Plugins briefly appear on launch, then disappear after Codex finishes loading

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 28, 2026 by markmdev Closed Mar 28, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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

26.325.21211 (build 1255)

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Codex desktop briefly shows new features (plugins) right when the app launches, then they disappear a moment later after the app fully loads.

I already tried all of the following and the behavior did not change:

  • updated Codex CLI from 0.116.0 to 0.117.0
  • cleared app caches
  • fully reset ~/Library/Application Support/Codex
  • fully reset ~/.codex

This seems unlikely to be a local cache/state issue at this point. It looks more like account-side feature gating / remote config
overriding the initial UI, or a desktop app bug tied to account state.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 031a56ce-b5c3-403c-8eee-df29257861e5

  1. Open Codex desktop
  2. Observe that new features briefly appear during startup
  3. Wait a moment for the app to finish loading
  4. The features disappear

This happens consistently across restarts, including after full local state resets.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • ##16006

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pbnsilva · 4 months ago

Hi @etraut-openai facing this as well and trying to understand why all issues are being marked as duplicate and there's no active issue with this bug. It seems many people are facing it.

summer521521 · 4 months ago
Hi @etraut-openai facing this as well and trying to understand why all issues are being marked as duplicate and there's no active issue with this bug. It seems many people are facing it.我也遇到了同样的问题,想弄明白为什么所有问题都被标记为重复,而且目前还没有人提交过关于这个 bug 的活跃问题。看来很多人都遇到了这个问题。

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