OpenAI's Codex, the company's AI-powered coding assistant, was reportedly experiencing connectivity and access issues for some users early Tuesday, with outage tracking services and user reports pointing to intermittent disruptions affecting the tool's desktop application and related services.

According to outage tracking site StatusGator, 21 user-submitted reports of problems with Codex were logged over a 24-hour period ending Monday evening, with the platform describing OpenAI as experiencing a partial outage at the time. The social media account Status Is Down flagged the issue early Tuesday morning, asking followers whether they were affected and using the hashtags #OpenAI, #OpenAIDown, #Codex and #CodexDown as reports of the disruption circulated online.

Multiple users also reported problems directly on OpenAI's GitHub issue tracker for the Codex project throughout the day Monday and into Tuesday. Several issues logged by developers described connectivity problems affecting the Codex desktop application, including disconnection errors related to networking and endpoint connectivity, as well as separate issues involving the tool's integration with Model Context Protocol servers, a framework Codex uses to connect with external tools and data sources. Additional reports cited problems with tool-calling functionality and issues specific to the Codex application running on Windows systems.

OpenAI's official status page acknowledged ongoing issues tied to its systems, though the company's most recent public update focused specifically on disruptions affecting FedRAMP workspaces, a designation for cloud environments that meet federal government security compliance standards. According to that update, OpenAI said core........

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