[Bug]: Codex provider can't use the Chrome plugin since 26.1023.50603: browser-access env not passed to codex app-server#26098
What happens
Since the Codex Chrome plugin auto-updated to 26.1023.50603, every browser call from a T3-hosted Codex session fails with "The browser access host is unavailable". The same browser work from the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app still works, and T3-hosted Codex sessions could use Chrome on the previous plugin version earlier the same day.
Why (what we observed)
- The plugin's browser service now expects
BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_PIPE_PATH,BROWSER_USE_ACCESS_VERIFYING_IDENTITYandBROWSER_USE_ACCESS_EXECUTOR_IDin the app-server environment. - The ChatGPT app's own
codex app-serverprocesses carry them (we checked variable names only, not values). - T3's (
t3 serve→codex app-server, 0.1.4-nightly.20261027.3783, macOS) carries none, and the Codex provider settings have no env passthrough.
Ask
Supported browser-access wiring for the Codex provider (obtaining the access pipe and identity the way the ChatGPT app does), or an env passthrough on the provider instance. We didn't copy the identity variable ourselves, since it looks like an access control.
Impact
All T3-hosted Codex browser automations are blocked until then. Possibly related to the closed #19924 (a different cause, the same symptom: works in the Codex app, fails under T3).