Digest / August 23, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 23, 2026
104 new issues filed ·
26 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (104)
- Windows codex exec reaches restricted-token sandbox despite explicit windows.sandbox="elevated" selector
- False Positive Cybersecurity Block
- Goal mode: agent cannot reconfigure or resume a paused goal after explicit user instruction
- Windows ChatGPT/Codex process consumes 50+ GB and crashes
- Feature request: expose a hook for request_user_input
- remote control not working
- [macOS] Login Keychain replaced and Touch ID enrollments lost after restart with Locked Use plugin registered
- The use of `/goal` to perform loops is broken
- Codex Desktop reports success when ChatGPT follow-up is silently dropped
- Codex CLI conversation interrupted after approved command during recovery recon
- Security safeguards are overbearing
- Browser tool auto-attaches a screenshot to nearly every Code Mode result, permanently inflating history and app-server memory
- Let users describe a custom pet directly in Codex App pet settings
- [macOS Desktop] Reboot can switch app-server runtime and wedge paginated history at a duplicate ordinal
- Accidental test issue — please ignore
- [Windows] Primary runtime updater re-downloads 501.8 MB hourly after non-retryable EPERM activation failure
- Existing session fails to load, and tasks in both new and existing sessions eventually time out
- Open Source docs point to the deprecated skills repo and overstate codex-universal parity
- [Windows ARM64] Codex Desktop cannot install Primary Runtime because runtime manifest has no windows-arm64 target
- [plugins] generate-responses.py declares Python >=3.10 but requires Python 3.12 f-string syntax
- [Codex App] Continue an existing ChatGPT conversation in Codex
- [CLI/TUI] Add an option to disable compact "Ran N commands" grouping
- [Windows Desktop] code-mode sandbox omits implicit workspace root from ACL setup
- [docs] codex-universal README runtime list has drifted from the Dockerfile
- [macOS Desktop] Active Goal loses persisted row, becomes unmanageable, and rewrites local rollout path to /root
- [macOS][Desktop 26.818] Logout deterministically trips error boundary after AppServerManager teardown
- Add a TUI config option to disable compact multi-command activity and restore per-command output previews
- [Docs][Desktop] Document side-conversation identity, lifecycle, inheritance, and limitations
- [ChatGPT Android][Projects] Deleted Project link error persists in detached conversations
- [Windows] Remote Control cannot be enabled and feedback upload also fails
- Codex Desktop: expose task summaries and show them on sidebar hover
- Codex-CLI does not support Shift+Enter in WezTerm
- Chrome extension reads outer Haravan page but cannot access #app-embed-iframe
- Please allow changing the default Codex workspace directory on macOS
- Voice Chat speaks Chinese responses too fast on macOS app
- OTel response.completed reports total token usage as tool_token_count
- [CLI] MultiAgentV2 decrypt failure is persisted and permanently poisons a thread; no safe recovery
- [26.818] Chat input field hidden on startup, requires panel toggle to appear
- Docs: clarify Multi-Agent V2 concurrency key, precedence, and root-inclusive counting
- Coordinator treats an unreported internal decision as user consent and terminates in-progress analysis
- Codex automatic context-compaction failure
- [Codex App][macOS] ChatGPT pub/sub gets Cloudflare challenge during @Figma task, reconnects, and loses artifact delivery
- Windows: local command runner fails before process creation with “helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors”
- Closing a Codex terminal chat leaves the terminal at ‘Ctrl+D / Enter to restart’; regression, previously fixed.
- [Windows][VS Code] Windows sandbox setup repeatedly fails after helper completion; setup_marker.json ACL workaround
- MCP status panel shows "Auth unsupported" when an OAuth refresh fails and re-login is needed
- [macOS][Chat] Server-deleted conversations repopulate in Recents and cannot be removed
- Codex App: add a setting to hide or collapse inline diff previews in chat
- ChatGPT desktop repeatedly loses bundled Codex app-server after workspace auth 401; in-app feedback also fails
- Thread title generation burn tokens unnecessarily by inheriting full Codex agent context and tools
- Desktop skill picker ignores icon_small/icon_large and always renders the generic cube
- [Removed by author]
- Locked Use authorization plugin leaves the login keychain permanently locked for the rest of the session
- Windows: Chrome native host out of date; plugin uninstall and feedback upload fail
- Codex Python SDK 0.147.0: Sandbox.read_only permits persistent filesystem writes via managed file-edit path
- Permission-scoped Codex–ChatGPT messaging bridge with live transaction view
- Windows: app-server killed with STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT (0xC000013A) mid command execution; regressed in 26.818.5229 after being fixed post-26.810
- App tool schemas omit list_threads/read_thread maxima, causing deterministic retries
- [Windows] image_gen hangs indefinitely when any reference image is supplied
- No "sources" tab on MacOS version of ChatGPT
- [macOS][Computer Use] Secure Event Input remains active after screen unlock and app quit until logout
- [Windows 26.818.41509] conversationDetailMode=STEPS_PROSE is overwritten to STEPS_COMMANDS on startup
- [Windows] Image annotation cannot be sent in Codex Chat window, while Codex window works
- [TUI] Update request-count test for response records introduced by #39372
- [Windows] Realtime voice floating overlay controls do not trigger actions
- Clarify test expectations for latest-alpha-cli releases
- [macOS] ChatGPT Desktop repeatedly returns to “Continue to sign in” when OAuth login is completed in Safari, but works immediately with Chrome
- Login session repeatedly expires
- Windows: in-app browser control tab diverges from visible pane; visibility false and markDeliverable hangs
- Windows: custom permission profile plus non-empty AGENTS.md prevents task creation with os error 206
- [Windows] Pasting files from Explorer freezes Codex for 5-7 seconds; drag-and-drop is instant
- Hook trust is not persisted across new interactive Codex sessions on Windows
- Built-in `imagegen` skill is available, but the `image_gen` tool is not exposed in Codex App
- [Windows Desktop 26.818.5345.0] Image Base64 bypasses read_thread output limits and repeatedly stalls recovery tasks
- Failed to start /side conversation after resuming a stopped session
- Linux desktop: concurrent full-session searches saturate CPU
- Feature: Add fullscreen mode to Codex
- Option–Space window stuck on “Waiting for worktree setup…”
- [macOS][26.818.41509] Chrome control fails trusted RPC path validation under managed permissions
- [Windows] Desktop startup MoAppHang from unbounded duplicated thread metadata after automation creates large first-user prompts
- web_search = "live" silently omits web.run for custom OpenAI-auth providers
- [Backend/model catalog] GPT-5.6 Sol is originator-gated: coding clients get 272K while the same account gets 872K
- Weekly-limit percentage does not correspond to comparable token allocation across two Codex accounts
- Alt+numeric keypad character input stops working in Codex TUI
- [macOS App] IAB is never rediscovered after a transient backend disconnect
- Side chats disappear and cannot be reopened from history or mobile
- [CLI 0.149.0] Make successful-command grouping optional or expandable
- Windows-to-mobile chat synchronization is unacceptable and makes the desktop app unusable
- [macOS 26.818.41705] Thread resume signs out desktop — rotated refresh token never persisted to auth.json, fresh login invalidated in 76s
- Expose pending queued-input state to the active agent
- [macOS Desktop] Initial StepContext rebuilds world state before first sampling and can wedge turns
- [App] Show source-task relationships in the pinned summary alongside "Created tasks"
- Feature request: Quick switch for Codex Desktop sandbox permission
- followup_task resets a full-access subagent to read-only/on-request
- codex --profile silently falls back when profile file is missing
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- `/status` prints the global AGENTS.md in full while the Directory row above it collapses to `~`
- Desktop app crashes with "AppServerManager RPC is not connected" on every logout
Resolved issues (26)
- Windows: stray blinking cursor at the status line / mid-transcript — frames show the cursor before moving it, in separate writes
- Accidental test issue — please ignore
- Codex built-in browser plugin initialization fails: Trusted RPC dependency is not within a trusted code path
- Codex (gpt-5.5, Plus plan) — rate-limit cost per token jumped ~10-20x since June 16, draining the 5h budget in 2-3 prompts
- GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering at 516/1034/1552 may be leading to degraded performance on complex tasks
- Burning tokens very fast
- Codex Web: Unable to load the service index for source
- Export-Clixml: Access to the path is deined
- Steer conversation and compacting issue
- The codex cli giving: 401 unauthorized
- ZodError- code 400
- [CLI/TUI] Add an option to disable compact "Ran N commands" grouping
- Add a TUI config option to disable compact multi-command activity and restore per-command output previews
- Codex automatic context-compaction failure
- Windows: local command runner fails before process creation with “helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors”
- Codex in VSCode never loads
- Codex App: "Create permanent worktree" always fails with `fatal: invalid reference: refs/heads/HEAD` when the project's checked-out branch has an upstream
- [Removed by author]
- [CLI 0.149.0] Make successful-command grouping optional or expandable
- Could not archive conversation
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option
- Chrome/Brave extension: add per-tab vs all-tabs side panel visibility option