Codex Spreadsheets missing load_workspace_dependencies

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 19, 2026 by versicherungs-vergleicher

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What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.144.5

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

VS Code integrated terminal 1.129.1

Codex doctor report

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What issue are you seeing?

The Spreadsheets plugin and its SKILL.md are available, but the required load_workspace_dependencies tool is not exposed in the
session. Therefore the required runtime path for @oai/artifact-tool cannot be loaded.

According to the Spreadsheets skill instructions, the attached Excel workbook must not be read with replacement libraries when this
runtime is unavailable. The workbook analysis is therefore blocked even though @Spreadsheets was explicitly selected and the .xlsx
file was attached.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019f77be-d66b-7af0-8a73-287a176d6349

What is the expected behavior?

When @Spreadsheets is selected, the session should expose load_workspace_dependencies. It should provide the supported node_modules
path containing @oai/artifact-tool so that the attached workbook can be inspected and rendered according to the Spreadsheets skill
instructions.

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 1 month ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#33666

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itomkins · 10 days ago

I can reproduce the same missing-tool failure in a current local Codex Desktop session on macOS. This persists after updating the desktop app, restarting it, and starting a fresh session.

Environment

macOS 26.6.1, ARM64
Codex Desktop app: 26.810.52044 (bundle build 6662)
Desktop-bundled CLI: codex-cli 0.148.0-alpha.9
Separately installed Homebrew CLI: codex-cli 0.147.0
Spreadsheets plugin: 26.813.12317
Model: gpt-5.6-sol

The desktop configuration points CODEX_CLI_PATH to the app-bundled CLI, so this reproduction is not executing through the Homebrew binary.

Feature state

The app-bundled CLI reports:

artifact                 under development  true
code_mode_host           stable             true
workspace_dependencies   stable             true

Actual result

The Spreadsheets plugin and mcp__node_repl__js are exposed, but load_workspace_dependencies is absent from the callable tool catalogue. A direct import in the provided Node runtime consequently returns:

{
  ok: false,
  name: 'Error',
  message: 'Module not found: @oai/artifact-tool'
}

Other tool-backed operations, including shell, web, and Node execution, work normally. This is therefore narrower than the code_mode_host=false / all-tools-unavailable regression reported in #37376.

The immediate failure matches this issue: the enabled Spreadsheets skill requires load_workspace_dependencies, but the host does not register that tool for the session. It is not yet reaching the later macOS native-module/code-signing failure described in #35055.

Expected behaviour: a fresh local Desktop session with the Spreadsheets plugin enabled and workspace_dependencies=true should expose load_workspace_dependencies and provide the approved runtime path containing @oai/artifact-tool.