Digest / Week of January 12–18, 2026
Codex Week in Review — January 12–18, 2026
156 new issues filed ·
238 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Please make "/undo" back
- Codex Remote Control
- Codex CLI cannot log in on headless environments unless Device Code auth is enabled by workspace admin
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- The Codex CLI has a serious memory leak issue that causes computer crashes.
- device auth with business account, missing worspace admin option to enable
- Zellij Incompatibility
- not able to connect to codex --- keeps saying reconnecting
- Unexpected 403 forbidden error
- Can't use Codex 5.2
- Mouse Properties dialog opens unexpectedly on Windows
- The codex cli giving: 401 unauthorized
- Fix invalid input[].id values containing colons during /review
- resuming codex with <session-id> will lose some information
- Remove 2 leading spaces from cmd suggestion
- improper 429 error near the end of a 5-hour window, when I still had plenty of usage left
- "edit prev" makes session dead: 0% context left and cannot response any message nor /compact command
- vi editing mode (like claude code /vim)
- Codex CLI slow startup / severe input lag (Possibly since 0.84, possibly related to IO / FileProvider churn)
- CODEX MADE A MISTAKE, NOW WHAT? MY PROJECT IS MESSED UP.
Day by day
- January 12, 2026 21 new · 11 resolved
- January 13, 2026 13 new · 36 resolved
- January 14, 2026 21 new · 62 resolved
- January 15, 2026 47 new · 29 resolved
- January 16, 2026 27 new · 13 resolved
- January 17, 2026 11 new · 75 resolved
- January 18, 2026 16 new · 12 resolved