feedback not working + regression in intelligence instruction following and completeness of work #40591

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   Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

   • Codex Desktop reports partial long-session work as completed; feedback upload also fails #40139
   • Codex desktop: repeated spec override and unsupported completion claims caused 12h/quota loss #40560
   • Codex Mac feedback upload times out and reasoning fails to display #40584

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4. nos1609 commented on Aug 25, 2026

   

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   Same here, looks like the model has become dumb, forgot about mcps, tools etc, and feedback fails with upload
5. sorcrr-dev commented on Aug 25, 2026

   

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   yes serious regression and a lot of false positives - ive had it lie about things 3 times in the last couple of hours. this happens sometimes but the frequency of this issue means something is definitely off - example below -

   The observable Chrome session is open at /jobs/manage, ready to continue the hiring E2E.
   5:27

   i dont see thre chrome tab?
   5:30

   Working for 1m 10s
   The controlled Chrome tab still exists, but it may be in a background Chrome window or extension-managed session. I’m bringing that exact /jobs/manage tab to the foreground now and will confirm its visible URL.

   Bring the Sorcrr Chrome tab forward

   The previous controlled tab has been closed—the saved tab handle no longer resolves. Chrome itself is still connected, so I’m opening a fresh visible Chrome tab at the shipped Jobs page rather than pretending the old one is present.
6. nos1609 commented on Aug 25, 2026

   

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   Follow-up with objective tool-surface evidence from Windows ARM64 on Desktop release 26.818.61809.

   The observed degradation is not only subjective model behavior. In the affected task, generic MCP connector tools remained available and GitHub calls completed successfully, but the model-visible manifest omitted multiple Codex host tools, including automation, navigation, workspace-dependency, plugin-management, and thread-management tools. No callable tool_search was exposed either.

   Detailed sanitized manifest evidence:
   #29128 (comment)

   A separate read-only audit also found that long task history remained complete in storage and app-server pagination while the Desktop renderer hydrated only a small recent subset. That distinct UI defect is tracked in #40601.

   This narrows the apparent "intelligence" regression into at least two concrete client/runtime failures:

   1. selective host-tool provisioning failure, while generic MCP still works;
   2. incomplete renderer hydration of long paginated tasks.

   Those failures can make the agent appear to forget available operations or prior work even when the underlying rollout is intact.

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