Plugins briefly appear on launch, then disappear after Codex finishes loading #16133

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.325.21211 (build 1255)

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Codex desktop briefly shows new features (plugins) right when the app launches, then they disappear a moment later after the app fully loads.

I already tried all of the following and the behavior did not change:

• updated Codex CLI from 0.116.0 to 0.117.0
• cleared app caches
• fully reset ~/Library/Application Support/Codex
• fully reset ~/.codex

This seems unlikely to be a local cache/state issue at this point. It looks more like account-side feature gating / remote config
overriding the initial UI, or a desktop app bug tied to account state.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 031a56ce-b5c3-403c-8eee-df29257861e5

1. Open Codex desktop
2. Observe that new features briefly appear during startup
3. Wait a moment for the app to finish loading
4. The features disappear

This happens consistently across restarts, including after full local state resets.

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response