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Codex Issues / #11186

Hyperlinks not clickable

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 9, 2026 by jr-d3-data Closed Aug 5, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 260208.1016 (571)

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What issue are you seeing?

cant click on a hyperlink generated by codex. copy pasting it in a browser works, but is not user friendly

conversation ID: 019c40fc-8850-7922-8963-15ff27645886

What steps can reproduce the bug?

trying to get a hyperlink to any linear issue (or the like) from codex.

What is the expected behavior?

clicking on a link should directly open a browser window (or an app directly if deeplinks are used)

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

Meetpatel006 · 4 months ago

@jr-d3-data

Windows Codex Deeplink Notes

  • codex://settings works in the Codex docs and sometimes from the shell.
  • codex://threads/<thread-id> only worked reliably here when launched through the installed Codex.exe directly.
  • The working command shape is:
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\OpenAI.Codex_26.313.5234.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0\app\Codex.exe" -ArgumentList "codex://threads/<uuid>"

Root cause

  • The official docs say Codex registers the codex:// URL scheme and supports:
  • codex://settings
  • codex://skills
  • codex://automations
  • codex://threads/<thread-id>
  • codex://new
  • On this Windows machine, the installed package manifest did not expose a protocol registration entry for codex.
  • Because of that, raw Start-Process "codex://threads/..." could trigger the Windows "Get an app to open this 'codex' link" dialog.
  • Launching Codex.exe directly with the deeplink argument bypasses that OS-level protocol lookup.

Session id rule

  • Do not use the full rollout filename stem as the thread id.
  • This is wrong:
codex://threads/2026-03-25T22-46-16-019d25ff-3701-75d1-b331-160b90f8a456
  • Use the UUID stored in session_meta.payload.id.
  • For the checked session file:
  • Session file:

.codex\sessions\2026\03\25\rollout-2026-03-25T22-46-16-019d25ff-3701-75d1-b331-160b90f8a456.jsonl

  • Real id:

019d25ff-3701-75d1-b331-160b90f8a456

  • The correct deeplink is:
codex://threads/019d25ff-3701-75d1-b331-160b90f8a456

Docs reference

  • Codex app commands and deeplinks:

https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/commands#deeplinks

etraut-openai contributor · 23 days ago

Current link renderer supports clickable generated hyperlinks.