Denied thread reads retry endlessly

“Codex Desktop on macOS repeatedly requests metadata for the same 65 cloud chats and receives -32003: thread access denied.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/11523/file
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Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 1 the week before, down from 4 a week at the mid-October peak.

Background thread reads denied and retried endlessly in desktop app. Background thread/read hydration requests for the same cloud chats fail with "thread access denied" and keep returning after a full restart.

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Where: Desktop app
Error text: -32003: thread access denied
error.message="thread access denied"Pasted in 2 reports
error.code=-32003Pasted in 2 reports
Versions: 26.1023.6123.0
Platforms: macOS, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow.

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Original reports3, newest first

Oct 28, 2026Codex Desktop: unbounded cloud-catalogue retry loops (denied reads, missing placements, dead worktree archives) correlate with machine-wide freezesOn GitHub#57740
Oct 13, 2026[macOS Desktop] Orbit catalog treats access-denied hydration as retryable and repeatedly reloads 65 chatsOn GitHub#53677
Oct 11, 2026[macOS Desktop] Persistent access-denied background hydration retries alongside high renderer CPU; restart does not resolveOn GitHub#53178