Digest / August 21, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 21, 2026
148 new issues filed ·
25 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (148)
- Add Tool Call Visibility as an Option
- [Ubuntu 26.04] Codex CLI 0.149.0 unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: missing api key
- [CLI][TUI] Session resume can fail with 'already has an active writer' after approval-mode use or session switching
- [Windows] Expand the native image viewer with drawing and region-selection tools
- Group hook review by plugin source and allow source-scoped trust
- [Windows] Desktop loses auth after first response following app-server restart
- [Bug]: App crashes on macOS after updating to 26.8xx.xxxxx
- Codex IDE extension fails to open in Cursor due to Secondary Side Bar restriction
- [CLI] pets image support inside zellij
- Allow PermissionRequest hooks to race with the terminal approval prompt
- Chrome extension can read tabs but cannot control Chrome on Windows
- Feature request: host-managed one-time human review callback for Spec Phase gates
- [Bug] Archived chats page has no delete option, only “Unarchive”
- [Windows][Desktop] thread/archive fails when rollout_path uses the \\?\ prefix and list activity reintroduces it
- Workspace terminal fails to start with "setup refresh had errors"
- Remote access from both desktop and phone will cause a fetch of conversation, lost context, and broken envirement
- Bundled PowerShell 7.6.4 (.NET 10.0.10) crashes with CET fail-fast on Windows 11 21H2 (22000.1455)
- [Remote][macOS] Switching chats repeatedly escapes underscores in unsent composer drafts
- Android Remote cannot open Windows-created Codex tasks; Android-created tasks work
- Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200.9168: Codex Desktop continuously flickers on Ryzen 7 9700X integrated Radeon graphics
- automation_update tool schema is rejected by strict OpenAI-compatible providers
- Codex Desktop list_threads needs project-scoped cursor pagination for safe automations
- [Windows][Desktop 26.818] Cached account-settings 401 drops access token without refresh while Remote Control remains functional
- [Windows] Arrow keys cannot scroll the conversation
- Codex Desktop leaves persistent zero-byte copy-suffixed rollouts and task-inventory drift on macOS
- Abnormal token consumption: ~678M tokens used while editing 3 resume versions due to repeated multi-agent polling
- Windows Remote: every new projectless chat fails trust verification with malformed path
- Windows Remote: QR pairing succeeds but Android clients cannot establish session (`nextConnectionCount=0`) on 26.818.31338
- Codex 0.149.0 drops API keys stored in `auth.json`, causing 401 Unauthorized "Missing API key"
- mcp_tool Stop hook fails open when MCP server is missing or cannot start
- Codex desktop: tasks stuck on Thinking / stream disconnects across projects
- Android Remote fails during thread/list when unbounded previews make the first response ~259 KB
- HAR-verified GPT-5.6 Thinking routing mismatch: Chrome resolves to GPT-5.5-mini while Edge stays on GPT-5.6 (Case 13542447)
- [Remote][Windows/Android] Remote Codex connection repeatedly disconnects during long-running sessions
- Windows Remote Control: Android pairing succeeds but desktop keeps zero remote connections
- Android → macOS Codex Remote stopped connecting for ~12 hours despite latest apps and online host
- Error creating chat {"value":{},"source":"owned","hooks":[],"promises":[]} message frequently
- Option to uncompact the command activity
- Every time update the Code CLI, the old packages still remained.
- Interactive TUI: PreToolUse-equivalent bash deny is not enforced (matches exec mode); apply_patch deny has a UX bypass via generic sandbox-failure retry prompt
- Symlinked .codex breaks the entire macOS sandbox in rust-v0.149.0
- macOS: slow launch — Crashpad/pending accumulates ~40k crash files; logs_2.sqlite grows unbounded
- [bug] Codex pet speech bubbles render as checkerboard blocks and clipped text
- ChatGPT for Excel attachments consistently fail with streaming error after desktop update (Windows 26.818.3698.0)
- [Windows] Desktop app installation fails with 0x80073CF6 / windows.stateExtension on build 29648
- Interactive Codex ignores disabled state for remote installed plugins
- Windows 11 desktop app 26.818.3698.0 shows persistent blank white window
- 0.149.0: Auth headers not sent — 401 Unauthorized in ChatGPT login mode (worked in 0.148.0)
- [Web][Projects] New Chat lacks general project selector while Work and Desktop Chat provide project selection
- [Windows App] Completed response disappears after restart; turn rehydrates as interrupted
- Desktop (macOS): session refresh token revoked server-side seconds after sign-in when resuming a thread on gpt-daybreak-blue-latest — repeated forced-logout loop
- The Chinese translation for Codex's reasoning intensity has an issue: the term "极高" (extremely high) appears twice.
- FUCK TIBO
- [Bug] Image viewer closes unexpectedly when dragging/scrolling large images
- [Windows] Codex Desktop exits when opening @/+ composer picker and can enter startup exit loop
- Release internal design docs
- [Feedback][macOS] /feedback shows task ID as ready, then diagnostics upload fails
- [macOS][ChatGPT Desktop] Computer Use startup reconciliation recreates a disabled stale MCP override
- Unintended Fast-Mode Billing on Codex Subagents
- A root plugin.json silently disables all of a plugin's hooks
- Chat filed UI/UX improvement
- [ChatGPT Desktop][macOS] Deleted ChatGPT conversation remains in sidebar and cannot be removed
- Codex agents: Lock to one project folder
- [macOS][Codex App] Scheduled tab can show a stale prompt after automation_update
- Slack "attachments" messages are truncated at 1,000 characters
- Worktrees Auto-delete limit setting is ignored for SSH worktrees
- [Windows Desktop] Composer/session Markdown-escapes underscores in paths as `\_`, then model misreads them as separators
- add an option to disable “Ran N commands” collapsing and always show executed commands
- Codex App: Edit Goal pane is covered by a blank overlay and becomes unusable
- Codex App: Skill and App mentions do not round-trip correctly through copy/paste
- Feature request: add a SkillInvocation hook event
- ChatGPT desktop remote access failure
- Android Remote connects to macOS host, then immediately closes every client session
- [Desktop] Model picker omits GPT-5.6 Sol although the catalog lists it and a direct run succeeds
- Windows Codex Desktop continuously downloads ~9–10 Mbit/s while idle when IPv6 is enabled
- Codex Grey background tab
- [Android Remote][Windows] QR pairing succeeds, then tasks stop loading and the client disconnects when outbound queue fills
- [Desktop] open_in_codex remains queued for the already visible target task
- [Remote][Windows/Android] Pairing succeeds and host WebSocket is Connected, but Android attach immediately closes with `Transport unavailable`
- [Android -> macOS] Existing tasks stay on gray skeleton across two Android devices while a new Android-created task works
- Problem logging into Google accounts through Codex's internal browser
- codex delete can unlink rollout, return failure, and leave a stale thread row
- [VS Code] Add inline comments and annotations to Plan mode plans
- Add archive and delete actions to the /agents dashboard
- Retracted — submitted privately to OpenAI Support
- Windows desktop: external-agent import becomes unstable and imported skills cannot be deleted
- [Windows Desktop] thread/archive returns ENOENT for an existing local rollout
- Windows Desktop: fresh ChatGPT refresh token is rejected as refresh_token_invalidated on its first isolated refresh, causing false logout after unrelated 401
- Windows sandbox blocks MSBuild WriteLinesToFile temp *~ files with MSB3491 in elevated and unelevated modes
- [Codex Desktop] Show annotation contents inline in chat history
- ChatGPT Android: usage limits and banked resets are not visible
- Android Codex Remote disconnects before thread/resume responses reach client on Windows host
- Codex CLI: add a bounded native recovery loop for failed tool workflows
- Codex IDE extension on Windows cannot execute commands: helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors
- Codex VS Code chat plugin not connecting to local in-app browser
- Model-controlled per-turn reasoning retention to reduce long-session context cost
- The model reads the same skill multiple times between turns
- Codex CLI: add pre-apply interactive diff approval for every file edit
- "This content can't be shown We take extra caution with cybersecurity requests." when codex is testing their own brand new code according to their own work plan.
- Denying "slash_tmp" breaks Codex
- [Bug] Windows Desktop + Remote Control restores an older selected subthread in multi-thread tasks
- Feature request: Open long threads at latest message and lazy-load older history
- [Bug] Android Remote became unusable: Windows host appears disconnected and long tasks do not open
- Model Terra refuses to complete tasks
- [Windows][Desktop 26.818 + app-server 0.149.0-alpha.4] Conversation renderer crashes: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'enable_message_feedback') - conversation shows 'this turn's content cannot be displayed'
- Cloud browser handoff freezes, tab switching fails, and session cannot be truly reset
- SessionStart context is duplicated when editing a message or forking a thread
- Windows + Android Remote Control enters reconnect loop after successful initialize/thread-list
- macOS app crashes after 1–2 minutes while idle in RemoteHostedPIPContentService
- Allow Appshot attachments to have user-visible identifiers/labels for multi-Appshot prompts
- iOS Remote Control pairing fails at secure setup on two different hosts: revoked iPhone cannot re-enroll, never-revoked iPad also fails (claimed=false)
- This past weeks performance has been deplorable
- Regression in 0.149.0: empty .git directory no longer defines the project root
- [Windows][26.818.2872.0] Codex Desktop crashes during tool execution; app-server restarts and resumes thread
- Archiving a task can silently remove or orphan its recurring automations
- [Windows][26.818.3698.0] Desktop App Infinite OAuth Invalidation Loop, Renderer Deadlock & Black Screen under High Subagent Concurrency
- Cross-host Handoff fails for large chats because Windows drops segmented remote-control envelopes
- TUI hangs indefinitely on Working with tui_app_server enabled, while --disable tui_app_server works normally on 0.149.0
- [macOS][Chrome extension][regression] Browser controls no longer working
- Retiring approval_policy="untrusted" without deprecation weakens the execution-approval boundary
- Codex Remote Control unstable / disconnecting across Android and iOS while Windows Desktop works normally
- ChatGPT chat model downgrade
- Codex app cannot create a new task from a devbox after create_thread tool migration
- MCP: stdio servers are re-spawned per subagent and never closed while the supervisor stays live — duplicate fleets accumulate
- ChatGPT Sites fails to scaffold — required @openai/sites@0.2.0 package returns “not found / no permission”
- Consult overlay (/q): runtime-reject writes while Full Access stays armed
- ChatGPT Desktop Voice launches as Work/Codex and loses ChatGPT memory
- Codex CLI aborts on macOS when fsevent receives a non-UTF-8 path
- CLI turn remains working but stops emitting events after tool calls
- Windows desktop keeps already-deleted ChatGPT conversations in Recents after full restart
- MCP connection is not re-established after a local server restart
- Remote ChatGPT desktop tasks ignore writable_roots for new tasks
- Steering/clarification prompts stop the active task
- Your security filter sucks, I can't work
- Android Remote fails to verify trusted Windows projects due to case-sensitive path lookup
- [Bug] Android Remote stopped connecting to Windows host before desktop update; pairing still succeeds
- app-server: silent exit 0 mid-turn immediately after a shell tool call, in read-only sandbox (macOS)
- Codex Desktop: completed child turn visible in UI but read_thread returns items: []
- Subagent routing is not fail-closed: incompatible full-history forks silently inherit another model/quota pool (0.149.0)
- Codex Broke
- [Windows][Android Remote] Individual 2–5 MB tasks hang on loading skeletons while a 1 MB task opens
- GPT 5.6 sol claimed to be 5.5 mini
- [macOS] In-app Browser unavailable because official 26.818.32112 helpers fail signature verification
- [Linux][Remote Control] Android reaches initialize then disconnects after ~306 ms on Codex CLI 0.149.0
- Desktop app: allow opening a local folder from a voice session without manual UI interaction
- Codex App: infinite sign-in loop — app never receives a chatgpt.com session cookie, so backend-api calls 401 ("Missing valid access token or actor biscuit")
- Codex Desktop: Persian RTL Markdown table columns render misaligned
- [Codex App] Agent repeatedly creates unrequested validation projects despite opt-in rules
Resolved issues (25)
- [Windows][Remote Control] Remote connection stopped working after update; re-registration and network changes do not recover it
- Completely cutoff from Codex after going through the advanced security onboarding and using the correct passkey.
- [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
- [Ubuntu 26.04] Codex CLI 0.149.0 unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: missing api key
- Windows ChatGPT starts Codex/Work Voice from a normal Chat conversation and consumes weekly Codex quota
- Option to uncompact the command activity
- Clicking the "Archive Chat" button resulted in an error, with the message stating that the conversation could not be archived.
- Codex 0.149.0 drops API keys stored in `auth.json`, causing 401 Unauthorized "Missing API key"
- Codex TUI scrollback rows can disappear after inline viewport height changes
- [Windows] Restored threads cannot be archived after restart; rollout_path changes from C:\... to \\?\C:\...
- [Windows Desktop] Composer/session Markdown-escapes underscores in paths as `\_`, then model misreads them as separators
- [Desktop] Model picker omits GPT-5.6 Sol although the catalog lists it and a direct run succeeds
- Retracted — submitted privately to OpenAI Support
- [Windows Desktop] thread/archive returns ENOENT for an existing local rollout
- Model Terra refuses to complete tasks
- [Windows][Desktop 26.818 + app-server 0.149.0-alpha.4] Conversation renderer crashes: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'enable_message_feedback') - conversation shows 'this turn's content cannot be displayed'
- /new and codex resume <session-uuid> are extremely slow after upgrading to 0.142.0
- macOS sandbox blocks os.sysconf("SC_SEM_NSEMS_MAX"), breaking Python ProcessPoolExecutor
- Codex app cannot create a new task from a devbox after create_thread tool migration
- Consult overlay (/q): runtime-reject writes while Full Access stays armed
- MCP: stdio servers are re-spawned per subagent and never closed while the supervisor stays live — duplicate fleets accumulate
- MCP connection is not re-established after a local server restart
- CLI turn remains working but stops emitting events after tool calls
- Codex App blocks use of Local / Private Plugin Marketplaces for API Key users
- Native Bedrock Codex GPT-5.6 Sol lacks explicit cache controls, producing high cache-write spend