Everytime I go idle for too long, some output from something leaks into my input

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened May 10, 2026 by brunolm Closed May 10, 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 0.130.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

GPT-5.5

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26220.0 x64

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

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

output of something leaks into my input

<img width="270" height="134" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/91ea1275-a3fe-45b0-88d7-68bae8329b7e" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. ask something
  2. go idle for a long time (I don't know how long exactly, 30m+ probably)

What is the expected behavior?

clean input/terminal

actual:

  • leaked outputs

Additional information

Also seen in codex-cli 0.129.0

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

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

  • #22050
  • #20869
  • #20845

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etraut-openai contributor · 3 months ago

Thanks for the bug report, but there's not enough detail here for us to investigate. We'll need more specific repro steps.

It's likely that this is specific to your system configuration. My recommendation is that you clone the codex repo and then ask codex to help you diagnose the problem.

brunolm · 3 months ago

<img width="895" height="279" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/19109a62-add7-4638-a4ff-7a48b1b2c4fa" />

brunolm · 3 months ago

<img width="404" height="141" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0175e900-a810-49cc-b168-5b5ae4e58ad1" />