Open in: Zed is very buggy and unreliable.
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 7, 2026 by apotenza92 Closed Feb 14, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
60206.1448 (565)
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What issue are you seeing?
Zed doesn't open when clicked using the top toolbar button or via individual file pills.
The only functionality that works is if I fully quit Zed and then do a single Open in Zed from within Codex. All other clicking of the Zed button does nothing.
It doesn't bring the app to the forefront when clicked on any project in Codex.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Go to any project and click Open in Zen.
Or click any file pill created by the model and observe that Zed doesn't open.
What is the expected behavior?
Opening with Zed acts reliably like it does with other editors like VS Code.
Additional information
_No response_
5 Comments
Can confirm this is hapenning
Happening for me as well
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/215284c9-df42-4d68-bca3-45320c156bc6
+1 to this, it doesn't work for now
We've made a number of fixes in this part of the app. Are you still seeing this with the latest builds?
It's fine for me now, thanks