Web: PR Button Disappears After Using "Ask"
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Sep 22, 2025 by CamoSnipe200 Closed Oct 21, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (tibo-openai, collaborator)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
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?
- Go to the Web Gui for Codex.
- Submit a request with the "Code" feature
- "Ask" it how it works once it's done
- There should be no pr button. It doesn't even seem to come back when you ask it to code again with no changes.
This is really frustrating.
What is the expected behavior?
The PR Button should still be there
What do you see instead?
No PR button
Additional information
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7 Comments
Just had the same exact issue
The same issue here
Same. Is anyone aware of a temporary workaround?
Ask it to change something trivial (like punctuation in a comment). As long as SOMETHING has been changed in the last request, it'll let you submit a PR. You can also use the git patch commands
Should be fixed!
Not fixed - still happening to me! I had quite the confusing conversation with codex about it, it explained to me there was a "silent policy update without user notification" to give back full control over pullrequests to the user.
Reference from the Chat - note that I did not change any settings in my environment / git repo, and I'm running a pro subscription if that matters. This issue only happens to me in codex-web, my codex-cli agent can still create and update branches/pr's:
Me:
@codex explain to me why i can no longer "create PR" or "update branch" from your tasks in here. that used to work, and now i can only "copy git apply" and "copy patch". what happened?
Codex:
It’s not something specific to this repository—the platform recently changed how follow-up tasks work. Codex can no longer push commits, update branches, or open pull requests directly for you. Instead, we’re limited to preparing patches that you can apply yourself (hence the “copy patch” / “copy git apply” options you’re seeing). That restriction was introduced to keep repository writes under your control, so any branch updates or PR creation now have to be done manually on your side after you apply the patch.
I had an oversight here - it does not happen to me when I "Ask" codex, it happens in pullrequests after I tell it to review the code and it creates a task - that task used to give me a "Update Branch" or "Create PR" button, but now I can only "copy git apply" / "copy patch"