Codex App intermittently ignores mouse clicks after enabling pets

What version of the Codex App are you using?

Codex App 26.429.30905 (CFBundleVersion 2345), from /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Info.plist.

What platform is your computer?

macOS 26.3.1 (a) / build 25D771280a, Apple Silicon (arm64).

What issue are you seeing?

The Codex desktop app intermittently stops responding to mouse clicks, or appears to drop click events.

Observed behavior:

• Clicking into the chat composer sometimes does not show a caret/cursor.
• Even when no caret appears, keyboard input can still be typed into the composer.
• Clicking a thread in the thread list sometimes does nothing; the selected/open thread does not change.
• Repeated clicks sometimes eventually work.
• The failure feels like mouse/click registration is intermittent rather than the whole app being completely frozen.

Expected behavior

A single click should focus the chat composer and show the caret, or open/select the clicked thread.

Steps to reproduce

This is intermittent so far, not a clean deterministic repro yet.

1. Open Codex desktop app on macOS.
2. Use the app normally across chats/threads.
3. Click in the chat composer, or click a thread in the thread list.
4. Sometimes the click is ignored; repeated clicks may eventually succeed.

Possible trigger / correlation

The issue started suddenly after I began using Codex pets the previous day. I do not know whether pets are causally related, but the timing is notable enough to include.

Diagnostics already checked

• Local app bundle version and macOS version are included above.
• Recent Codex desktop logs did not show an obvious click/mouse/pointer error tied directly to the behavior.
• I avoided pasting raw logs because they include local workspace paths and task/thread identifiers, but can provide specific log excerpts if helpful.

Additional context

The app remains usable enough that typing can work after the attempted focus, which makes this different from a simple full UI freeze. The most visible symptom is that mouse interactions with the composer and thread list are intermittently ignored until clicking multiple times.