Codex Mac app shows persistent blurred overlay on Skills / Plugins screen on Intel Mac #20055

Title: Codex Mac app shows persistent blurred overlay on Skills / Plugins screen on Intel Mac

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

Codex 26.422.62136

What subscription do you have?

Unknown

What platform is your computer?

macOS 15.7.5 on Intel Mac

What issue are you seeing?

Summary

The Codex Mac app renders a persistent blurred / translucent overlay across the Skills / Plugins screen, obscuring the content and making the surface effectively unusable.

The issue persists after resetting local UI state and clearing Electron caches.

Actual behavior

When opening the Skills / Plugins surface, the list area appears behind a large blurred overlay. Text and icons are partially visible but remain obscured and unusable.

Expected behavior

The Skills / Plugins screen should render normally, with no persistent blurred overlay or blocked content.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Open Codex on an Intel Mac running macOS 15.7.5.
2. Open the Skills / Plugins screen.
3. Observe that the list renders behind a persistent blurred overlay.

What I already tried

None of these fixed it:

• Quit and relaunch Codex
• Reset persisted Codex UI state in ~/.codex/.codex-global-state.json
• Clear Electron caches under ~/Library/Application Support/Codex/
• Relaunch after state reset and cache purge

Additional information

Local investigation strongly suggests this is an app-side rendering bug, not a missing entitlement, payment problem, or backend failure.

What was verified locally:

• Built-in skills exist under ~/.codex/skills/.system/
• Codex app logs show requests for skills/list
• Codex app logs also show plugin-related requests succeeding
• No local evidence of account gating or disabled access

Environment details:

• App bundle identifier: com.openai.codex
• App bundle version: 26.422.62136
• macOS: 15.7.5
• CPU architecture: Intel / x86_64

This appears similar to other publicly reported Codex Mac blur / overlay rendering bugs on Intel Macs, but this case specifically affects the Skills / Plugins screen.