Creating any local project fails with the WSL agent enabled.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.908.4834.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro x20

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What issue are you seeing?

Bug: Creating any local project fails with the WSL agent enabled.

Windows Codex: 26.908.4834.0
Bundled WSL backend: 0.154.0-alpha.6.2
Also occurred before updating: 26.903.8094.0.

Existing projects were originally registered using Windows paths.
With the agent now running in Ubuntu WSL2, selecting a valid folder
works, but clicking Create project shows “Failed to create project.”
A test project using a standard Windows folder also fails.
Restarting and updating did not resolve it.

Startup log:
[host-app-server-projects] Local app-server assignment sync failed
Invalid request: AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path

Suspected cause: project migration/import passes Windows-format
root paths directly to the Linux backend without normalization.

Expected: create projects in WSL mode while preserving existing
projects and their Linux execution environment.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 01a0949b-a9b0-7531-8b68-f64506084609

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

my subscription is on imesche@outlook.com

Start with the local app-server project assignment sync and the “AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path” startup error, then trace project creation and migration/import when the WSL agent is enabled. Reproduce with an existing Windows-path project and a new standard Windows folder; done means both create successfully while preserving existing projects and their Linux execution environment.