Still unusable for daily work on 💙 Windows

Yea windows version has never worked imo use WSL and run it through linux.

Images dont work but the rest of it works solid

I tried installing the IDE extension, and it fixes the path issue and also allows pasting images (the model really reads them, tested).

However, the safety gate still cannot be disabled. So this is a temporary workaround for 2/3 problems.

<img width="1006" height="818" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/80ad76b1-2c1c-472e-b6b2-9beffc6aae04" />

@jamneutrino

Yea windows version has never worked imo use WSL and run it through linux. Images dont work but the rest of it works solid

Sure, WSL is an option, but it is not native support. It is a workaround in a sandboxed Linux environment. I also run into many issues there with MCP servers that I run locally. For example, Playwright MCP does not work properly with the Chromium browser in WSL, etc. That is why native support needs to be improved.

I tried installing the IDE extension, and it fixes the path issue and also allows pasting images (the model really reads them, tested). However, the safety gate still cannot be disabled. So this is a temporary workaround for 2/3 problems. <img alt="Image" width="1006" height="818" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/118981852/483113504-80ad76b1-2c1c-472e-b6b2-9beffc6aae04.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NTY0MDM2MjcsIm5iZiI6MTc1NjQwMzMyNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMTg5ODE4NTIvNDgzMTEzNTA0LTgwYWQ3NmIxLTJjMWMtNDcyZS1iNmIyLTliZWZmYzZhYWUwNC5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjUwODI4JTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI1MDgyOFQxNzQ4NDdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT04Nzg3MjZlNThlOTA5MDNiNWMwOTc3NWZkOGRjNjdlZGFmYjg1NmU0MzY2NWVkZDQwMGM3NjBkZGMzY2UwNDc3JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.NLRtUS3u2FRR7z9ABFqHVIAx7pu1HGuVf7IKjX46wIw"> @jamneutrino > Yea windows version has never worked imo use WSL and run it through linux. > Images dont work but the rest of it works solid Sure, WSL is an option, but it is not native support. It is a workaround in a sandboxed Linux environment. I also run into many issues there with MCP servers that I run locally. For example, Playwright MCP does not work properly with the Chromium browser in WSL, etc. That is why native support needs to be improved.

How do you get the codex extension to even see your repo?

im getting:

I tried to scan the repo, but shell access isn’t available in this session, so I can’t read the files to identify it yet.

If you paste the top-level file list (and any README), I can tell you exactly what this project is. Quick ways to gather that:

PowerShell (top-level): Get-ChildItem -Force
PowerShell (key manifests): Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File -Name | Select-String -Pattern 'README|package.json|pnpm-lock|yarn.lock|pyproject.toml|poetry.lock|requirements.txt|Pipfile|go.mod|Cargo.toml|Gemfile|composer.json|Dockerfile|Makefile|vite.config|next.config|angular.json|astro.config|nuxt.config|gatsby-config|svelte.config'
Show contents if present: type README*, type package.json, type pyproject.toml, etc.
What I’ll look for:

package manifests (e.g., package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod) to detect language/framework
framework markers (e.g., next.config.mjs, vite.config.ts, astro.config.mjs)
build/deploy files (Dockerfile, Makefile, CI configs)
app structure (e.g., src/, pages/, public/, templates/)
Share that output (or the README), and I’ll summarize the project clearly.

@marektomas-cz Windows is not my primary OS, but I am invested in making Codex work well on Windows, so to help me understand:

• Is cmd.exe your primary shell (as opposed to PowerShell)
• Do you expect Codex to run "batch scripts" and/or PowerShell scripts?
• Do you have Git for Windows installed such that you have Git Bash installed and expect Codex to be able to use POSIX utilities?

@bolinfest

• I use Nushell, but I see the same problem in any shell on Windows, so this is not related to the shell.

_// I am not sure I fully understand the other questions or how they relate. Git for Windows is installed._

The problem is in "codex-rs/apply-patch/src/lib.rs". The check looks for apply_patch at index 0, but in a Windows shell index 0 is pwsh, so the check never passes.

pwsh is there because of the bridge defined in "codex-rs/core/src/shell.rs".

So I think the fix is to update "codex-rs/apply-patch/src/lib.rs" so it does not only look for apply_patch at index 0, but instead walks the AST and finds the apply_patch call even when it is inside the shell.

If you need any other details, let me know.

Those should be fixed.