Digest / August 25, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 25, 2026
149 new issues filed ·
19 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (149)
- I’d like a native scheduling feature in the Codex CLI, or, alternatively, in ChatGPT Desktop, to use with SSH connections.
- Unable to upload zip file
- Codex desktop reports Fixture auth as Unsupported while CLI reports not logged in
- Codex desktop reports Fixture auth as Unsupported while CLI reports not logged in
- [Feature request] Let API apps use a user's ChatGPT account context (Memory, Projects, connected apps)
- Model routing error, from 5.6sol to 5.5mini
- Windows Desktop 26.818.8289.0: live projection drops completed assistant output present in JSONL
- ChatGPT / Codex Windows desktop client consumes excessive network traffic (~31 GB in 58 hours)
- Plan output prints raw :codex-file-citation markup instead of rendering a link
- Remote SSH threads show only the initial response while completed turns remain in rollout JSONL
- Windows: render_docx.py does not automatically find the bundled poppler — PDF rasterization fails
- [Windows][Networking][WSL] Codex activity correlates with repeated Ethernet loss / route failure; WSL NIC rebuilds observed; LAN port change restores full throughput
- Wayland tiled window reports 600px viewport while allocated 508px
- Android Remote cannot start new task for trusted WSL2 UNC project
- ChatGPT stopped unexpectedly
- Reopen the chat history, only showing the first message I sent
- Let Plus Users Choose How to Consume Their Weekly Codex Quota
- [CLI] Filter out the Visualize skill when the TUI cannot render visualizations
- Successful subagent completion messages bypass the completion-context token limit
- Pro 20x weekly quota consumption increased dramatically after reset
- [Windows][0.147.0] Python SDK stalls at turn/start while bundled CLI stalls later in Responses sampling stream
- macOS account menu shifts after “Invite friends” loads, causing accidental clicks
- Desktop app corrupts DWM compositor state in Windows 11, causing system-wide stutter that survives closing the app on certain systems
- [Regression] IDE extension 26.818.61809 hits renderer_ready_timeout in VS Code Dev Containers
- [Bug][Chrome Extension] Infinite UI flickering loop when moving browser window across monitors / displays
- Codex Desktop: request an authorized local bridge for project catalog and thread activation
- Feature request: Allow ChatGPT and Codex to be installed and launched separately
- Failed to fork current session through the app server
- [macOS Desktop] app-server grows to 20-28 GB during thread hydration; queued turns time out and runtime is SIGKILLed
- [macOS] Freshly issued refresh token rejected as refresh_token_invalidated ~10s later, reproduced with a single local process (trigger: opening a thread)
- cannnot open old message
- Ghost records
- exec: -i/--image before [PROMPT] silently drops the prompt
- doctor: top-level Notes summary uses a hyphen while detail sections use an em dash for the same message
- Selected text is invisible under Dark High Contrast theme.
- Support deep links for all desktop settings sections
- Codex Desktop native Planner rejects a verified read-only parent with `BLOCKED_PARENT_NOT_READ_ONLY`
- Windows app setup fails with helper_failed / Access Denied on codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe (26.818.8289.0)
- [Windows] final_answer persists without task_complete, composer remains in Insert mode
- Codex Desktop stores raw reasoning.content but only renders summary
- Permission-profile read denials are reported active but ignored by unified exec on macOS
- Windows desktop app plugin catalog fails with “WORKSPACE scope requires an active workspace” on a personal Plus account
- Will a desktop version of Codex be open-sourced in the future?
- [macOS][Remote iOS] Desktop-created active threads are listed but fail to load due to an active-writer conflict
- [macOS][Desktop 26.818.61809] Opening code files can freeze the renderer; persisted editor tabs make the thread repeatedly unopenable
- Codex desktop: repeated spec override and unsupported completion claims caused 12h/quota loss
- [Windows] Regression: resumed threads show Standard while still using Fast and rewrite service_tier
- Windows sidebar keeps tasks archived via Android Remote on an SSH Linux host
- macOS Codex app: restored thread is idle but paginated history persists final turn as inProgress
- Codex desktop application integrates with a third-party token plan
- macOS workspace-write sandbox denies directory rename and removal inside a writable workspace
- codex cli 0.149.1 fails to connect to exa MCP, because built-in `codex_rmcp_client` failing to make a direct HTTPS connection to Exa.
- macOS: Codex CLI update leaves existing Terminal process chains unable to access Desktop (TCC)
- Windows: codex exec image generation produces no image artifact
- Codex Terra deleted source photos after misreading destination path and falsely reported successful preservation
- Resume fails with “already has an active writer” after interrupting an approval and restarting with --approve-for-me
- Expose native transparent-background controls in the subscription-backed Codex image-generation tool
- Codex Desktop: concurrent SSH thread creation races title generation and surfaces false API "no credits" error
- When integrating custom-model, it should not default to routing to got5.6luna in the background.
- [RFC] Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Interactive Instruction Distillation (/learn) and Rule Metabolism for AGENTS.md
- [Windows][26.818.5229.0] Codex Desktop silently exits during normal work; no WER/crash event; reboot temporarily fixes it
- [MacOS] Canva design previews not displaying in the Desktop app
- Bug: Desktop app does not show installed Skills or Plugins
- [Windows 26.818] MCP process-batch accumulation and incomplete cleanup still reproducible with 5 MCP servers
- Remote is unreliable — users pay the price while OpenAI still charges $120 on time
- [Windows] All Codex chats and projects appear in ChatGPT view after switching, despite documented separation
- GitHub connector: fetch_workflow_job_logs returns no log content for some valid Actions jobs
- Regression in 26.818.8289.0: native WSL arg0 mapping is required to prevent helper deletion across restart
- Codex Mac feedback upload times out and reasoning fails to display
- GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) generated incorrect Rust decoding for a MySQL/MariaDB MAX() result
- Codex Desktop file tree shows symlinked files but hides symlinked directories outside the workspace
- Remote-control agent sessions cannot be stopped from codex agents
- Realtime voice can drift from a supplied text file and invent source attribution
- feedback not working + regression in intelligence instruction following and completeness of work
- Codex desktop chat renders fenced code blocks in a proportional font
- TUI: clipboard image paste for text-only models saves the PNG, then discards its path — insert the path as text instead
- Windows Codex App: unified exec fails with `helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors`
- Feature request: Pre-turn routing hook for plugins to select model and reasoning effort
- allow_implicit_invocation: false also disables explicit $skill invocation, contradicting docs
- [Windows Desktop] Renderer hydrates only a recent subset of valid paginated thread history (autogen selfreport from codex)
- [App][Windows] Benign local refactor repeatedly ends with invalid_prompt, including in a fresh thread
- Windows desktop: project chat titles stay stale and account settings request returns 401 after clean reset
- Codex Desktop write thread cannot reliably retrieve exact output from a read-only planning thread, breaking autonomous planner→implementer loops
- GitHub PR comments trigger Codex Cloud tasks without @codex mention
- Windows Codex Desktop repeatedly shows “ChatGPT stopped unexpectedly” during active tool turns after WebSocket retries
- [Windows App] Dragged image attachments trigger WebSocket 10054 after 26.818.8289.0 update
- [macOS Codex App] Ordinary follow-up silently reverts the thread and omits 13 completed continuation turns from UI history
- Desktop connector plugins lose ChatGPT authentication with command-auth custom model provider
- After enrolling into Advanced Account Security (to keep access to Daybreak Blue), codex app is stuck in login-logout loop
- app-server: add a single-client raw JSONL Unix-socket transport
- 019ff0dc-834d-79a1-9ceb-c09399cc63cb
- Windows sandbox error when mode is "elevated"
- Manual compacting makes context larger
- Allow /feedback while a running command
- [Windows] PPTX preview should advance slides when mouse wheel reaches the page boundary
- Windows sandbox: elevated setup for one CODEX_HOME rotates a machine-wide secret and UAC-storms every other home
- codex.exe exits with code 0 mid-session; thread-store then fails "expected ordinal N, got N-1"
- [Windows][26.818.8289.0] Codex Desktop loses ChatGPT auth while CLI and server session remain active
- Codex VS Code extension returns 401 after enabling Advanced Account Security
- Codex Remote on Android: very large task history causes indefinite cold-load and temporary list disappearance
- Agent edits code before validating hypotheses and reports speculative fixes as proven
- WSL-hosted chatgpt.exe or codex-cli both have delays between prompt and starting work, or between work completion and ending of the prompt
- Codex agent repeatedly violates explicit constraints and misreports execution state during long-running tasks
- Don't show hover popups when the mouse didn't move
- Allow weekly-only Codex usage without the 5-hour limit
- Codex couldn't start because its local database appears to be damaged.
- App: .tex files show no syntax highlighting in the file viewer, although the CLI already ships a LaTeX grammar
- OpenAI Documentation Skill GET RID OF! MASSIVE TOKEN BURN!!!
- MCP 2026-07-28: conforming `input_required` result on tools/call fails with "Unexpected response type", although the client declared `elicitation.url`
- Tokens vs. Work Time
- Notifications problem
- Stop probing relays! I paid ¥1,400/month for official Pro for 3 years, costing my home and family. Now cheap tokens exist, but you call them illegal. At 0.04× sellers earn nothing. Anyone may need Codex; shut them down and we're doomed. I want cheap tokens.
- App: a per-task "Outputs" panel collecting every file the task created or modified, with inline previews
- Codex Desktop repeatedly logs me out after completing responses
- [Windows] Restored localhost Browser sidebar leaves renderers at sustained high CPU
- [Desktop] Archive local projects as a unit while preserving thread grouping
- UI does not work with clicks at all and writing stals and is very laggy, cursor jumps back and forth.
- [Windows Desktop] Active Codex chats unexpectedly disappear without a delete action
- Support Mercurial repositories as an alternative to Git
- Document (and optionally control) where UserPromptSubmit `additionalContext` lands relative to the user's prompt
- [Withdrawn]
- [macOS][Remote Control] create_thread silently downgrades Air-to-Mini child permission profile
- Apple Messages plugin
- Permission profiles cannot protect absent nested metadata paths across Seatbelt and bubblewrap
- test issue from Srcanesen
- macOS Desktop 26.818: task switching becomes multi-second again shortly after restart
- Rate limit reach after resetting, then I'm out of Codex after running a 22minute job
- [App][Voice] Add a configurable wake word to Voice settings "The Jarvis Feature"
- fix(exec): prevent -i/--image from consuming PROMPT (clap greedy variadic)
- Codex desktop: permission state (activePermissionProfile/approvalPolicy/writableRoots) silently degrades to :workspace + sandbox_approval: false over successive read-only turns in the same task
- Codex Desktop for Windows – authentication loop after opening local project
- [Windows 26.820] Codex Desktop cannot start: bundled codex.exe relocation from WindowsApps fails
- [ChatGPT Desktop][macOS][Voice] /feedback does not show a final success or failure confirmation
- codex exec resume overrides persisted cwd when -C is omitted
- [ChatGPT Desktop][macOS][Voice] Voice launched from a Project becomes Projectless and loses its origin
- [Windows][Codex Desktop 26.820.60940] Auth loop followed by intermittent Timeout and "no rollout found for thread id"
- Opened in error
- Windows desktop app repeatedly crashes in browser process, especially in Local Work mode
- [Windows] ChatGPT 26.820.60940 fails with "invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app"; Beta 26.727.40816 works
- Let Codex review draft PRs before they are ready for human review
- Feature Request: Replace the 5-hour Codex quota window with a fixed local-time daily quota
- ChatGPT Desktop Full Access silently blocks built-in Messages sends; Approve for me succeeds
- GitHub connector loses all tools after granting access to a private repository
- Saving a prompt queue list
- [macOS][ChatGPT Desktop][Cloud Projects] Web-created Chats stay out of last-active order and omit unread dots
- [Windows][WSL] All threads fail with invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app after update to 26.820.x — WSL app-server stuck at 0.150.0-alpha.8
- [macOS arm64] Browser and Chrome plugins still fail trusted RPC check on 26.820.60940
- Codex Desktop starter cards submit only one-word prompts without their displayed intent
- Linux: Ctrl+Shift+V pastes twice in Codex Desktop
Resolved issues (19)
- `/status` prints the global AGENTS.md in full while the Directory row above it collapses to `~`
- macOS app: Cmd+Z in main composer undoes prior typing instead of undoing pasted text
- Ghost records
- Windows: apply_patch.bat fails for non-ASCII user profiles because UTF-8 wrapper is parsed using the legacy code page
- Resume fails with “already has an active writer” after interrupting an approval and restarting with --approve-for-me
- ChatGPT Sites fails to scaffold — required @openai/sites@0.2.0 package returns “not found / no permission”
- [Windows] Desktop app re-downloads ~400MB from persistent.oaistatic.com on every cold launch, reproduced on 2 different app versions
- Codex background memory worker runaway — bug and quota restoration request
- codex linux app
- [Bug] Windows 0.148 composer colors ignore terminal theme after dropping OSC 10/11
- Windows sandbox error when mode is "elevated"
- Codex VS Code extension returns 401 after enabling Advanced Account Security
- Windows: Codex browser opens but agent control fails with "Trusted RPC dependency" error
- In-app browser Cloudflare Turnstile GPU crash leaves Windows Codex app unlaunchable
- UI does not work with clicks at all and writing stals and is very laggy, cursor jumps back and forth.
- [Withdrawn]
- test issue from Srcanesen
- Opened in error
- [Windows][WSL] All threads fail with invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app after update to 26.820.x — WSL app-server stuck at 0.150.0-alpha.8