Digest / August 26, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — August 26, 2026
208 new issues filed ·
44 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (208)
- Codex 5 hour usage limit is basically half of weekly limit
- macOS App Keeps Showing Login Page After Email Address Change
- luna reserve on goals
- [Windows beta app] selecting an older conversation does not load its transcript
- Finish Windows setup
- ChatGPT Beta cannot resume paginated rollout when inherited prefix ends on a non-durable event
- Preserve Programmatic Tool Calling caller linkage in App Server and rollouts
- Android Remote shows internal-looking `g-p-...` project identifier for an existing Codex conversation
- [Bug] Windows Desktop app fails to start after update to v26.820.60940 ("Unable to locate Codex CLI" & spawn EINVAL on .cmd wrapper)
- ChatGPT Sites publishing repeatedly disconnects before approval completes
- [Redacted] Windows desktop startup issue
- Codex PR reviews can cite unresolvable commit SHAs for commit-metadata findings
- "% context left" divides by a hardcoded 12,000-token baseline, so it's wrong in both directions
- [Desktop Linux] Plugins page fails with "AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path" when a local project lives on an NTFS/ntfs3 mount
- Make Agent Profiles Portable
- `Adjust the 5‑hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus Codex to support sustained developer workflows` >
- [Windows] Codex Desktop login succeeds, then /accounts/{id}/settings 401 causes auth_token_missing and a reauthentication loop (26.820.7780.0)
- Windows: Codex fails to start after update - bundled codex.exe returns "Access is denied"
- Feedback submission failed - on Mac
- Codex Performance issue after update to latest version - on Mac
- Rapid @ file-search edits replay superseded queries
- Desktop: app-server death mid-turn leaves every thread permanently unsendable (latestTurnStatus=interrupted + markedStreaming=true, zero turn/start afterwards)
- Account logout when focus is on the chat box of a specific project
- Windows Computer Use plugin is repeatedly restored as version 26.611.62324 after clearing its cache and restarting Codex.
- ChatGPT Desktop Messages should document and surface Apple sender-identity/RCS attachment constraints
- Codex Desktop: unsaved annotation draft is discarded when switching apps with Alt+Tab
- [Windows][Codex App] Main HWND becomes unclickable because it is left Enabled=False with no active popup
- In-app browser control fails with "Trusted RPC dependency" error on Windows
- [Windows] Codex Desktop app fails to start after update with "Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary"
- [macOS Desktop] functions.exec cell never settles after nested tool completes
- [Windows] Saving a generated image via context menu throws `setProgressBar is not a function`
- Windows Desktop: conversations disappear from UI even though JSONL sessions still exist; add first-party recovery/reindex tool
- ChatGPT failed to start. Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary.
- Linux Codex Desktop IAB Chromium grows to 21.9 GiB, is killed by systemd-oomd, and exits the app
- [macOS][26.820.60940] Global UI text became noticeably thinner and blurry after update
- MCP OAuth cannot send pre-registered client_secret for Google Workspace MCP
- 5H Limit Roll should be changed to 1 DAY Limit Roll
- WSL agent mode fails when creating a new chat with AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- [macOS][26.820.60940] Streaming replies are obscured by the composer until switching conversations
- Being rate limited after applying on demand reset.
- 5.6 Terra High has become stupid and consumes all tokens on simple tasks
- [Windows][Startup blocker] 26.820 cannot relocate Application Protected codex.exe (ERROR_ENCRYPTION_FAILED)
- Linux app: Chat-mode Voice is blocked by Codex usage limit
- [Windows Desktop 26.820.60940] codex_app thread tools prompt on every call and ignore approval_mode override
- [Windows App 26.820.7780.0] Second manual message can freeze before turn/start after cross-task message injection
- Two Markdown Editor and File-Link Issues in Codex Chat
- [Windows Desktop] Stale CODEX_CLI_PATH after app update breaks paginated thread restore
- Windows: all Codex side chats fail to open while normal chats work
- [Windows][Codex Desktop 26.820.7780.0] GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra tool calls fail with "code-mode host exited during handshake", while GPT-5.5 works
- Who fired the quality control department? This combined app update is embarassing.
- [Windows Desktop] GPT-5.6 disappeared and all new chats fail with :workspace permission-profile type error
- Auto-review guardian turns fire UserPromptSubmit without matching subagent lifecycle hooks
- [Desktop][Windows] Completed subagent transcripts grow without retention; archiving does not reclaim local disk space
- Cant use app
- turn/steer can succeed without persisting input while sampling is in flight
- Codex Desktop 26.820.60940: Chrome and Edge navigation consistently times out
- Codex Desktop: delegated task callback can make the previous assistant response disappear
- Codex Micro: Pinned chats Agent Keys do not update after reordering pinned chats
- 8_26.2
- [Bug][macOS] Pet stops surfacing progress/completion after sustained use; dismissing it can hide the only completion signal until restart
- [Documents skill] DOCX list restarts can continue in Word while LibreOffice render passes
- Codex Desktop repeatedly signs out on macOS while CLI and web remain authenticated
- [Image generation] Harmless prompt repeatedly false-positive blocked as erotic content
- Windows update regression: local execution fails because codex-code-mode-host.exe is missing from .sandbox-bin
- [desktop] Markdown tables ignore UI font size and remain at 14px
- Desktop app 26.820.7780.0: resuming WSL-hosted threads fails with "invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app"
- Windows Codex Desktop authentication cannot recover after refresh_token_invalidated (0.150.x)
- Failed /btw and inline /feedback are injected into active main turn; feedback upload hits 413
- macOS/Helium: side panel rejects current native host when trust field is missing
- Broken chats keeps reappearing under Recent and/or 404 errors
- Linux X11: clipboard owner advertises text/plain targets it refuses to serve, so some apps paste nothing
- Terrible AI terminal actions overview
- no-active-thread-01a03ce3-b2a5-7da1-b215-30d53c889d27
- [Windows standalone] Installer PATH junction cannot be traversed in OpenSSH sessions (0x800701C0)
- Codex Windows App fails in WSL with "invalid transport in `mcp_servers.codex_app`"
- Codex Desktop: “Last turn” review shows the latest worktree diff instead of the selected historical turn
- Codex App for Windows times out after submitting a prompt when the enterprise requirements policy contains permissions.filesystem.deny_read.
- macOS: restore a one-click top-right "Open with" menu for the current workspace
- Scheduled Codex automation metadata calls stall while substantive run succeeds
- [Linux/DEB] App Details opens unofficial MindMate listing because ChatGPT package lacks AppStream metadata
- Bug in Powershell
- macOS Desktop: orphaned turn hides later completed turns and falsely exhausts pagination
- Standalone updater is unavailable when CODEX_HOME differs from the install home
- [Windows Desktop] Opening generated files can trigger uncaught write EPIPE in custom json_stdin handler
- [Windows][Auth] Codex CLI 0.145.0 fails OAuth token exchange and device auth while browser authentication works
- Chatgpt mac app has become unusable.
- ChatGPT desktop Codex sign-in loop after successful authentication
- [Windows][MSIX 26.820.7780.0] App cannot start after auto-update: bundled codex.exe relocation fails with ERROR_ENCRYPTION_FAILED (Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary)
- App hangs and returns to sign-in screen every ~40–60 s — excessive disk writes (2.1 GB / 12 min) throttled by macOS
- Codex fails to reconstruct the global plan after repeated corrections across dependent deliverables
- Cant load codex
- Codex Windows setup didn’t finish Setup could not complete
- [macOS Desktop 26.820.60940] code-mode tasks omit send_message_to_thread while read tools remain
- I encountered the same issue: Windows Codex Desktop fails to start with "Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary"
- Feature request: Make Codex side chats persistent first-class conversations
- Blank screen when config.toml contains duplicate personality key
- Context compaction leaves usage above 65%
- Native subagent ignores explicit model_provider override while model override works
- VS Code extension: add Desktop-level dictation, cross-thread messaging, and agent orchestration
- Codex Desktop: invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app although codex_app is not present in config.toml
- TUI ignores suppressOutput for prompt hook context
- Not refreshing after 5hr reset
- [TUI 0.149.1][JetBrains-JediTerm] Unit suffixes intermittently disappear during redraws
- [Desktop Remote SSH] inter-task tools stopped before update; 0.148 lacks codex_app MCP replacement
- Codex Windows App fails to start: bundled Codex CLI binary exists but cannot be executed
- [Codex App] Pending questions in a prior-conversation attachment are silently dropped
- Ghost Chats
- macOS: Translucent sidebar becomes opaque at window width >= 1920 px
- Codex Desktop (26.810.41047) silently switched from ChatGPT-subscription billing to a dormant 2024 API key — ~$758 unintended API charges overnight
- [Windows App 26.820.7780.0] Composer stays disabled after the first completed turn in a new task
- [Windows][26.820.7780.0] Opening an existing conversation triggers 401 → auth_token_missing → repeated sign-in
- Feature request: add a global explicit-only mode for skills
- Add Windows + WSL2 smoke tests for Codex Desktop thread start/resume regressions
- Codex stopped despite my subscription—what is this nonsense?
- Desktop handoff to a worktree stashes both checkouts, fails during apply, and hides the conflict (autogen selfreport from codex)
- [Windows] Blank client area on 26.820.7780.0; --disable-direct-composition restores rendering
- Codex Remote handoff says "Paginated chats cannot be continued on another host yet"
- Codex 5-hour usage limit is being consumed significantly faster since reintroduction
- Codex Desktop fails to create new chats in WSL mode: invalid transport in `mcp_servers.codex_app`
- Cannot log in to app when domain has been associated to organization if already logged in browser
- TypeError: tools.codex_app__send_message_to_thread is not a function
- MCP OAuth: expected issuer taken from the resource URL instead of `authorization_servers`, rejecting conformant servers
- wont work
- No project sync
- YubiKey / hardware security key login loop in Codex Desktop for Windows
- Codex fails to apply edits - file system refresh error - editor bridge needs to recover - 01a03e08-918b-7251-a358-7e8353fead32
- Codex App: full-history subagent forks can lose workspace tools after compaction
- On Sign out of account error screen appears and app unresponsive
- Codex App crashes on startup on Windows 11
- Codex Desktop + WSL: `invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app` caused by injected `enabled_tools` without transport
- Abnormal Codex usage accounting exhausted remaining weekly allowance instantly
- shell_environment_policy.filters exclusion ignored by spawned shell
- [Bug] Code Mode nested exec output truncation causes repeated context growth and extreme cached-token quota consumption
- Long-lived session silently retains stale auto_review.policy after config repair
- The Codex desktop app's execution service (`codex-code-mode-host.exe`) exits during handshake, so every `exec` tool call fails. The error is intermittent but frequent.bug
- [macOS desktop] Agent codex_app thread and automation tools still hang on 26.814.41407 build 6720
- [Windows][26.820.60940 regression] Java NIO Selector.open fails with "Unable to establish loopback connection"
- [codex-web] Code-review settings shows false global permission warning and 404 for unrelated org installation
- Fresh local agents are missing the exec_command shell tool
- 5-hour usage limit repeatedly interrupts long-running GPT-5.6 Sol agent tasks
- [Windows][Work] Reopening a thread restores an older checkpoint and hides later conversation turns
- [macOS] Browser automation profile collision gives no owner or safe reconnect path
- [Windows][Desktop] Switching to Beta after the 26.820 Stable startup regression hides all legacy local threads (`chatgpt_http`)
- Windows Desktop: `invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app` breaks every chat when runCodexInWindowsSubsystemForLinux=true
- Windows Desktop: code-mode host exited during handshake, bundled node.exe fails with 0xC0000022
- [Feature Request] Show desktop pet only while a Codex task is running
- [Windows][Desktop Stable + Beta] Resumed task follow-ups become stale or unreadable after restart
- Improvements to the information provided by the command /status
- Quota exhaustion on day 1??
- [Windows] Codex signs out whenever a new chat is started
- CLI - subagent invalid response body
- [Bug][ChatGPT Classic][macOS] Pasting an image freezes one conversation and makes it persistently unopenable
- open the old chat
- Some git related commands lead to a git.exe crash window showing up on Windows
- Windows desktop: Chrome plugin missing from Plugins page; `js_repl` is forced back to `false` on startup; sessions get EPERM when connecting to the browser pipe
- Compact large idle sessions before prompt cache expiry
- [Feature request][In-app Browser] Surface native webpage dialogs to agents
- Windows: repeated display blackouts / kernel crashes during Codex sandbox command-runner activity across multiple app versions
- Prevent Installation Confusion on Arch
- MCP OAuth DCR: client_secret_post is incorrectly sent as HTTP Basic
- Codex Desktop: resumed Goal ignores updated objective and rapidly loops no-progress continuations
- Codex repeatedly ignored explicit recovery constraints, expanded repository damage, and consumed excessive tokens
- Main turn can complete before collecting required subagent results; results surface only after the next user prompt
- Remote/mobile attach unusable with large session stores: thread/list full-scans rollouts, attach re-resumes entire thread, no pagination or device cache
- Long-running threads: unbounded memory growth, auto-resume of all open conversations, rollout corruption on mid-call close, scroll anchoring broken
- Codex Desktop ignores thread.projectId created through its own App Server and places task in Recents
- Codex Desktop: add one shortcut and command-palette action for the work mode selector
- Restricted permission profile + AGENTS.md in workspace makes session start fail with misleading "sessions corrupt" error
- Long Codex thread repeatedly reports incomplete QuantPilot scope as finished after extreme tool usage
- Codex CLI cannot use Luna Reserve after standard usage limit is exhausted
- [Linux Desktop 26.820.60940] New local tasks hang at “Starting your task” after AppServerManager RPC disconnect
- Allow users to create subagents directly from the Subagents panel
- Windows Codex Desktop GPT-5.6 fails with "code-mode host exited during handshake" while GPT-5.5 Desktop and GPT-5.6 CLI work
- GPT-5.6 Sol local tools fail in Codex Desktop on Windows: code-mode host exited during handshake
- Keymap: Can't Set Submit to SHIFT-ENTER. Conflicting Keymap
- VS Code: removing IDE Context persists, but UI provides no discoverable way to re-enable it
- Stale “Running” subagents cause high CPU usage in Codex Desktop on macOS
- on phone and terminal i can see only partial chat for some reason
- codex can't complete a request
- Completed local Codex responses disappear after restarting ChatGPT desktop app
- [Bug][macOS] Advanced Voice terminates after AudioConverter invalid-property error
- App server: add an atomic thread-level interrupt API
- Codex Desktop repeatedly resumes stale rollout after Stop → Edit → Send (thread/revert)
- Managed network proxy injects unsupported YARN_NO_PROXY and breaks Yarn Berry
- Codex App streams repetitive garbage tokens into output/composer and enters abnormal turn state after context compaction
- Codex Desktop macOS authentication fails: browser bridge cannot open OAuth URL and callback listener is not started
- Codex App agent crossed project boundary and performed unsupported external state mutations
- Project-scoped Work/Codex environments instead of app-global or session-derived mode
- Codex workflow regressions are consuming paid usage without delivering usable results
- Windows Codex desktop: Send button spins forever and prompts never submit
- app-server daemon: auto-update force-kills active turns after a 60s drain budget, and cannot be disabled
- [Windows][Codex App][Safety false positive] Codeforces 2251A optimization run blocked as cybersecurity after substantial execution
- [Windows Desktop] Hidden subagent threads remain archived=0 and accumulate in state_5.sqlite
- [Windows][26.820.7780.0] Desktop launches suspended, leaks orphan codex.exe, fails to load/send threads, then silently relaunches
- [macOS][Android Remote][VS Code] Remote cannot open VS Code-owned thread; writer remains held after Android disconnects
- JavaScript error in main process - TypeError: h.setProgressBar is not a function
- [macOS] - Using /goal with annotations will DISCARD your annotations with no reliable recovery path
- [Thread API] read_thread omits completed response after context compaction
- [Windows][Browser] claimTab outcome is lost across transport reset; exactly-once settlement/readback required
- Can't delete conversation in desktop app
- mcp-server: `model` parameter schema documents stale example ids (gpt-5.2), misleading MCP clients into pinning an old model
- Filed in error — closed
- [Windows][Pet] Pet activity opens an unmaterialized realtime voice thread and shows "thread not found"
- Data loss: subagent used Path() as cleanup sentinel and shutil.rmtree(".") deleted repository
- [macOS Desktop] functions.exec does not expose effective sandbox escalation to PreToolUse hooks
- Artificial Intelligence, or Artificial Idiot？
- Codex App: notify for pinned chats only and silence routine completion for unpinned chats
- no-active-thread-01a04065-0376-7e40-885f-355b5b2071a1
Resolved issues (44)
- Add Tool Call Visibility as an Option
- Usage limit inconsistencies
- Android Remote shows internal-looking `g-p-...` project identifier for an existing Codex conversation
- Codex App notification doesn't work when using it with remote connection
- Remote SSH connection falsely reports No `codex` found in PATH when `codex` is installed at a custom path
- [Windows][WSL][26.730.8199.0] Integrated terminal silently fails before PTY/WSL startup; bottom and side panel cannot open
- [Redacted] Windows desktop startup issue
- No more colors in windows cmd
- `Adjust the 5‑hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus Codex to support sustained developer workflows` >
- Windows: Codex fails to start after update - bundled codex.exe returns "Access is denied"
- Codex CLI stalls out for no apparent reason
- ChatGPT failed to start. Unable to locate the Codex CLI binary.
- WSL agent mode fails when creating a new chat with AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- [Windows][Startup blocker] 26.820 cannot relocate Application Protected codex.exe (ERROR_ENCRYPTION_FAILED)
- [macOS][26.810.52044] Ctrl+Shift+M opens /model submenu instead of full model/reasoning/Fast picker
- [Windows][26.818.2441.0] Legacy local tasks still fail to archive while new tasks archive successfully
- Codex Desktop Recents lists CLI-created threads that cannot be archived and are invisible to the chatgpt.com/codex web UI
- Codex CLI hangs when configured to use codex mcp-server as an MCP server
- MCP server extremely slow when analyzing project — hangs for minutes with no response
- Codex mcp-server can hang indefinitely when command approval requires elicitation but MCP client cannot answer
- gpt-5.3-codex works in codex exec but fails in codex mcp-server subagent with same profile/auth
- [Windows] read-only sandbox mode causes MCP shell_command to stall indefinitely — no function_call_output returned
- macOS: Shell execution silently fails in workspace-write and read-only sandboxes via mcp-server; danger-full-access works
- mcp-server: exec/patch approval elicitations default to Denied for MCP-compliant responses
- MCP server should respond to resource and prompt requests instead of dropping them
- Codex Desktop renderer spins at high CPU while codex MCP servers are idle
- mcp-server: notifications/cancelled halts work but tools/call is never resolved
- codex_mcp_interface.md documents app-server RPCs under mcp-server
- Support Closing Thread in MCP
- Expose native /goal lifecycle over the Codex MCP server
- codex mcp-server: transient "Auth(AuthorizationRequired)" when spawning multiple concurrent stdio server instances
- codex mcp-server: `-c` config overrides are accepted but never applied to sessions
- Codex Windows App fails in WSL with "invalid transport in `mcp_servers.codex_app`"
- Realtime Voice startup fails when the projectless root is a valid directory symlink
- Codex Mac feedback upload times out and reasoning fails to display
- Saving a prompt queue list
- Codex Desktop project sidebar loses thread history when switching between Windows and WSL path views
- Codex Desktop omits codex_app project/thread tools with a custom Responses provider
- Codex Desktop + WSL: `invalid transport in mcp_servers.codex_app` caused by injected `enabled_tools` without transport
- open the old chat
- on phone and terminal i can see only partial chat for some reason
- Codex Desktop macOS: conversation title in header is unnecessarily truncated despite available space
- Codex App has ~5s lag when opening a new durable thread in a git repo
- Filed in error — closed