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July 30 ChatGPT 5.6 bug #36276

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@shaowuz

What happened?

I was using the Codex VS Code extension with GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to work on a mathematical LaTeX project.

After Codex had been reasoning for several minutes, VS Code became unresponsive. I quit and reopened VS Code. After reopening it:

  • My glaplace.tex file is deleted.
  • The request failed with usage_limit_exceeded.
  • My remaining usage unexpectedly drop from 70% to 0% in miliseconds.
  • My 100$ student credits suddenly dropped to 49$

The VS Code Codex Output log shows that the remote context-compaction stream disconnected. At approximately the same time, filesystem directory reads failed with No such file or directory.

openai-support-log-2026-07-30-2128-PDT.txt

Relevant logs

2026-07-30 21:28:12.704 [error] Request failed error={"code":-32603,"message":"No such file or directory (os error 2)"} method=fs/readDirectory source=filesystem

2026-07-30 21:28:12.790 [warning] [CodexMcpConnection] cli: message="codex_core::responses_retry: remote compaction v2 stream failed; retrying request after delay turn_id=019fb66e-09cc-78b0-b942-d6e8387d2743 retries=1 max_retries=2 compact_error=stream disconnected before completion: failed to send websocket request: Connection closed normally"

2026-07-30 21:28:16.700 [error] Request failed error={"code":-32603,"message":"No such file or directory (os error 2)"} method=fs/readDirectory source=filesystem

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