OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 18, 2026 affecting CLI and Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
CLICodex in ChatGPT Desktop
Update timeline
- identified Jul 18, 2026, 08:05 AM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified an issue causing some users to receive access-denied errors when using the Codex desktop app and CLI. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Jul 18, 2026, 08:31 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
- resolved Jul 18, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components CLI (Operational) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)