Codex stopped doing Code Reviews in GitHub (just gives eyes/looking emoji but nothing more)
Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Sep 17, 2025 by JC1738 Closed Jan 13, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
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Which model were you using?
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What platform is your computer?
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What steps can reproduce the bug?
For the past 12 hours, PRs receive the eyes emoji from Codex Bot, but the actual code review doesn't happen. It was working, but ~ 12 hours ago we just now only get "Looking" response, and the eyes never disappear and the code review never ahppens.
What is the expected behavior?
After a short time, the looking gets removed and an actual code review happens.
What do you see instead?
Just the eyes emoji. We have two repos and both are having this problem, it started about 12-15 hours ago.
Additional information
This was working, but now it stopped.
9 Comments
Also seeing this
this happening to me too.
<img width="944" height="372" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/87f76281-644a-4c8c-808b-34d9370c84b4" />
Same right now
same here
It's happening today as well after uninstalling and installing again the Connector.
EDIT: Nvm, it took a bit then did it.
It could mean that the job is queued up and that it will process it at some point. Claude does the same it seems.
However, it would be good to have it documented somewhere or in the case the job fails somehow, re-schedule it or leave a heads up comment.
No one has upvoted or commented on this bug in more than two months, so I think it's safe to close. If you see similar behavior with a newer version of Codex, please open a new bug report and provide details.
<img width="2082" height="896" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25824d2a-0c8b-46c4-840e-13f4132207ea" />
again:
<img width="2998" height="788" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b314ac2b-752e-4827-88e9-84b0c834bc40" />
maybe they are just queued? Can i check progress somewhere?
same here
Just wait. The eyes mean codex it is reviewing it. You'll see the review pop up eventually.