Codex PATH seems to no longer match system PATH (can't run `node`)

[matthew-plusprogramming]

What version of the VS Code extension are you using?

0.4.35

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

So recently my codex agent stopped being able to run commands like node and such. After a little debugging my guess is that the PATH variable no longer matches my system's PATH and so it can't find my node executable and similar executables.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I just said Try running node and it cannot find the node executable. Although it works when I run on my terminal.

What is the expected behavior?

The agent should be able to run a command like node --version

Additional information

No response

[matthew-plusprogramming]

show_raw_agent_reasoning = true
model = "gpt-5-codex"
model_reasoning_effort = "high"

[history]
persistence = "none"

This is my config.toml

[matthew-plusprogramming]

This issue seems to have popped up within the last day or so (I'm assuming with the latest release)

[matthew-plusprogramming]

[matthew-plusprogramming]

I see my PATH var in codex is: /usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/var/folders/cm/v2bwd87d0j92gmwh2610vkhh0000gn/T/.tmpM2Y02l:/Users/matthewlin/.vscode/extensions/openai.chatgpt-0.4.35-darwin-arm64/bin/macos-aarch64

[github-actions]

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

• Can't seem to use ruby from rbenv #6218
• PATH env var not preserved when launching codex #5837
• Codex runs commands via bash --login and drops per-project env #4843

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[matthew-plusprogramming]

As a temporary workaround I have symlinked executables needed to systemwide PATH directories:

e.g.: sudo ln -s /Users/matthewlin/.nvm/versions/node/v22.14.0/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node

[mudkipdev]

Reproducing with CLI on macOS

[mudkipdev]

actually, I tested it on all versions from 0.52 to 0.55 and it seems to be working 50/50 at complete random on all of them..

[matthew-plusprogramming]

actually, I tested it on all versions from 0.52 to 0.55 and it seems to be working 50/50 at complete random on all of them..

Sorry what do you mean by this? Are you saying that you're having the same issue, or cannot reproduce?

[mudkipdev]

yes I am having the issue, but it works randomly, i can put a screen recording maybe

[zz-koji]

This is occurring with me also, started within the last few days.