Data Analytics 0.2.10 uses bare node; Node is absent from PATH, although ChatGPT bundles a working Node runtime.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.153.4

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol

What platform is your computer?

macOS 15 - Darwin 21.6.0 x86_64 i386

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

macos zsh shell

Codex doctor report

What issue are you seeing?

Upon starting codex in the macos shell:

⚠ MCP client for dataAnalyticsWidgets failed to start: MCP startup failed: No such file or directory (os error 2)

• You have 1 usage limit reset available. Run /usage to use one.

⚠ MCP startup incomplete (failed: dataAnalyticsWidgets)

/mcp

🔌 MCP Tools

• codex_apps: connected (138 tools)
• computer-use: disabled (0 tools)
• cua_repl: connected (2 tools)
• dataAnalyticsWidgets: failed (0 tools)
• node_repl: connected (4 tools)
• openaiDeveloperDocs: connected (5 tools)

Sol analysis:

I found the specific failure:

• Its MCP configuration (/Users/username/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-curated-remote/data-analytics/0.2.10-13ceeea1f599/.mcp.json:3) launches node ./mcp/server.cjs --stdio.
• Your shell currently has no node executable in PATH.
• When I launched it using the Node runtime bundled inside ChatGPT, the MCP server initialized successfully.

So this is best characterized as a first-party plugin runtime/packaging problem, not general Codex corruption.

Auth: Unsupported is harmless here. It means this local stdio MCP server does not use MCP OAuth; it is not reporting a failed login.

My recommendation:

• If you don’t use Data Analytics: safely ignore it, or open /plugins and disable/uninstall Data Analytics to remove the warning.
• If you want Data Analytics charts, tables, and reports: update or reinstall the plugin and restart Codex. If it still fails, making node available in PATH is a workaround.
• This is also reasonable to report as an OpenAI bug: “Data Analytics 0.2.10 uses bare node; Node is absent from PATH, although ChatGPT bundles a working Node runtime.”

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Launch codex in the shell.

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response

Start with the cached plugin configuration at /Users/username/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-curated-remote/data-analytics/0.2.10-13ceeea1f599/.mcp.json and its server.cjs entry point. Reproduce by launching Codex from the macOS shell, then verify that dataAnalyticsWidgets starts and exposes its MCP tools without requiring an unavailable bare node executable.