Digest / Week of February 16–22, 2026
Codex Week in Review — February 16–22, 2026
317 new issues filed ·
184 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Codex app 100% CPU Usage even when only one agent is running
- App UI gets extremely slow and laggy during long sessions
- Codex IDE keeps getting stuck on "Thinking"
- Codex.app GUI: MCP child processes not reaped after task completion — 1300+ zombies, 37GB memory leak
- "You've hit your usage limit." Despite 10% Rate Limit Usage Remaining
- Dynamically loading nested AGENTS.md
- chatgpt.com/cyber verified yesterday night, still being rerouted silently to 5.2
- Security concern: CodexSandboxOffline/Online assigned to entire user profile tree on Windows 11
- Being routed to 5.2 and disallowed to verify my account as a Pro User
- Make ENTER insert newline in Codex TUI input (send on Ctrl+Enter instead)
- Model metadata for `gpt-5-codex` not found. Defaulting to fallback metadata; this can degrade performance and cause issues
- False-positive “high-risk cyber activity” flag blocks gpt-5.3-codex in Codex CLI
- To use Codex here, create a Codex account and connect to github
- Tabbed interface for parallel chat sessions in Codex extension
- Approval mode "read-only" option
- Missleading warning message: "Your account was flagged for potentially high-risk cyber activity ..."
- Multi-repo support
- Codex exec/CLI "Invalid Responses API request" error with OpenRouter
- App auto scroll is buggy / broken
- Failed to apply patch consantly
Day by day
- February 16, 2026 34 new · 13 resolved
- February 17, 2026 55 new · 22 resolved
- February 18, 2026 92 new · 27 resolved
- February 19, 2026 38 new · 21 resolved
- February 20, 2026 42 new · 67 resolved
- February 21, 2026 36 new · 24 resolved
- February 22, 2026 20 new · 10 resolved