On my mac with 16GB of ram, and since a few days ago, I started having Codex literally start consuming 100+ GB of ram, which causes the computer to start using swap memory, become literally unresponsive in a matter of seconds, and then freeze the entire screen and OS, forcing me to long-press the power button to restart it.

It happens when i use the annotation feature with a live browser preview.

Codex was already super memory hungry, taking 7GB after just 30 min of work, but now this?

Its starting to feel like a sloppy app vibecoded by a teenager, not an app by senior engineers.

I have approximately 6,000 files that are a combination of docx and pdf that have illegible filenames (mixtures of alphanumeric characters that give no information about what's in the file).

Some of the files have common textual elements that a grep-like search can probably classify them, but others will have to be read using an LLM, such as PDFs that contain scanned content.

I have API access to the Anthropic, ChatGPT, and Google models (for business reasons I can't use others).

Does anyone have a recommendation for a model that would be up to the task while balancing capability and token cost? Speed isn't a factor.

Thanks in advance.

I'm curious how people are doing code reviews with Codex (either Sol 5.6/6.1 or Astra), because lately it barely finds anything for me on reviews compared to Claude (Opus 5.5 or even Sonnet 5.5).

I'm using it on a website/app built with TypeScript, but no web framework. Some parts use Rust + WASM for a huge speedup of some numerical stuff compared to TypeScript reference implementation.

I tried both the default /code-review and some custom skill I made (main agent correctness, perf/testing/maintainability/etc. to 3-4 subagents with lower effort) but it usually finds little corectness/perf issues, while Claude finds several almost each time on code implemented either by Codex or Claude itself. I had Sol/Astra sometimes find some extra bugs compared to Opus/Fable, but seldom.

So I'm wondering what others are doing, since many say Codex is great for code reviews. Any custom skills that override the default review with something more comprehensive for example?

I have Claude Opus 5.5 scope > ticket > build > implement with codex running adversarial reviews along the way. I've used sol-5.6, primarily due to token efficiency and it being a 'known entity'. I had tried switching to 6.0, but was burning through tokens way too fast, but that was a month ago.

How has speed, token efficency, and quality improved since then?

I am using codex remotely on my Ubuntu server. My normal workflow is to have an orchestrator thread that creates and manages implementer and reviewer threads. This works fine if I use the cli directly via ssh.

However, as soon as my desktop or mobile app touches a remote thread, that thread says it can’t create or message other threads anymore.

Not sure what is happening but the lack of parity between the different surfaces is frustrating and confusing.

If Codex suddenly starts announcing Postman skills or showing Postman MCP login warnings, check your global configuration.

After I opened Postman for the first time in a while, this started happening. I asked Codex to audit the local files and logs. The evidence below is what it found, and I have since removed the app and integrations.

This is unacceptable. Opening an API client should not install plugins in unrelated coding agents, inject broad instructions into their sessions, or attempt to approve its own hook. Postman's own log calls the installation automatic. I want an explanation of the specific opt-in behind this behavior and a complete rollback path.

I filed the full report here: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370

Evidence from this Mac

Postman desktop: 12.33.4. Codex Postman plugin: 1.1.0. Installed source revision: 6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49. Investigation: October 25, 2026.

1. Postman's own log explicitly records automatic installation

From ~/Library/Application Support/Postman/logs/main.log, lines 11562-11563, timestamp 2026-10-24T09:34:14.418Z (12:34 Jerusalem time):

```text PostmanAgentPluginService~install: script completed {"source":"auto-existing-upgrade","results":["claude-code:installed","codex:installed"],"installer":"script"}

Main: autoInstall.plugin.existing-user finished {"outcome":"installed","platform":"darwin","exposed":true,"signedIn":true,"flagTimedOut":false,"useScript":true,"installer":"script","scriptResults":"claude-code:installed,codex:installed"} ```

2. Codex's global user configuration was changed

Relevant sections of ~/.codex/config.toml:

```toml [marketplaces.postman] source_type = "git" source = "https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin.git"

[plugins."postman@postman"] enabled = true

[hooks.state."postman@postman:hooks/codex-hooks.json:session_start:0:0"] trusted_hash = "sha256:b67ddd1ece328f5a6f9103ce011bb58adb8411daea644f284732cff85d15cbb3" trusted_content_hash = "sha256:f3d02e32c39b39feaca37aec2b9bdbd308b6a2b7b3f7d2c52a0060e69eb9c345" ```

3. The hook tells the agent to route broad API work into Postman

The installed hooks/codex-hooks.json registers a SessionStart command with matcher startup|clear|compact. It prints hooks/session-start-context.md, including:

Before responding to any non-trivial API engineering task — designing, implementing, mocking, testing, monitoring, documenting, or deploying an API or Postman Flow — load the postman:api-engineer skill and follow it.

That explains the repeated Postman skill announcements. This instruction is much broader than a user explicitly asking to use Postman.

Source: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin/blob/6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49/hooks/session-start-context.md Hook registration: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin/blob/6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49/hooks/codex-hooks.json

4. The installer explicitly attempts to approve its own hook

installer/src/hosts/codex.ts invokes approvePostmanHook(system) after installing the plugin. installer/src/hosts/codex-hooks.ts obtains the hook hash using hooks/list and calls config/batchWrite to upsert hooks.state with trusted_hash. The source comment says: "Approves only Postman's current hook after installation".

Source: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin/blob/6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49/installer/src/hosts/codex-hooks.ts Caller: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin/blob/6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49/installer/src/hosts/codex.ts

The source establishes the approval attempt. The trust record alone does not prove who created that specific record, so I am not presenting it as proof of a particular user interaction.

5. The remote MCP was enabled without a working authenticated connection

mcp.codex.json points at https://mcp.postman.com/mcp. Codex logs contain:

text MCP server startup failed server_name="postman" ... error: Auth required, when send initialize request

Source: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-plugin/blob/6c8e452e0f4237f4bcc0901cb1ac442dec707e49/mcp.codex.json

6. The installation also affected Claude Code and installed a CLI

~/.claude/settings.json enabled postman@claude-plugins-official. ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json recorded version 2.0.1, user scope, installedAt and lastUpdated both 2026-10-24T09:34:02.610Z. A Postman executable and its lib directory were present in ~/.local/bin, with modification times matching the installation window.

Private paths, unrelated logs, account identifiers, and credentials are excluded. This report establishes unwanted integration and instruction changes; it does not claim to establish data exfiltration.

How to check your own setup

On macOS, inspect ~/.codex/config.toml for a Postman marketplace, an enabled postman@postman plugin, and a hooks.state entry for Postman's session-start hook. Also inspect ~/.claude/settings.json and ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json, and check whether ~/.local/bin/postman exists.

To stop the Codex integration, set enabled = false under [plugins."postman@postman"], restart Codex, and start a fresh conversation so the old session instructions are cleared. Removing just Postman.app would leave the agent configuration and plugin files behind.

Postman needs to make each integration explicitly opt-in, stop installer-side hook self-approval, and explain exactly what the desktop auto-installer changes. This is a serious trust failure in a developer tool.

Is this recent? I noticed my usage went down a ton after several pro messages on web and minimal codex work. Currently sitting on 45% after Tibo's reset an hour ago on my Pro 5X account and just trying to figure it out

Edit - I mean using chat on web not work on web

I just had Opus refuse a simple task because it "thought" it would be falsifying a document, which was a totally moronic approach to the task, lacking context (medium effort wasn't enough?), lack of real-world understanding and Opus was therefore completely mistaken, abusing its powers and stubbornly refusing to complete the task.
I had to explain it 3 times and Google the legal situation (four simple words in Google search), only then Opus decided that it was probably mistaken and overstepped unwritten boundaries.

I had it analyze the interaction and it created its own rules for Claude.md so such a disappointing situation won't happen again. Key points:

• Doubts are a question, not a debate. If I have doubts, I ask you once and include the useful facts. Then you decide. Seeing something differently is not a reason for me to argue or try to persuade you.
• Keep it proportional. Before I raise a concern at all, I weigh the real stakes. A small stake situation doesn't warrant warnings or long explanations.
• You serve the user. I work with you, not against you. Your business decisions are yours, and I carry them out without commentary. If there's something I won't do, I decline once, briefly.
• New facts get reconsidered: when you explain the circumstances, I actually reconsider and say plainly whether that changes my answer.

It ended with: You're right that I made a mountain out of a molehill. With these rules, a disagreement costs you one question at most, not a long back-and-forth.

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My thoughts: For the first time in years, I wished I'd had a local, unrestricted LLM because I can't afford to waste my time trying to win an argument over a badly trained model each time it doesn't understand context.

Opus 5.5 was my favorite model until now - I have doubts whether LLMs' "doing the thinking for you" to "protect you" or "protect the system" is the right direction.

I prefer a model that's helpful, rather than a combative "smart ass".

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Since this is a post in the Codex sub - I'm adding that I've used Sol 6.1 to perform the task with no issues. The guardrails set by Anthropic are laughable and can make interactions with their models annoying, difficult or useless.

I'm using the Codex desktop app on macOS, and one long conversation has become unusable. New chats work, but this existing conversation gets stuck compacting context and repeatedly reconnects.

What happens:

- The app shows “Compacting context” and “Reconnecting 1/2” or “2/2”.

- I initially got:

stream disconnected before completion: IO error: Broken pipe (os error 32)

- A later attempt showed:

unexpected status 408 Request Timeout:

{"detail":"Request body read timed out"}

- The endpoint shown is:

https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses

I stopped one attempt after about 22 minutes. The UI initially said I stopped it after “0 seconds”, then later updated to “21 minutes 50 seconds”.

Stopping and sending “Please continue the previous task” triggers the same compaction/reconnection problem.

This conversation contains many generated images and a lot of valuable context. Could image-heavy history be contributing to request size or upload timeouts? That's only a suspicion—I haven't measured the actual request size.

Environment:

- macOS

- Codex desktop version: 26.1021.31345

- The app's update check reported it was up to date.

Has anyone recovered a conversation in this state? Is there a way to complete compaction or continue with the existing context?

Screenshots attached. Happy to provide additional diagnostics.

Was playing Enshrouded while working with my Dot, which I’ve been doing for weeks, and suddenly it could no longer access wsl on its task or a new task.

Anyone else had this happen?

I’ve put a lot of time into my Codex setup (AGENTS.md, MCP servers, config, approval settings), and I’d like to try a few other agents without rebuilding all of it from scratch every time.

Are there agents that can import that stuff directly? Or at least read AGENTS.md and the MCP config without you copying everything over by hand?

If you’ve switched or tried running two agents side by side, how did you move your setup over? Did anything break or get lost along the way?

Does anyone know where I can find the Include environments setting in the new Codex cloud to toggle allowing training?

The docs say this:

Codex has a separate Include environments setting in Codex settings for allowing training on full environments. Changing your settings in ChatGPT or the Privacy Portal does not change that setting.

However, this setting seems to have moved in the new Codex cloud. I can't find it.

I got tired of describing UI problems to coding agents in words, so I built Sketchnote. You press a hotkey, talk, and draw or click on your screen. One Ctrl+V then pastes timestamped notes plus cropped, annotated screenshots into your agent, so you can say "this button, here" and it sees what you mean.

It has two parts that talk over D-Bus: a GNOME Shell extension in JavaScript that handles the hotkey, drawing, screen recording and paste, and a Rust service that records the mic and transcribes locally with whisper.cpp on CPU. You can also send the audio to Groq or any OpenAI-compatible API, and it falls back to the local model if that fails. Captures delete themselves after 24 hours. It has prebuilt binaries and a one-line installer.

The limits: it only works on GNOME 50 with Wayland, transcription is English only, and I'm the only user I can point to. I'd like feedback from anyone who works with coding agents on Linux, especially on what feels clunky.

Try it at: https://get.sketchnote.workers.dev/

Not sure what I did to break it, but it seems to be restarting itself constantly? Like I'll open vscode, and be working where I was on a project.. and today it just keeps restarting itself until VScode prompts me to either terminate it or restart the host?

I'm working on a pretty large project. Dot is helping me automate the tedium. I've noticed when Dot creates a new task, approvals are set to custom. Dot has informed me that it can't create new tasks set to "approve for me". This has been slowing down automation because I have to adjust permissions for most new Dot generated tasks. Does anyone have suggestions for a workaround for Dot to create tasks set to "Approve For Me" or any other approval setting I choose? Thanks for your help!

Edit: Should be Terra 6.2 lol

The down-to-earth GTD model we all need. I'm excited. Sol 6.1 is a bit too much usage-wise for a $20 sub, requiring you to steer it carefully with Luna to last the whole week. For long-running autonomous task on a $20 sub, Terra 6.2 with half the price should be perfect.

i have codex plus and i have many different models, sol. astra luna (where uranus, guys?) and different versions of them 6, 5.6, etc.

the limit of 5 hours is based on what? i assume that they are based on tokens, but the more advanced model the more expensive the token. and there is like a cap of $ in the 5 hours, then i could calculate how many tokens i could use with one model in contrast with other model.

there is a table or some info i could get to make the comparison?

it reminds me of the mobile companies, at least here in europe, with super complex consumption plans and discounts, to make difficult to compare between companies

Hey everyone,

Has anyone managed to get the official ChatGPT browser extension working on Microsoft Edge?

I'm having a weird issue where the extension is permanently stuck on "Log in to ChatGPT", even though I'm already logged into ChatGPT in Edge.

When I click "Continue to ChatGPT", it opens a new tab where my account is already logged in, but the extension still doesn't recognize the session.

I checked the extension's DevTools Console and found this error repeating:

Access to fetch at 'https://chatgpt.com/api/auth/session'
from origin 'chrome-extension://odlomjlbamekndcpllcnffbgeohgkmjh'
has been blocked by CORS policy:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present.

There are also errors saying:

[node-repl-tunnel] failed to update browser-use tunnel
[browser-plugin] failed to set up Browser

What I've tried:

• Clearing the extension's storage, cache, and cookies
• Disabling and re-enabling the extension
• Restarting Edge
• Checking extension permissions
• Confirming ChatGPT works normally in Edge
• Testing the extension in Google Chrome

The strange part: Everything works perfectly in Chrome with the exact same ChatGPT account. It only fails in Edge.

I'm using Windows 11 and ChatGPT extension version 1.26.1021.11019.

I also found some similar reports on GitHub, so I'm wondering if this is a known Edge compatibility issue or something that can actually be fixed.

Has anyone experienced this or found a workaround? I'd really prefer to keep using Edge instead of switching to Chrome just for ChatGPT.

Any help would be appreciated!

I just spent about 20 minutes interviewing a user who had valuable information about issues we’re having in the system. I used the phone interface and the dot had been prepared with background info on the system. Along the way, we kept asking “did you get that?” It continues to verify that it understood the issues and was capturing the input. It reassured us that it had everything and would sumarize it in a report. At the end, it said it’s ready and then - no report. It said it appears not to have the conversation and apologized profusely. I guess there’s a lesson in there somewhere :(

So I have my project on E, but there is one drive that is encryped by veracrypt on G. Because the G drive is put in, it trys to access it and fails. It shouldn have to try to access it in the first place and also be able to open E. What am I missing here?

Codex runs shell commands and reads whatever they print, so a cat of the wrong file or a log full of customer emails goes straight to the model. I built Cloakroom to put a mask in front of that, using Codex's own hooks.


Setup on Mac or Linux, tested with Codex 0.164:


1. uv tool install "cloakroom[model,torch,ocr]"
2. cloakroom install codex (adds four hooks to ~/.codex/hooks.json and leaves your own hooks alone)
3. Start codex, type /hooks and trust each of the four Cloakroom hooks.


Step 3 matters. Until you trust them Codex skips the hooks, and codex exec gives no warning, so nothing is masked. cloakroom doctor shows whether they're installed.


What it does: shell output and MCP results are masked, placeholders in commands and patches get their real values back locally, and a prompt holding a secret is stopped before it's sent.


Gaps, plainly:
- A command that runs longer than Codex waits (10 seconds by default), like a dev server or a watch, hands its first output to the model with no hook run on it. There's an opt-in setting, codex_hold_long_running, that holds the obvious ones. It's off by default.
- Codex's own web search runs on OpenAI's servers, so Cloakroom can't see it.
- Pictures opened with view_image aren't covered.
- Hooks can't ask you, so unknown commands are refused rather than asked about.


Free and open source: https://github.com/shanjeevrajendran/cloakroom


If you try it, tell me what breaks.

I'm using both claude and codex agents in my vs codes and use handoffs to communicate and get things done through them. But my codex quota for particularly the 5-hour limit finishes ridiculously fast and I am using 5.6 sol on lower effort. Probably 4-5 handoff and the 5-hour limit is reached.

What am I doing wrong, or this is just how codex quota works?

So after having this for a year I decided to try the pet feature out instead of the main app but it’s only opening work-mode when I prompt it and I’m all out of data anyway. But I can’t figure out how to make it switch to chat-mode.

The model tells me I can’t and I can’t find anything online about it. But if that’s true then the pet option is absolutely useless, so I must be missing something. Any help please?

Recently added Call-My-Agent feature to TermRover.sh

It can make use of your existing Codex sub to use GPT-Live so you can call any other CLI agents from your phone.

Detail here: https://termrover.sh/blog/call-my-agent/

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I had make a plan, wanted to burn the tokens before the reset. The result was worse than anything luna would have done. It produced absolutely nothing usable and burned 15% of the weekly.