Text paste fails

“Hi, I just update to codex cli v0.158.0 and I cannot paste any text into the terminal, it keeps reporting "clipboard text is unavailable".”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/11492/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Quiet. No reports and thumbs-up in the last two weeks, down from 2 a week at the early-October peak. A workaround is known.

Text paste fails with image clipboard error in CLI. Ctrl+V, Shift+Insert or right-click Paste of plain text shows an image-paste error in MobaXterm SSH sessions and Windows classic console.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: CLI prompt
Error text: Failed to paste image: no image on clipboard: The clipboard contents were not available in the requested format or the clipboard is empty.
Versions: 0.158.0 to 0.162.1
Platforms: Linux, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it used to work.

Part of: CLI copy and paste broken7 bugs

Right-click paste fails in TUI7 people
Cmd+C copy broken on macOS84 people
Cannot copy terminal text39 people
Middle-click paste of selection broken7 people
Middle-click paste inserts nothing9 people
Inconsistent TUI copy/paste shortcuts10 people

Original reports3, newest first

Oct 11, 2026MobaXterm SSH: text paste triggers image clipboard error; --no-alt-screen fixes it (CLI 0.162.1)On GitHub#53220
Oct 5, 2026Windows classic console: Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert fail to paste text with “no image on clipboard” errorOn GitHub#51040
Sep 29, 2026Unable to copy and paste content into Codex CLI v0.158.0On GitHub#49185