"Create your own pet" fails — "Unable to start pet creation" (hatch-pet skill missing from app.asar)

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### 您使用的是哪个版本的 Codex App？（来自“关于 Codex”对话框） 26.623.12021 ### 您订阅的是哪种服务？ ChatGPT Plus ### 你的电脑运行的是什么平台？ Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm ### 你遇到了什么问题？ 点击“设置”→“宠物”→“创建您自己的宠物”会显示红色提示“无法开始创建宠物”，然后没有任何反应。 桌面日志显示宠物创建流程依赖于此版本中不存在的捆绑技能： 警告 [electron-fetch-handler] 安装推荐技能失败 error="ENOENT, skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet not found in /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar" 我已确认 app.asar 文件中根本不存在字符串“hatch-pet”，因此该精选技能似乎未包含在发布包中。（注意重复的“skills/skills/”路径——可能是路径错误。）与 OpenAI 的网络连接正常，账户也已登录。每次都能重现此问题。 ### 重现此错误需要哪些步骤？ 1. 打开 Codex 桌面应用程序 2. 前往“设置”→“宠物”。 3. 点击“创建你自己的宠物” 4. 屏幕上出现红色提示“无法开始创建宠物”，流程始终无法启动。 无需项目/代码或会话——每次在“设置”中都会重现此问题。（这是一个用户界面/捆绑技能问题，而非对话错误，因此无需报告会话 ID/令牌使用情况。） ### 预期行为是什么？ _没有回应_ ### 附加信息 _没有回应_

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I can reproduce the same failure on Windows, so this does not appear to be macOS-specific.

Environment:

• Codex Desktop MSIX: OpenAI.Codex_26.623.9142.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0
• Codex app resources path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\OpenAI.Codex_26.623.9142.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0\app\resources
• Platform: Windows 11 x64
• Auth: signed in with ChatGPT account

Repro:

1. Open Codex Desktop.
2. Go to Settings -> Pets.
3. Click Create your own pet.
4. The UI shows Unable to start pet creation.

Relevant desktop log:

2026-07-01T06:23:38.344Z warning [electron-fetch-handler] Failed to install recommended skill error="ENOENT, skills\\skills\\.curated\\hatch-pet not found in C:\\Program Files\\WindowsApps\\OpenAI.Codex_26.623.9142.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0\\app\\resources\\app.asar"

Local checks:

• Searching the installed app resources did not find a usable bundled hatch-pet skill directory.
• Searching my local Codex skill/cache directories did not find hatch-pet either.
• The Pets page can still load existing custom pets from C:\Users\lee\.codex\pets\..., so this looks specific to the Create your own pet flow trying to install the missing recommended skill.
• The doubled path segment skills\\skills\\.curated\\hatch-pet appears in the Windows log too, matching the original report's skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet observation.

This happened after resolving an unrelated Windows bundled marketplace issue where Browser/Computer Use were unavailable due to a partial openai-bundled marketplace. After restarting Codex, Browser/Computer Use recovered, but this pet creation failure remained, which suggests it is independent of the plugin marketplace corruption and is likely a release packaging/path issue for hatch-pet itself.

Start a session and tell Codex: "Use the https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/hatch-pet skill to generate a pet for me: \<Pet Description\>", then restart Codex and you'll see your pet.

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I can reproduce this on macOS after a full Codex app restart.

Environment:

• Codex Desktop: 26.623.101652
• macOS: 26.5 (25F71)
• Architecture: arm64

Repro steps:

1. Open Codex Desktop.
2. Go to Pets settings.
3. Click Create your own pet.
4. Toast shows Unable to start pet creation.
5. Fully restart Codex Desktop and retry. The same error still occurs.

Relevant local log line after restart:

2026-07-06T01:36:00.876Z warning [electron-fetch-handler] Failed to install recommended skill error="ENOENT, skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet not found in /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar"

One extra detail that may help debugging: reading the app.asar header directly shows these entries are present in the archive:

skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet/
skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet/SKILL.md
skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet/scripts/prepare_pet_run.py

I was able to work around the problem by manually extracting skills/skills/.curated/hatch-pet from /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar into ~/.codex/skills/hatch-pet, then restarting Codex and invoking $hatch-pet directly. The Create your own pet button still appears to be the broken path.

FYI after the update to the unified ChatGPT + Codex it appears the system $hatch-pet skill has been restored. You should see an "update" prompt next to any custom pets you created in Codex.

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Simon Yawin @.***> 于 2026年7月10日周五 02:11写道：

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