Windows Computer Use unavailable: native pipe missing in Codex Desktop 26.602.30954
### 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:
- Inject the native Computer Use pipe metadata into sessions where the plugin is available, or
- Clearly report why Computer Use is unavailable, rather than exposing the skill while bootstrap fails.
Related issue
This appears related to:
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