MCP startup is intermittently failing during initialize / Apps dependency unavailable due to Habitat rate limiting
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Feb 16, 2026 by artus-percivio
codex_apps MCP startup is intermittently failing during initialize against https://
chatgpt.com/backend-api/wham/apps. On 2026-02-16T14:58:31Z local log showed 503: {"detail":"Apps
dependency unavailable due to Habitat rate limiting"} (from ~/.codex/log/codex-tui.log line
110247). Direct authenticated probing reproduces intermittent 500 Internal Server Error between
successful 200 initialize responses (sample: 15 calls => 6 success / 9 failures). Example request
ids: ed5e43e7-9dbc-47a9-9090-dfd384aba281, b16f79d4-1ff9-4611-8499-45c1bed69097, 6df43c12-22b4-
4320-9613-4c5ae3a33652, fec4aab6-2535-4f69-a653-c11dbec89d44.