Codex stops working
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Nov 5, 2025 by yashness Closed Nov 5, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
v0.55.0
What subscription do you have?
ChatGPT Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5-codex
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
Codex just stops & doesn't work as intended to solve the problem at hand.
<img width="2503" height="969" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20ef42a1-3699-4400-8efb-57cfc27169d8" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019a557a-c2ba-7162-b485-48934b164b7d
What is the expected behavior?
It should relentlessly solve the task at hand.
Additional information
_No response_
5 Comments
Also just now started seeing this - thread id:
019a5553-32c9-7123-a2dd-1fe4dd4462fbGiven number of folks hitting the thumbs up in last 30 seconds, might be an outage? Seeing same issue.
Think we have an outage folks
Currently any tool call accept the planning tool call just fails out of nowhere and codex completely haults:
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:32:20.478378Z^[[0m ^[[32m INFO^[[0m waiting for tool gate^[[2m2025-11-05T19:32:20.478382Z^[[0m ^[[32m INFO^[[0m tool gate released
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:32:23.419781Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:32:59.712795Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:34:20.148920Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:34:37.556134Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:34:43.463554Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:34:52.851103Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:35:05.969371Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
^[[2m2025-11-05T19:35:18.126569Z^[[0m ^[[33m WARN^[[0m Unexpected response item: Other with response: None
https://status.openai.com/incidents/01K9ARX310CM6V219R0GF7RNC9
We had a temporary service outage that affected codex. Should be working again now. Let us know if you're still seeing a problem.