V6 brings ChatGPT Web models into Codex's model and Effort selectors, optional Pro usage tracking, Bigger Context, and control over saved or temporary browser chats. Version 6.1.13 includes the fixes accumulated throughout V6, with new repairs for long tasks, model selection, and launcher upgrades.
Changes in 6.1.13
- Workspace recovery after compaction. Continuations can recover the current working directory when native Codex compaction moves the environment message ahead of retained instructions. Midnight date updates also preserve the verified workspace under managed permissions. Recovery checks the current native task and its permissions (#861).
- Compaction handoff and sleep. Corrects the token format rejected by the native connector when submitting a context summary. The summary token remains restricted to that one operation. Compaction's inactivity timer now excludes time when the process was suspended, while an awake task with no progress still times out (#863).
- GPT-5.6 Pro selection. Accepts the updated picker header containing both “5.6 Sol” and “5.6 Pro” when the version and selected effort agree. Conflicting selections still stop the send, and Pro usage accounting recognizes the updated header (#875).
- Browser smoke test. Selects the intended model before reading its effort range, so a fresh chat's default model menu without a slider no longer blocks setup. Free accounts retain their separate path. Waiting for the model control or slider responds to cancellation (#876).
- Plugin permissions and naming. Permission cards get a specific explanation pointing to the plugin's Permissions → Allow all actions setting. Unanswered requests remain untouched when a turn stops. Task and compaction instructions use the configured plugin name instead of referring to a different connector.
- Upgrade settings and downgrade prevention. An older launcher cannot replace a newer installed runtime. Upgrades preserve an explicitly enabled automatic one-time approval setting; they do not enable it by default or in Zero Risk (#867, #881).
- Oversized messages and diagnostics. Explicit ChatGPT size rejections are reported as
context_length_exceeded. Retrying an identical rejected compaction no longer uploads all its parts again. Failed browser captures are retained for up to three days within a 100 MB budget, with active captures protected. Logs include the final selected model/effort and payload size (#874). - Build maintenance. Updates Vite to 6.4.4 to address the dependency advisories and enables certificate-free macOS signing in pull-request verification while retaining signature checks (#879, #882).
The original account-side size rejection in #874 was not reproduced in matching Plus tests; this release improves its handling and diagnostics without claiming a universal accepted context limit. The disappearing ChatGPT conversation in #865 and the Windows tunnel-client installation error in #870 still need the requested reporter evidence. ChatGPT account limits and safety refusals still apply.
V6 features and earlier fixes
- Models and effort. GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 choices remain separate, with account-supported reasoning levels in Codex. Free accounts expose Luna/Think. Model selection handles ChatGPT's updated picker, slow loading, translated controls, and locked Pro options while checking the selected model before sending.
- Bigger Context. Large tasks use one, two, or six messages. GPT-6 Sol supports up to 120,000 tokens on Plus and 240,000 on Pro at supported reasoning levels; Instant keeps its standard context. Luna/Think support is experimental. Earlier patches fixed collapsed-message expansion, upload processing, and Markdown parsing stalls, and account for completed upload parts when ChatGPT removes older messages from the page.
- Saved-chat reliability. Since 6.1.11, new setups use saved chats and Verify runtime checks the selected chat mode. Existing off settings are preserved. Version 6.1.12 fixed uploads targeting hidden composers and early one-time approvals while a request was still streaming. Earlier fixes cover the
isDestroyedcleanup crash, missing workspace lists after Codex restarts, and recovery from explicitly registered additionalCODEX_HOMEdirectories. - Chat controls and suggestions. Optional New browser chat for each turn rebuilds the same task in a fresh conversation. Optional next-message suggestions use GPT-6 Sol Medium when the context fits. Saved chats and fresh chats are independent settings; saved chats remain in normal ChatGPT history and follow account personalization settings.
- Pro usage estimates. The Limits tab tracks the launcher's own submissions for supported Pro plans, with separate model allowances and a warning from 75%. These are local estimates; messages sent elsewhere and OpenAI's actual remaining quota are not included.
- Long tasks and tools. Improved compaction, delegated instructions, Page context, date updates, workspace recovery, and cancellation. Fixed overlapping connector handshakes interrupting another task's tool call. Accepted work survives a disconnected response stream, and helper replacement cannot silently resubmit a running task through the fresh-message path.
- Replies and Activity. Supports both ChatGPT layouts, preserves code, links, formulas, and plan markers, and keeps changing previews and hidden follow-up labels out of answers. Activity distinguishes preparation, generation, tool execution, and approval waits. Safe logs include captured page state without message contents.
- Sign-in, startup, and updates. Improved passkey sign-in, account switching, logout, browser crash recovery, and startup while signed out. Preserves valid configuration and a manually disconnected bridge. Includes system HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy support, Windows-trusted certificates, and improved update recovery.
- Desktop packages. Native Linux x64/ARM64 packages join Windows and both macOS architectures. Earlier V6 updates improved window restoration, browser sizing and system theme handling, plugin naming, and setup diagnostics.
Thanks to @nofihq for the focused signing, upgrade-setting, and dependency fixes; @thomastsaidotcom for the smoke-test reproduction and regression cases; and @iminfine, @zmahomedy, @pereponkin, @humhue, and @MardSilva for detailed reports and testing. Earlier V6 improvements also benefited from @AlvaroBiano, @jclllycf, @jgafarias, @mhughdo, @host-felice, and everyone who supplied logs and tested fixes.
The Pro Researcher skill is available for users who want to delegate research to Pro sub-agents.
Update
Finish active tasks, quit the launcher, install the update, and reopen it. Restart Codex after updating its integration. Your settings and browser profile are preserved. If your connector is missing from Temporary Chat, enable Settings → Save chats in ChatGPT; an existing off setting is not changed automatically.
If a closed issue still happens, open a new issue with Activity → Export safe log, the failure time, launcher/Codex versions, and model/effort. If your issue remains open, add the new results there.