Digest / Week of July 20–26, 2026
Codex Week in Review — July 20–26, 2026
994 new issues filed ·
173 resolved in openai/codex.
Most discussed new issues
- Codex Diff crashes with “Oops, an error has occurred” in VS Code on macOS
- Unable to initiate or continue new or existing chats ChatGPT App. Complete service outage
- Work/Codex stream repeatedly disconnects when the selected Windows workspace is OneDrive-backed and OneDrive is degraded
- Windows Desktop: unbounded taskkill.exe/conhost.exe cleanup storm exhausts WMI
- gpt-5.6-luna is marked as MultiAgent V1, so V2 spawn_agent rejects it
- Codex Diff shows “Oops, an error has occurred” in VS Code
- [Windows][WSL] 26.721.3404 marks valid WSL repositories as non-Git and reports "Git is unavailable"
- GPT-5.6 often serializes independent Code Mode calls; explicit batching reduced weighted usage by 27–45%
- Windows Codex Desktop becomes unstartable after adding a second folder to an existing project
- Codex Desktop repeatedly re-enters the model during wait/status polling, consuming substantial credits
- Codex Desktop exits when the embedded browser GPU process crashes and unsigned SwiftShader fallback is blocked
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- Cannot create a local Work chat inside a ChatGPT Project (Windows Desktop App)
- ChatGPT for macOS gets stuck blinking after launch on macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 (Apple Silicon M5)
- Codex App 26.715.9868.0 / CLI 0.145.0: spawn_agent rejects gpt-5.6-luna with multi_agent_v2 enabled
- Codex Desktop chats disappear from sidebar after restart when the first request is supplied as a pasted-text attachment
- Codex subagents drain full week quota overnight - usage counting broken
- Codex Desktop: screenshots re-persisted in full on every compaction and inherited by subagent forks - ~/.codex/sessions reached ~165 GiB (95% base64 images)
- VS Code extension: full Review diff page crashes while inline diff works
- [Windows] Codex desktop app fails to launch, AppX package status shows "Modified, NeedsRemediation"
Day by day
- July 20, 2026 138 new · 23 resolved
- July 21, 2026 137 new · 38 resolved
- July 22, 2026 141 new · 27 resolved
- July 23, 2026 156 new · 28 resolved
- July 24, 2026 172 new · 21 resolved
- July 25, 2026 133 new · 17 resolved
- July 26, 2026 117 new · 19 resolved