Digest / August 24, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 24, 2026
144 new issues filed ·
18 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (144)
- [Feature Request] Decouple RTL text direction from ChatGPT Desktop layout direction
- Agents are not managing subagents reliably
- [Windows App][Crash] read_thread on a ChatGPT conversation reference closes the app
- [Regression][Desktop 26.818 / CLI 0.149] Resumed thread restores deleted pre-rename workspace root
- [Codex App] Move projectless chat workspaces out of Documents and make the location configurable
- Codex Computer Use Accessibility permission causes DataGrip UI to freeze on macOS
- app-server: active turn hangs indefinitely when the client disconnects during an in-flight exec (remote unix-socket transport)
- macOS: bundled Browser plugin 26.818.41509 is missing its required browser-client.mjs
- Android Remote cannot open thread while Codex is waiting for a permission approval
- [Windows] node_repl lacks CommonJS default interoperability: import("playwright") fails
- [Windows] Signing out shows “Oops, an error has occurred” after AppServer RPC disconnect
- Codex Windows Desktop - orphan realtime voice thread cannot be removed
- Codex Desktop needs a supported recovery path when a thread's persisted model provider is unavailable
- what's wrong with codex
- Suddenly seeing nearly 2x as many GPT-5.6-Luna turns as Sol while only using Sol
- [App] Add full task search and switching to the Popout Window
- [macOS][26.818.41509] Sidebar and Activity view no longer show generated task summaries
- Codex Desktop 26.818.41509: task titles remain visible but conversations render blank until Session Storage reset
- [Windows] Automatic compaction repeatedly embeds inline images, growing a long-running rollout beyond 16 GiB
- Dictation loses recorded transcription when stopped or submitted
- shell_environment_policy.set variables are not available in Hooks
- Repeated context compaction and reconnection disrupt active threads
- Invalid prompt bug
- Windows regression: explicit Git Bash `exec_command.shell` falls back to `cmd.exe`
- Critical Codex data-loss incident — compensation requested
- [macOS] Renderer CPU scales with visible window area: ~130% full-size, ~25% small, ~0% minimized
- [macOS Desktop] A single Codex task permanently enters systemError and in-app feedback also fails with “Bad Request”
- Desktop treats a refresh-token failure as full sign-out while the access token is still valid, then enters a 401 retry storm
- Chrome filechooser event does not fire after clicking "Upload from computer", while native macOS file picker opens
- [Windows Desktop][Visualize] Native C:\ visualization path renders as missing-image placeholder
- Codex App: Markdown is not live-rendered when editing a sent prompt
- [Windows Desktop 26.818.5229.0] Reopening a task can restore an older conversational checkpoint
- [macOS] Background task progress repeatedly brings Codex 26.818 to the foreground
- [Bug] Codex Desktop's built-in terminal cannot attach to the current chat and continuously returns queued
- config.toml migration generates a permissions.<name> block that fails --strict-config parsing; sandbox_workspace_write.network_access silently ignored in static config
- [Withdrawn by author]
- [Bug] Paginated thread history projection stops at a token_count record
- Windows 11: OAuth login fails with WSAEACCES 10013 when localhost port 1455 is TCP-excluded
- TUI resize-reflow truncates a single long user message in the main chat view
- [Windows][Beta 26.727.4816.0] “Finish Windows setup” fails before helper invocation; limited-access fallback also blocked
- GPT-5.6 Sol effective context repeatedly flips between 828.4K and 258.4K in the same Codex App task
- Bash PreToolUse hooks cannot observe the effective working directory of exec_command calls
- [Windows Desktop 26.818.5229.0] Repeated browser/main crashes when reopening oversized browser-heavy tasks
- Windows: granting write access to a directory on a non-system drive breaks exec in projectless tasks
- No more colors in windows cmd
- [Windows][26.818.5345.0] openTabs succeeds, but claimTab/tabs.get/tabs.new hang until browser-control reset
- Windows app stuck in Codex.
- [Chrome/Computer Use] campus.163.com is falsely blocked while campus.game.163.com works
- In the Windows 11 ChatGPT desktop client, historical projects and conversations are unavailable; the user is immediately redirected to the login page.
- Significant reasoning degradation
- [Windows] Chrome plugin clean reinstall leaves stale chrome-native-hosts-v2 entries and fails with missing codexCliPath
- [macOS][Browser Use] Session route race leaves Chrome readable but CDP input commands time out
- Scheduled task responses missing in Windows app
- Prompt selector highlights a fixed prompt instead of the current prompt
- [Bug]: app-server stdio thread/resume emits an unbounded JSONL response that breaks bounded clients
- Is the native Codex/Work Windows sandbox supported when Windows 11 is running inside VirtualBox?
- [Windows][Codex Desktop] Archived Delete all aborts when one thread is referenced by an active fork
- Context compaction repeatedly triggers in Ultra during long-running sessions
- Timeout after Timeout
- Codex CLI 0.149.0 corrupts tool-call arguments and degenerates into gibberish on gpt-5.6-sol
- [macOS][26.818] External-contact task hangs at “Verifying recipient” while personal Plus account receives workspace-settings 401
- Excessive storage usage for sessions
- [TUI] Rich Markdown mode still renders source heading and list markers
- Desktop app repeatedly signs out with "Missing valid access token or actor biscuit" / 401 Unauthorized — not fixed by reinstall
- Windows Desktop loses access token and returns to login after /accounts/{account_id}/settings 401
- Conversation interrupted
- Context size per subagent
- Critical: Codex leaked production secrets and irreversibly rotated credentials without authorization
- Windows sandbox cannot create process when cwd is under %USERPROFILE%\.config\opencode (ERROR 267)
- not implemented
- [Codex Security] Add first-class responsible-disclosure and bug-bounty submission/tracking
- [macOS][Computer History] Recorder creates Skysight segments but 10-minute summaries never start
- GitHub review integration should clearly mark findings resolved by a superseding commit
- The client and Chrome extension cannot communicate
- Feature Request: Configurable Automatic Conversation Naming Format
- Codex Desktop does not dismiss server-originated MCP elicitation after notifications/cancelled
- Realtime Voice from SSH remote project falls back to local/projectless session
- macOS Desktop 0.149 regression: named permission profile overrides on-request/auto_review with never/user
- Computer Use and Chrome control suddenly stopped working
- Desktop app (macOS): logged out after every conversation — "Missing valid access token or actor biscuit", no token refresh attempted
- Add countdown timer to cache expiry
- send_message_to_thread omits the target turn ID, preventing exact completion correlation
- [Python SDK] Turn and global reads block forever after the transport fails
- Windows desktop: Work Mode repeatedly restarts app-server during tool calls, leaves missing tool outputs, and consumes usage
- Windows app stuck in startup/loading loop after unexpected shutdown
- Release builds block `codex exec` exit ~900 ms flushing Statsig OTLP metrics after the turn completes
- Codex Desktop create_thread completes before model dispatch with no assistant output or error
- [Windows 26.818] Built-in Browser fails trusted RPC dependency validation
- [Resolved: agent API misuse] In-app Browser tab lifecycle after a turn
- Chrome control repeatedly fails with “Invalid signature” on macOS
- RegExp.prototype.exec() incorrectly detected as shell execution
- [Windows][multi-GPU] OnDeviceModelService wakes an otherwise idle RTX 5090 into P0 with an 18 MiB context
- Windows desktop auto-update breaks Chrome and Computer Use with Trusted RPC path errors
- [Linux/XFCE] ChatGPT Desktop 26.818.61809 emits protocol, feature-key, listener, and Chromium errors on startup
- [macOS][Chrome extension] Chrome Dev is not detected and native host is registered only for stable Chrome
- WSL task shells inherit Windows TEMP/TMP and ignore login profiles
- [Feature] Add a non-executing task handoff artifact for asynchronously queued Codex workflows
- Stale task resurrection across temporal boundaries can revive unauthorized write operations
- Answer is behind input window
- Codex Browser error report
- Repeated cyber-safety false positives during benign scientific-software audit, persisting after prompt rewording
- Gpt-5.6-sol doens't do what you ask, it decides to do its own thing
- [CLI] Repeated skill-load warnings fill TUI during concurrent AICM skill refresh
- # Codex cannot restore backed-up rollout sessions because SQLite metadata is missing
- Add managed ChatGPT auth and local Responses API compatibility resources
- Oauth and reauth bug
- Add a per-thread context-window profile selector
- [macOS][26.810.52044] App reaches 23.4 GiB after long idle; five equal renderer processes coincide with five pet surfaces
- Codex Desktop Recents lists CLI-created threads that cannot be archived and are invisible to the chatgpt.com/codex web UI
- Linux bubblewrap bootstrap fails for custom permission rules targeting regular or missing paths
- ChatGPT Desktop App (MacOS) forcing me to login multiple times after passkeys are installed
- Codex App should identify unreachable custom openai_base_url in connection-refused errors
- Model stuck in error loop
- Codex Desktop: active task self-archive succeeds but tool reports failure and interrupts the turn
- [Bug] Codex generated and defended an incorrect document date despite verified local time
- Remote mobile session enters Plan Mode without the user selecting it
- [macOS][26.818.41509] ChatGPT/Codex immediately steals foreground focus after switching apps
- An annotation sent with "Steer" starts as many duplicate Codex turns as there are other VS Code windows with the Codex panel open, causing multiple concurrent writes to the same rollout and workspace
- An annotation sent with "Steer" now makes the active chat go blank while its turn continues invisibly and triggers about 60 thread-resume attempts per second
- PAYMENT ISSUE
- Desktop App: paginated thread history is replaced by a single interrupted initial turn after update
- Codex CLI Weekly Limit Issue
- iSH (iOS Linux emulator): non-TTY exec_command always fails with "exited -1 in 0ms" - SIGTERM from getppid()!=parent_pid guard
- [Windows] Desktop app re-downloads ~400MB from persistent.oaistatic.com on every cold launch, reproduced on 2 different app versions
- [VS Code] 26.818.61809 regression: history and prompt composer disappear; rollback to 26.818.41705 fixes it
- Add --plugin-dir for direct local plugin development
- Windows Desktop App does not discover repository-local skills from $REPO_ROOT/.agents/skills
- Mobile project name is incorrect while in the remote view
- Automatically expose installed plugin bin/ directories on the session PATH
- Computer Use repeatedly triggers sustained CUA process load and causes severe Mac overheating
- Remote Connection re-auth requires password for Sign in with Apple accounts with no social-login fallback
- Feature: Isolate browser sessions per task or project
- [macOS] Renderer CHECK failure (EXC_BREAKPOINT) when acting on a text selection inside a message; both Cmd+C and drag-start crash (26.818.61809)
- permissions
- Feature request: let users explicitly select the Chrome profile/window Codex should control
- Linux sandbox: TypeScript 7 async API hangs under Bun in updateSnapshot
- Windows Codex CLI Computer Use cannot determine Chrome URL after Chrome Browser Use confirms active NAVER tab
- Remote has been unusable for several updates.
- [macOS Desktop] Multiple windows are unusable, blocking parallel work during long-running Codex tasks
- Codex uses nonexistent sky.app() API for Finder Computer Use task
- Arch Linux/KDE: Codex completion notifications are delayed until the app regains focus
- test
- Browser control: allow explicit credential handoff for localhost development
- Root context lacks a cumulative hygiene boundary across self-state reads and lossy tool output
Resolved issues (18)
- thread/realtime/start (WebRTC, ChatGPT auth) fails since 2026-08-22 ~15:30Z: "Field `session.model` is not allowed for this Codex realtime session"
- GPT-5.6 Pro does not work in Chat mode on any surface
- [Withdrawn by author]
- [macOS] Background task progress repeatedly brings Codex 26.818 to the foreground
- Codex Security scan cannot be loaded due to attackPath.impact schema mismatch
- [Kitty preview terminal] German ß/? key inserts every character twice
- [Windows] Cannot archive conversations when rollout paths use the \\?\ prefix
- Desktop treats a refresh-token failure as full sign-out while the access token is still valid, then enters a 401 retry storm
- Security report withdrawn pending private disclosure
- not implemented
- Bug: No option to delete chats in macOS desktop app (v26.707.91948)
- GitHub review integration should clearly mark findings resolved by a superseding commit
- Computer Use helper crashes while controlling iPhone Mirroring, then actions report inactive session
- [Resolved: agent API misuse] In-app Browser tab lifecycle after a turn
- [Windows 26.818] Built-in Browser fails trusted RPC dependency validation
- [Windows] Archiving fails with os error 2 when rollout paths use the \\?\ prefix; external path normalization is ineffective
- PathUri misclassifies percent-encoded Windows drive URIs as POSIX
- Codex Desktop main process leaks memory in Chromium PartitionAlloc / Memory Tag 253 on macOS