Code-comment block not rendering properly

[hiradary]

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

Version 26.429.30905 (2345)

What subscription do you have?

Pro ($100/m)

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

The code comment block doesn't render sometimes:

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019de4fe-7d30-7790-839d-0cce571699e5

What is the expected behavior?

It should actually render the code comment block

Additional information

No response

[notkadez]

I hit this too and was able to narrow down one concrete parse failure.

The renderer appears to use Markdown directive syntax for ::code-comment{...}. JSON-style escaped quotes inside a quoted attribute make the directive fail to parse, so it renders as raw text.

Parses:

::code-comment{title="[P2] Valid directive" body="This body includes "quoted text" and parses correctly." file="/tmp/example.ts" start=1 priority=2 confidence=0.8}

Does not parse:

::code-comment{title="[P2] Invalid directive" body="This body includes \"quoted text\" and renders as raw text." file="/tmp/example.ts" start=1 priority=2 confidence=0.8}

I verified locally that body="has \"quoted\" text" produces no directive node, while body="has "quoted" text" and body='has "quoted" text' parse.

I also checked the packaged Codex.app bundle. The app context explicitly instructs the model to emit this directive:

/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar
  /.vite/build/worker.js
  /.vite/build/workspace-root-drop-handler-B4gQVO2J.js

Both include:

Use the ::code-comment{...} directive to emit inline code review findings

The parser/renderer side is separate in:

/webview/assets/app-server-manager-signals-DBUY-BE0.js

That file defines code-comment as a supported directive and maps parsed directive attributes into UI props.

Because Codex.app asks the model to produce this plaintext directive format, this seems hard to solve with prompting alone. The parser/renderer probably needs to tolerate JSON-style escaped quotes, or the finding transport needs to avoid embedding structured data in Markdown directive attributes.