Codex VS Code extension stopped working after being prompted to download the mac codex app

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 10, 2026 by skeie Closed Feb 11, 2026

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

0.5.72

What subscription do you have?

Business Plan

Which IDE are you using?

VS code

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 23.2.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

This is the only response I get

<img width="522" height="136" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/66d9fbe0-3ca5-4275-a27e-28952a8f6094" />

<img width="530" height="181" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da9805fa-cc51-497d-9d01-99ea570f34ad" />

What I've tried

✅ Delete ~/.codex/auth.json to trigger a re-auth
✅ Re-install the extension
✅ Switch to release version
✅ Deleted the codex mac app

Chatgpt works as expected

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Everything worked yesterday until I was prompted in the extension to download the codex mac app, I then did, followed the installation instructions and then I got the above error in the mac app, I then switched back to vs code and saw the same error, and its been like this since that.

What is the expected behavior?

Answer the questions, modify files.

Additional information

<img width="297" height="89" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3de5ea9b-c768-4c3c-8893-a0577bcef962" />

The more I tried, the more the percentage here kept growing

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