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Codex App bundles codex-cli 0.108.0-alpha.12 and fails on macOS, while standalone codex-cli 0.105.0 works on the same machine #13747

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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Codex App with bundled codex-cli 0.108.0-alpha.12

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

What platform is your computer?

macOS (Apple Silicon)

What issue are you seeing?

Codex App does not work correctly on my Mac, while the standalone Codex CLI works normally on the same machine.

I verified that the two are using different versions:

codex --version
codex-cli 0.105.0
/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex --version
codex-cli 0.108.0-alpha.12

The standalone CLI version 0.105.0 works, but the Codex App does not.
I already tried uninstalling, removing local caches/preferences, and reinstalling the app, but the problem remains.

This makes it look like the issue is related to the Codex App bundled version (0.108.0-alpha.12) rather than my local machine setup in general.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Install and use standalone Codex CLI version 0.105.0

Confirm that it works normally on this Mac

Launch Codex App on the same machine

Check the app-bundled Codex version:

/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex --version

It reports:

codex-cli 0.108.0-alpha.12

Use Codex App normally

The app fails / does not work correctly, while standalone codex-cli 0.105.0 continues to work on the same machine

Additional version check:

codex --version
codex-cli 0.105.0

At the moment I do not have a minimal code snippet, because this does not appear to be project-code-specific. It seems to be an app/runtime version regression on the same environment.

What is the expected behavior?

Codex App should work correctly on the same Mac where standalone codex-cli 0.105.0 works correctly.

More specifically, I would expect either:

the app-bundled version to work normally on this machine, or

the app and standalone CLI to behave consistently on the same environment

Additional information

The key point is that this does not look like a general install problem:

Standalone CLI: 0.105.0 → works

App bundled CLI: 0.108.0-alpha.12 → fails

I also already tried uninstalling and cleaning local app data, but that did not resolve the issue.

This looks like a version-specific regression in the Codex App bundled runtime rather than a general local configuration failure.

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