Codex Windows app web-fetch returns stale GitHub content for youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Apr 6, 2026 by barrytone86
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.325.31654
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
The web-fetch tool in the Codex Windows app appears to return stale data for this repo:
- Repo: https://github.com/youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro
- Changelog HTML: https://github.com/youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- Changelog raw: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro/master/CHANGELOG.md
- Releases: https://github.com/youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro/releases
Expected on April 6, 2026:
- latest version is v1.9.4
Actual from the Codex Windows app web-fetch tool:
- releases page showed v1.4.1
- raw changelog showed v1.7.1
- HTML changelog showed v1.7.2
So different GitHub endpoints for the same repo were stale by different amounts.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open the three godot-mcp-pro URLs above through the Codex Windows app web-fetch tool.
- Compare the latest visible version with a normal browser.
- Observe stale and internally inconsistent repo state in the app (v1.4.1 / v1.7.1 / v1.7.2) vs current browser state (v1.9.4).
What is the expected behavior?
Current GitHub content consistent with browser, or at least a visible indication that cached content is being served.
Additional information
This was not reproducible in a normal browser:
- browser showed current content (v1.9.4)
- private browser window with the documented ChatGPT-User/1.0 UA also showed current content
- That suggests the issue is likely in the web retrieval path used by the Codex Windows app rather than GitHub serving stale content to that UA. Is codex using a cache maybe?
For comparison, other GitHub pages looked fresh through the same app web-fetch path at the same time, including: