Codex Web cannot open PRs

Open 💬 14 comments Opened May 4, 2026 by benglewis

What issue are you seeing?

Clicking "Create PR" produces the error "Failed to create PR"

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Run any Codex task then click "Create PR"

What is the expected behavior?

The PR should be opened successfully

Additional information

This is a sample task where I tried this:
task_b_69f89ad0654c8331ba4f6115986e8c04

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14 Comments

OverTitus · 2 months ago

Yeah Running into this issue

karelz-47 · 2 months ago

Hi, I have the same problem since today.

On top of the described "symptoms":

it worked fine for couple of PRs in 2 different repo's in Chorme incognito - then the same problem
it also does not allow to create new task or continue to discuss the existing one with error: "Nepodarilo sa vytvoriť sledovanie" / "It was not possible to create tracking"
one of the tasks that fails: /task_e_69f9f2635f188330ac5628b933f68adb
Windows, Chrome, ChatGPT Plus subscription

It seems similar also to Codex Cloud failing to create PR across multiple repos (patch works locally) however in that one its written that Codex generates changes - in my case changes were generated before this bug appeared and its not possible to create any new one.

Please let me know if its fine to have it here or to create new issue.

johnparker007 · 2 months ago

I have been experiencing this issue for a few hours now - UK based, $100 business plan. Create PR button gives red 'Failed to create PR' error.

jazz-cmd · 2 months ago

I am running into same issue!

drandev0 · 2 months ago

I have the same issue. It worked fine for 2 PRs today. Then started doing this, it creates a clone of my main branch in GitHub but doesn't modify any code. I tried on multiple respositories and no avail.

irgordon · 2 months ago

!image

Seems related to an API connection

shaghab · 2 months ago

The fix was simple in my case.

I went to: [https://github.com/[username]/[reponame]/branches](https://github.com/%5Busername%5D/%5Breponame%5D/branches)

Then I reviewed the list of branches and deleted many stale branches that showed:

Behind: 0
Ahead: 0

These branches were already fully merged or had no unique changes compared to the default branch. After cleaning them up, PR creation started working again.

olinkluzz1v · 2 months ago

Posting a screenshot from a different thread -

irgordon · 2 months ago

This issue has occured again--- some connector in the backend is failing or timing out.

@etraut-openai

johnparker007 · 2 months ago

This issue has occured again--- some connector in the backend is failing or timing out. @etraut-openai

Yes, just came here to post the same. Managed to do 1 PR about an hour ago, then my second PR has the usual bug back again:

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Also, I notice that the previous PR which has been Merged is still showing as Open in the list, which I am sure is related to the same issue:

olinkluzz1v · 2 months ago

Absolutely same issue over here as well.

johnparker007 · 2 months ago

OK I just refreshed it (F5 in browser) and it now shows that Open PR as Merged (correct). Then I went into the latest one, and clicked to Create PR, and it now works.

Hopefully that means it works for others too.

olinkluzz1v · 2 months ago

Works for me as well, seems like the issue is resolved.

johnparker007 · 1 month ago

Seeing this issue, UK biz plan: