codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix Windows Computer Use unavailable: native pipe missing in Codex Desktop 26.602.30954

What version of the Codex App are you using?

Codex Desktop for Windows: Version 26.602.30954

Released: 5 Jun 2026

The installed WindowsApps package path observed from PowerShell is:

OpenAI.Codex_26.602.3474.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0

Platform

Windows x64

What issue are you seeing?

Computer Use is listed as available in the local skill/plugin context, but runtime bootstrap fails with:

Computer Use native pipe path is unavailable

This prevents Computer Use from controlling Windows apps.

Diagnostics

The cached Computer Use plugin exists locally:

C:\Users\satri\.codex\plugins\cache\openai-bundled\computer-use\26.527.31326

The plugin cache includes:

node_modules\@oai\sky\bin\windows\codex-computer-use.exe

However, the active session does not expose native pipe metadata. nodeRepl.requestMeta only includes:

[
  "progressToken",
  "threadId",
  "x-codex-turn-metadata"
]

No native pipe, SKY_CUA, computer-use, or CUA metadata keys are present.

Live named pipes include browser-use pipes, but no codex-computer-use-* pipe:

LOCAL\mojo.plugin_browser_pipe_Default_
codex-browser-use\d685f0d3-8d08-4189-b9c8-13203bd1465a
codex-ipc
codex-browser-use-1fbe57d7-dab2-4ba3-a0f9-bf651dbc3217

Running codex plugin list from this environment fails with:

Program 'codex.exe' failed to run: Access is denied

Expected behavior

Computer Use should either:

1. Inject the native Computer Use pipe metadata into sessions where the plugin is available, or
2. Clearly report why Computer Use is unavailable, rather than exposing the skill while bootstrap fails.

Related issue

This appears related to:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/26204