Branch name generation appears broken in Codex Cloud

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 24, 2026 by ozbbussines-creator

What issue are you seeing?

I have configured the branch format as:

codex/{feature}

Previously, Codex generated branch names correctly, for example:

codex/fix-memory-leak
codex/update-ui

Then it started generating:

codex/-

and now it generates:

codex

It looks like the {feature} placeholder is no longer being resolved correctly and is often replaced with an empty string.

This causes problems with our tooling because branch names are no longer descriptive or unique.

Steps to reproduce:

Set branch format to codex/{feature}.
Create a new Codex Cloud task with a non-English title.
Observe that the generated branch name is codex instead of codex/<feature-name>.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Steps to reproduce:

Set branch format to codex/{feature}.
Create a new Codex Cloud task with a non-English title.
Observe that the generated branch name is codex instead of codex/<feature-name>.

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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