OpenAI experienced a minor incident on September 13, 2026 affecting Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:26 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
- identified Sep 13, 2026, 09:32 AM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified an upstream GitHub service disruption affecting review publication and pull request creation in Codex. Follow GitHub’s status page "GitHub’s status page": https://www.githubstatus.com/ for updates. We expect these workflows to recover as GitHub restores service. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
- identified Sep 13, 2026, 09:35 AM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified an upstream GitHub service disruption affecting review publication and pull request creation in Codex. Follow GitHub’s status page "GitHub’s status page": https://www.githubstatus.com/ for updates. We expect these workflows to recover as GitHub restores its services. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
- resolved Sep 13, 2026, 09:53 AM UTC
Status: Resolved Github has applied the mitigation and we are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)
- monitoring Sep 13, 2026, 09:55 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring Github have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)
- resolved Sep 13, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)