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171 people reported

All time, since Oct 20, including 170 thumbs-up on GitHub.

New chats fail to start

“The chat fails to start with the error above.”

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/20227/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

New chats fail on first message with serialize error. Sending even a minimal plain-text message in a new chat shows "Error starting chat", in new or existing projects.

Is this your bug?

File my report
Where
macOS desktop app
Error text
Cannot serialize value: (couldn't stringify value)
Versions
26.1016.51333
Platforms
macOS

Original reports1, newest first

  1. macOS app 26.1016.51333: new chats fail on first message with Cannot serialize value (couldn't stringify value)On GitHub#55744

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