Outputting a bunch of gibberish

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Apr 2, 2026 by KustomKode Closed Apr 2, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.118.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 21.6.0 x86_64 i386

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Terminal.app

What issue are you seeing?

I did a normal /review of uncommitted changes. Afterwords, I responded with a statement and it thought for a very long time, and then it output a bunch of meaningless gibberish

<img width="1746" height="393" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e80fd81-2080-4641-bb42-f6686cb26ae6" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019d4cae-0885-7481-8bdc-4b73a9b39787

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

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

  • #16389
  • #15027

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etraut-openai contributor · 4 months ago

Thanks for the bug report. We'll share the feedback with the team responsible for training our codex models. We're tracking this feedback and similar reports so we can improve future models. And thanks for using the /feedback command. That additional information is useful.

Relaxandrenew · 4 months ago

This is now happening to me as well

kermit-floor · 4 months ago

Happening after a few compactions in Codex CLI.