windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened May 15, 2026 by hugoattal Closed May 15, 2026
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.130.0
What subscription do you have?
Business
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5 xhigh fast
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
_No response_
Codex doctor report
not available
What issue are you seeing?
Codex always fails to retrieve my skills on the first attempt with execution error: Io(Custom { kind: Other, error: "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5" })
I’ll use the clean-js-ts and general-code guidance here, then inspect the Vite plugin and make the smallest change that disables it during SSR.
• Running Get-Content -Path docs\vite\importMap.plugin.ts
• Running Get-Content -Path C:\Users\hugoa\.codex\skills\clean-js-ts\SKILL.md
• Ran Get-Content -Path C:\Users\hugoa\.codex\skills\general-code\SKILL.md
└ execution error: Io(Custom { kind: Other, error: "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5" })
• Ran Get-Content -Path docs\vite\importMap.plugin.ts
└ execution error: Io(Custom { kind: Other, error: "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5" })
• Ran Get-Content -Path C:\Users\hugoa\.codex\skills\clean-js-ts\SKILL.md
└ execution error: Io(Custom { kind: Other, error: "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5" })
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Any prompt
What is the expected behavior?
Don't fail with execution error: Io(Custom { kind: Other, error: "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5" })
Additional information
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