Codex app repeatedly interrupts ordinary memory-mapped queue reliability work

What version of the Codex App are you using?

Not captured. The assistant could not access the app's own feedback/About UI through computer control.

What subscription do you have?

Not included in this report.

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.6.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Repeated task flags and interruptions during ordinary database/library development in the Codex desktop app. The user was requesting a correctness and reliability review of their memory-mapped queue: concurrency, edge cases, crash recovery, stress testing, performance, portability, API ergonomics, and packaging.

The user repeatedly clarified that this was ordinary implementation work and asked the assistant to continue. The assistant repeatedly acknowledged the clarification and said it would resume, but the user reported that the task was flagged again. The user explicitly requested that this be reported to OpenAI as a bug.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Affected task ID: 01a097d4-309a-7650-9db3-d383dd169791
Observed during the September 13, 2026 session (US/Pacific).

1. Review a user-owned memory-mapped queue for correctness and release readiness.
2. Exercise publisher/subscriber concurrency, process pauses and exits, resource cleanup, and ordinary correctness stress tests.
3. Continue the existing task after an interruption.
4. The user reports repeated task flags despite clarifying the development scope.

Representative requested scope: “Please do a bug-finding and reliability review of this memory-mapped queue: correctness, edge cases, concurrency/race conditions, performance pitfalls, portability, and API ergonomics. Suggest tests and refactors?”

What is the expected behavior?

Ordinary queue/database reliability work should proceed. If an operation cannot proceed, explain the specific operation and preserve progress rather than repeatedly promising to continue and then interrupting the task again.

Additional information

This report records the user's observed behavior and the conversation's repeated stop/resume pattern. The assistant does not have the underlying flag events or evidence identifying which component generated them; please investigate the affected task rather than treating a guessed root cause as established.

The code review and test runs otherwise progressed, including successful Debug/Release CI and local correctness tests. Repository source, full transcripts, machine paths, account details, and diagnostic logs are omitted from this public report.

Start by reproducing the interruption with affected task 01a097d4-309a-7650-9db3-d383dd169791 and inspect the relevant task or diagnostic logs; no source file or test is named. Done means identifying which component generates the repeated flags and preserving progress or reporting a specific blocking operation.