403 Forbidden error in the middle of normal usage
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 20, 2026 by JonathanRodriguezBluedrop Closed Apr 21, 2026
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.121.0
What subscription do you have?
Not sure. It's a business license, though
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.4-mini medium
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Windows Developer Command Prompt VS2022
What issue are you seeing?
Just started getting this error during normal usage: Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 403 Forbidden: Unknown error, url:
https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact, cf-ray: 9ef4e6b21dfa247e-EWR
Started a new instance of codex in another shell window, still a 403 error preventing use.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019daaaf-370a-7dc2-a415-09e8080bd7a8
Uploaded thread: 019dab58-67b9-7eb2-b758-3b448dbe8442
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
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