Codex can't read in screenshots that you paste into it

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 7, 2026 by joshp123 Closed Jan 7, 2026

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.79.0

What subscription do you have?

€225/mo tokenmaxxed one

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex high

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.1.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

When using the native codex screenshot paste feature (ctrl+V) to paste a screenshot, codex cannot read it

"I couldn't open the screenshot file on disk (can't locate codex-clipboard-A3rFBq.png)."

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019b9829-7f6a-7843-844b-e8ba508658b1

What is the expected behavior?

Codex can read in the screenshot.

Additional information

this has been happening since xmas or so. not a new issue

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