-length form
- Codex Cloud tasks are being provisioned without a Git remote or GitHub authentication.
- Windows exec environment drops WINDIR and crashes self-contained WPF apps during font initialization
- [Retracted] Incorrect scheduler malfunction report