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Codex App settings show "unknown variant vertical" in Browser and Computer use pages

Open 💬 7 comments Opened May 31, 2026 by DavidDDDDDR

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.527.31326

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

In the Windows Codex App settings, both the Browser page and the Computer use page show this error:

Invalid request: unknown variant 'vertical', expected one of 'local', 'workspace-directory', 'shared-with-me'

This appears in the UI instead of the expected browser/computer-use settings.

I also hit what appears to be the same issue when Codex asked me to install/authorize the GitHub connector. After I approved the install prompt, Codex opened the browser. When the browser flow returned to Codex, the flow failed with the same kind of error.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open Codex App on Windows.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Open Browser.
  4. Observe the error panel:

Invalid request: unknown variant 'vertical', expected one of 'local', 'workspace-directory', 'shared-with-me'

  1. Open Computer use.
  2. Observe the same error.
  3. Ask Codex to install/authorize the GitHub connector.
  4. Approve the prompt.
  5. Codex opens the browser for the authorization/install flow.
  6. After the browser flow returns to Codex, the flow fails.

What is the expected behavior?

The Browser and Computer use settings should load normally, and the GitHub connector authorization/install return flow should complete without the vertical enum/variant error.

Additional information

I searched existing issues and did not find an exact duplicate. A possibly related merged PR is https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/23584, which mentions adding vertical remote plugin collection support.

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7 Comments

DavidDDDDDR · 1 month ago

Update: this also happens on the Plugins page. The page shows "插件加载失败" / "Plugin loading failed" with the same error:

Invalid request: unknown variant 'vertical', expected one of 'local', 'workspace-directory', 'shared-with-me'

This suggests the failure is in the shared plugin/list / plugin marketplace path, not only in Browser or Computer use settings.

manevrit21 · 1 month ago

I am seeing the same unknown variant vertical issue on Windows 11 with ChatGPT Plus.

Environment:

  • Platform: Microsoft Windows 11, Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
  • Codex CLI/runtime: codex-cli 0.137.0
  • Global npm package: @openai/codex@0.137.0
  • Subscription: ChatGPT Plus

In my case the error appears in:

  • Plugins directory
  • Computer use / Management settings

Error:
Invalid request: unknown variant vertical, expected one of local, workspace-directory, shared-with-me

I fully uninstalled Codex, removed local state as much as possible, downloaded and installed Codex again, but the issue still persists.

I opened #26492 before seeing this duplicate suggestion. Closing mine as duplicate if this is the canonical issue.

MeXenon · 1 month ago

Same issue. I don't know what happened to the Codex these days. Most of the features are just disabled or disappeared, or something happened to them like built-in browser, and I don't know what's going on.

<img width="1919" height="995" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/033f3657-cf8c-4dd6-834c-0ff4461580df" />

manevrit21 · 1 month ago

<img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63ea0ab4-30f3-4de0-ac47-85d7c3158205" />

<img width="1919" height="1079" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/41c1eee1-75a5-47de-a3d9-c1179335f6a5" />

manevrit21 · 1 month ago

<img width="1919" height="1079" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e4eb0016-24f4-43d0-82d3-cc072ebed014" /> Thanks for confirming. This looks related, but my failure mode is a bit different.

In my case, the Browser / Computer use / Plugins pages do not just show disabled or unavailable. They fail with this schema error:

Invalid request: unknown variant 'vertical', expected one of 'local', 'workspace-directory', 'shared-with-me'

Environment:

  • Windows 11
  • ChatGPT Plus
  • Codex CLI/runtime: codex-cli 0.137.0
  • Global npm package: @openai/codex@0.137.0

I also fully uninstalled/reinstalled Codex and removed local state as much as possible, but the issue still persists.

So it seems like some recent feature/plugin/browser rollout left parts of the desktop UI and app-server out of sync. Features either show as disabled/unavailable, disappear, or fail with enum/schema errors depending on account/build/region.

jackwu-iii · 1 month ago

The same issue. Feedback ID: no-active-thread-019e9564-3ccd-79f2-b994-465879bfcacb

  • WIN 11
  • ChatGPT Pro
  • Codex version: 26.602.30954

After my PC update to 0.137.0, all computer use plugin is missing, also can not find in store.

But, other PC(like my work NB) not update, still on 0.136.0, it properly work fine.

I try to re-install PC Codex (0.137.0) node or other, restart app, kill all background app. It's not work.

I think plugin have support version issue to fix. It is not support for 0.137.0.

Need to fix it as soon as possible. Need a hotfix issue.

mafhper · 1 month ago

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