Can’t write curly braces or paste curly braces in terminal
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Sep 3, 2025 by Marcus-Peterson Closed Nov 19, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
Latest as of writing
Which model were you using?
Honestly, it doesn’t matter. It has nothing to do with LLM’s
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What steps can reproduce the bug?
So, I discovered this first when I tried to simply type:{
And I was unable to type a simple curly brace.
At first I thought something was wrong with my keyboard and it was not
Then I tried to copy paste a http message:
{“detail”:”Unauthorized header”} funnily enough when copy pasting that into the running codex terminal it instead looked like this:
“detail”:”Unauthorized header”
The terminal just decided to remove the curly braces
What is the expected behavior?
I expect to be able to write some curly braces
What do you see instead?
Not curly braces, that’s for sure
Additional information
I want my curly braces man
2 Comments
Same issue here. This bug is a massive turn off...
This should now be fixed in 0.59.0.