Codex Isn't Reading Images

[am-will]

What version of Codex is running?

0.77

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

5.2 Codex

What platform is your computer?

Linux

What issue are you seeing?

I asked Codex to scrape some text and add it to the rules, but instead, its exploring the codebase for the image name (but its in my clipboard instead).

Unsure if this is expected behavior but I certainly think we should be able to share images from clipboard

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019b5157-67ea-7453-ba3b-05132b349165

What is the expected behavior?

Should read the image.

Additional information

No response

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[InderdeepBajwa]

+1 on Mac Terminal.

Steps:

1. Capture a screenshot into clipboard
2. Paste into Codex CLI
3. It can't read it.

[toorusr]

Yes, same issue here!

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@ae-openai @aibrahim-oai

[am-will]

@InderdeepBajwa @toorusr I have a temporary fix that works well for me. Keep in mind, i'm on Linux and unsure how this would work on other platforms.

Obviously this will depend where your clipboard images are stored, and if they're accessible by the agent. In a container, they won't be.

Put this in the .codex/AGENTS.md:

## Clipboard Screenshots
- Pasted images named `codex-clipboard-*.png` are saved in root `/tmp` (e.g., `[codex-clipboard-mWiFoN.png 443x658]`).

[weiying-chen]

Same here. I have to tell Codex to search in /tmp.

Ubuntu 25.10. Codex 0.77. gpt-codex 5.2.

[PhilChen-6765]

+1, macos 26.2, Codex CLI 0.77

codex can only see the clipboard string, but cannot find the image

[am-will]

Same here. I have to tell Codex to search in /tmp.

Ubuntu 25.10. Codex 0.77. gpt-codex 5.2.

Use my instructions in base agents.md

Tell it to look for clipboard images in ROOT /tmp

[CorbinStewart]

Running into the same issue with 0.77.0 on MacOS in terminal. gpt-5.2-codex

[CorbinStewart]

For fellow MacOS users, you can put in the following into your AGENTS.md to get it to locate your screenshots

## Clipboard Screenshots
- Pasted images named `codex-clipboard-*.png` are saved under the filesystem root at: `/private/var/folders/*/*/T/` (e.g., `[codex-clipboard-mWiFoN.png 443x658]`).

[am-will]

For fellow MacOS users, you can put in the following into your AGENTS.md to get it to locate your screenshots

## Clipboard Screenshots
- Pasted images named `codex-clipboard-*.png` are saved under the filesystem root at: `/private/var/folders/*/*/T/` (e.g., `[codex-clipboard-mWiFoN.png 443x658]`).

Good stuff brother

Now if any windows users can confirm their clipboard locations we'll have them all covered.

It's important you tell the agent the images are in ROOT.