Desktop Add to task freeze can trigger duplicate submissions after task acceptance

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start with the official ChatGPT conversation reference / Add to task flow and compare the Desktop handoff and local conversation-rendering path with the CLI behavior. Review related issues #32033, #32117, and #32846, then reproduce the intermittent freeze and verify that an accepted task remains identifiable, progress remains accessible, and repeat submission is prevented.

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Description

app bug session

I am filing this as a visibility and user-impact follow-up to #32033, not as a claim of a separate root cause. Please link or close it as a duplicate if #32033 remains the preferred canonical tracker.

Summary

When I use the official ChatGPT conversation reference / Add to task flow, the Codex Desktop UI can freeze immediately after submission even though the task has already been accepted and continues running remotely.

User impact
  • The conversation pane shows no response or trace.
  • The composer becomes unusable, while the Pet still indicates that the task is active.
  • Remote control/view shows that the task continues executing normally.
  • Without a durable task-accepted acknowledgement, I previously resubmitted the same task multiple times.
  • This caused duplicate tasks, wasted Team usage/quota and time, and a risk of multiple agents modifying the same workspace concurrently.

The issue is intermittent and appears specific to the Desktop ChatGPT conversation handoff/local conversation-rendering path. I have not observed the same failure mode in the CLI.

Expected behavior

The app should immediately expose a durable task identifier and acceptance state, continue showing task progress if the renderer fails, warn about repeated submission, and allow the UI to reattach to the already-running task without terminating it.

Environment
  • Codex App version: 1.2.35 (build 1.2.35)
  • macOS version: 26.5.2
  • Architecture: arm64
  • Subscription: Team
  • Approximate occurrence date: 2026-07-18

Related issues: #32033, #32117, and #32846.

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