openai / openai/codex

Secure browser auth is unavailable on Chrome sign-in forms

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Description

Summary

The Codex Chrome extension is connected, but secure browserAuth and secure form elicitation are not advertised on an app sign-in form.

Expected behavior

Codex should expose secure auth/form capabilities so a local smoke account can authenticate without direct credential entry.

Actual behavior

The sign-in page exposes only pageAssets and cdp. No credentials were entered or accessed.

Impact

This blocks a synthetic production-smoke workflow. No customer or family data has been changed.

Environment
  • Codex Desktop on Windows, updated and restarted
  • Chrome connected through the official extension
  • Feedback ID: 01a07d1e-d529-7121-82bc-c4e2e311571f
Reproduction
  1. Start a local Codex task with @Chrome.
  2. Open an application sign-in form.
  3. Inspect the advertised capabilities without entering credentials.
  4. Observe that secure browser auth and secure form elicitation are absent.

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with Codex Desktop on Windows, the official Chrome extension, and a local task using @Chrome; inspect the capabilities advertised on an application sign-in form. Done means secure browserAuth and secure form elicitation are advertised while no credentials are entered or accessed.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
authentication, desktop, security
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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