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Windows Computer Use unavailable: native pipe missing in Codex Desktop 26.602.30954

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jun 5, 2026 by SatriaSuriaAriffin Closed Jun 23, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

### What version of the Codex App are you using?

Codex Desktop for Windows:
Version 26.602.30954

Released: 5 Jun 2026

The installed WindowsApps package path observed from PowerShell is:

OpenAI.Codex_26.602.3474.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0

Platform

Windows x64

What issue are you seeing?

Computer Use is listed as available in the local skill/plugin context, but runtime bootstrap fails with:

Computer Use native pipe path is unavailable

This prevents Computer Use from controlling Windows apps.

Diagnostics

The cached Computer Use plugin exists locally:

C:\Users\satri\.codex\plugins\cache\openai-bundled\computer-use\26.527.31326

The plugin cache includes:

node_modules\@oai\sky\bin\windows\codex-computer-use.exe

However, the active session does not expose native pipe metadata. nodeRepl.requestMeta only includes:

[
  "progressToken",
  "threadId",
  "x-codex-turn-metadata"
]

No native pipe, SKY_CUA, computer-use, or CUA metadata keys are present.

Live named pipes include browser-use pipes, but no codex-computer-use-* pipe:

LOCAL\mojo.plugin_browser_pipe_Default_
codex-browser-use\d685f0d3-8d08-4189-b9c8-13203bd1465a
codex-ipc
codex-browser-use-1fbe57d7-dab2-4ba3-a0f9-bf651dbc3217

Running codex plugin list from this environment fails with:

Program 'codex.exe' failed to run: Access is denied

Expected behavior

Computer Use should either:

  1. Inject the native Computer Use pipe metadata into sessions where the plugin is available, or
  2. Clearly report why Computer Use is unavailable, rather than exposing the skill while bootstrap fails.

Related issue

This appears related to:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/26204

View original on GitHub ↗

3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

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

  • #26528
  • #26204
  • #25391
  • #25507
  • #26329

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joshuaflower · 2 months ago

I can confirm this still reproduces on a newer Windows Codex Desktop build.

Environment:

  • Codex Desktop: 26.602.71036, released Jun 8, 2026
  • Subscription: Codex 20x / highest plan
  • Platform: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

Observed behavior matches this issue closely:

  • Settings > Uso do computador shows: “Plugins de uso do computador indisponíveis”.
  • “Computer Use: Computer Use” appears under Skills and is enabled.
  • Searching Plugins for “computer” does not show a Computer Use plugin.
  • Browser and Chrome automation work in the same Codex installation.
  • Computer Use fails before app listing / list_apps() / Windows control with:
Computer Use native pipe path is unavailable

Local session check:

hasNativePipe: false
SKY_CUA_NATIVE_PIPE_DIRECTORY: null/missing

This looks like the skill is visible/enabled, but the native pipe/runtime metadata required by the Computer Use skill is not exposed in the session. I can provide private logs or a /feedback session ID through the private feedback channel if needed.

SatriaSuriaAriffin · 2 months ago

Computer Use is working now. However, Codex UI still says that there is no Computer Use plugin available. So, I guess it's just a minor UI bug. I tried Computer Use and it works.