MCP startup incomplete (failed: computer-use)

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@river-walras — the MCP startup incomplete (failed: computer-use) error on 26.513.20950 / macOS 15.7.3 looks like the same downstream symptom as the bundled-marketplace regeneration bug @ShalevZorany identified in #21579 (and which surfaces slightly differently for @Scubasteve417 in #22927 as runtime app is missing).

Quickest diagnostic — grep your Codex Desktop logs right after a relaunch:

bundled_plugins_runtime_marketplace_written pluginCount=2 pluginNames=["browser","latex"]
bundled_plugin_uninstall_requested pluginId=computer-use@openai-bundled

If both lines appear on every startup, the cache / codesign / LaunchServices state aren't the issue — Codex Desktop is regenerating the bundled marketplace as browser + latex only, and removing computer-use with reason=not_in_bundled_marketplace_plugin_names. That's why MCP startup never completes for computer-use: the plugin gets uninstalled before the runtime can complete the handshake.

One thing specific to macOS 15.7.3 worth checking: LC_BUILD_VERSION on the bundled SkyComputerUseClient. If the bundled binary was built targeting macOS 15.0+ and you've stayed on a 15.7.x patch, that's fine — but if you upgraded down from a 15.8+ build at some point, there can be a Mach-O minos mismatch that surfaces as the same MCP startup incomplete symptom but is actually a separate cause:

/usr/bin/otool -l "/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/openai-bundled/computer-use/"*/SkyComputerUseClient | grep -A 2 LC_BUILD_VERSION

If minos is higher than your current macOS, that's the gap and the marketplace-regeneration log lines won't help — you need a Codex build whose bundled client targets your OS.

Until OpenAI fixes the marketplace-regeneration path, the workaround documented in #21579 is to restore openai-bundled from /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/openai-bundled after each launch. Not great, but it gets you a working Computer Use.

(Longer write-up of the runtime / cache / marketplace distinctions for this error class: https://igorganapolsky.github.io/openclaw-mac-ai-workstation-setup/computer-use-plugin-unavailable.html)

For what it's worth, this now seems to be working for me after updating Codex.

My guess is that it may have been related to the recent Computer Use / plugin availability rollout in Europe, which now appears to be available. I am actually based in Israel, so the regional behavior was a bit confusing, but after updating Codex the feature is visible and working on my machine.

It may be worth checking again after updating to the latest Codex build.