Rank, 14 days: 43 on the Codex sheet
13 people reported
All time, since Sep 16, including 4 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Old images resent each request
“In a long-running Codex Desktop task, image data retained after context compaction appears to cause very large, repeated upstream transfers.”
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/16247/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
Old inline images resent in every request after compaction. Historical images stay in chat history after compaction, so follow-up requests, even text-only ones, upload tens of MB again and slow each agent loop.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Codex desktop app
- Versions
- 0.162.0 to 26.1029.7803.0
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Related: Response stream disconnects mid-task
Not quite your bug?
- Image-heavy reconnect loop5 people
- Image-heavy threads disconnect2 people
- Image history overflows Bedrock2 people
Original reports9, newest first
- Images attached to a Codex chat are re-saved in full at every compactionOn GitHub#59719
- Historical images retained after automatic compaction cause repeated ~39.5 MB uploads during text-only follow-upsOn GitHub#59467
- Image-heavy chat history is inherited by subagents and makes every request very largeOn GitHub#58291
- Windows desktop: retained compacted images correlate with ~91 MiB repeated uploadsOn GitHub#57756
- Codex desktop may repeatedly upload historical images in long image-generation tasks, exceeding 1 GB of upload traffic per roundOn GitHub#55083
- Windows Desktop: retained inline images cause ~63 MB per HTTP request; synthetic WS 1009 boundary and safe old-thread recovery requestOn GitHub#54668
- Windows: image-heavy contexts repeatedly send 35–46 MiB model requests during coding; retries amplify GB-scale uploadsOn GitHub#54501
- Old Base64 images occupy 99.6% of chat history, making successive agent loops extremely slowOn GitHub#46761
- Repeated full-history requests can generate hundreds of GB of redundant client upload per monthOn GitHub#45971