Codex Sites publishing controls unavailable

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.707.91948

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Title: Codex Sites publishing controls unavailable

Sites publishing repeatedly fails because the required publishing/deployment controls are unavailable. The app builds and runs successfully locally, but Codex cannot publish the saved update.

Feedback ID: 019f5d6f-b86f-74e0-aba3-700ee4e3253f

This has continued across multiple publishing attempts.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Open Codex Desktop version 26.707.91948 on macOS.

Open an existing Sites project containing .openai/hosting.json.

Build the project locally. The build completes successfully.

Ask Codex: @sites resume publishing

Alternatively ask: Publish the saved Chef Fowke Spends update

Codex recognizes the Sites workflow but cannot access the publishing/deployment actions required to save and deploy the new version.

Repeat the publishing request. The same problem continues even though the app remains functional locally.

Minimal project configuration:

{
"project_id": "<existing Sites project ID>"
}

Build command:

pnpm run build

Expected result:

Codex should package the successful build, save a new Sites version, deploy it, and return the updated site URL.

Actual result:

The local build succeeds, but the Sites publishing controls/actions are unavailable to Codex. The saved update cannot be deployed.

Session/feedback ID:

019f5d6f-b86f-74e0-aba3-700ee4e3253f

Token-limit and context-window usage are not displayed in my Codex Desktop interface, so those values are unavailable.

What is the expected behavior?

After a successful local build, Codex should have access to the Sites publishing actions needed to package the project, save a new site version, deploy it to the existing Sites project, monitor the deployment until completion, and return the updated live URL.

Repeated requests such as @sites resume publishing should resume or restart the publishing process without losing the saved application changes.

Additional information

The application itself is working locally. The latest build completes successfully and all 19 regression checks pass. The problem appears limited to the Sites publishing integration rather than the application code.

The existing live site remains available, but new saved updates cannot be deployed. Multiple publishing attempts were made using both normal instructions and @sites resume publishing.

The issue was also submitted through Codex’s built-in feedback tool.

Feedback ID: 019f5d6f-b86f-74e0-aba3-700ee4e3253f