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🟡 ChatGPT and Codex are limping along after GitHub's API decided to play dead. CLI, VS Code, and web clients all caught the contagion. Turns out relying on external infrastructure has consequences—who knew?. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 20, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Elevated errors for GitHub-dependent ChatGPT and Codex workflows

// Status page says

Status: Investigating Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KXYF4BTCV9DTZ5NDSFN716FH

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