Codex CLI hangs forever
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Nov 22, 2025 by Z-Lemke Closed Nov 22, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.63.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 23.5.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
I am working on building a non-coding agent using codex-cli to see if I can get custom specialist agent functionality using context engineering for various use cases without needing to write custom deep agent code. Unfortunately, when trying to use the codex-cli, despite my usage having 95% remaining, codex-cli will hang for minutes and minutes before responding.
It doesn't appear to even begin thinking, it just hangs. The longest I was willing to wait was 15 minutes.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019aacf2-1ff1-7142-8259-1d51261dbef6
What is the expected behavior?
The codex-cli should begin responding/ working immediately after input is given.
Additional information
_No response_
5 Comments
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@Z-Lemke same thing here. looks like massive incident or something. I just installed it, doesn't reply to "hello"
same as well
https://incidenthub.cloud/status/openai/chatgpt-codex
https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KAPG4EE5JWEV04TPZ2SNNK8X
Thanks for reporting the problem. The service is down in some geographies. The team is working on it. Closing in favor of https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/7156.