Codex can't read in screenshots that you paste into it
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 7, 2026 by joshp123 Closed Jan 7, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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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
2 Comments
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