Stuck awaiting approval, no controls

“The sidebar displays the approval badge, but the task view has no visible approval controls and no visible message composer.”

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/15125/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

Growing. 1 report in the last 7 days and none the week before.

Task stuck awaiting approval with no approval controls or composer. Sidebar and transcript show "Waiting for your answer" or "Awaiting approval", but no approve buttons, message composer or Stop button are visible.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: macOS desktop app
Versions: 0.155.0
Platforms: macOS
How bad: Stops work: a core feature can't be used. Most reports say it blocks them completely.

Part of: Desktop approval state gets stuck3 bugs

Stale awaiting approval badge2 people
Stuck approval blocks Stop2 people

Not quite your bug?

Computer Use approval prompt missing4 people
Guardian checkpoint approval failure2 people

Original reports3, newest first

Nov 7, 2026Codex desktop chat disappears during desktop actions while multiple tasks are runningOn GitHub#60156
Oct 18, 2026[macOS] Work sessions permanently stuck on "Awaiting approval" with no accessible composer or approval controlsOn GitHub#55123
Sep 28, 2026[macOS Desktop 26.917.71314] Thread stuck waitingOnApproval with approval controls and composer missingOn GitHub#48930