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This is an external report; KFA did not reproduce it, and no release version is established (a commenter cites main commit 10da569252). Source: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688 Symptom: With a directory named config.txt<TAB>x, an exec_command call using that workdir starts in config.txtx, which does not exist. The model receives a CreateProcess rejection reporting 'No such file or directory (os error 2)'. The reporter says apply_patch resolves paths the same way, so a file x.md<TAB>x would be written as x.mdx. Source: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688\n\nSuspected cause (reporter hypothesis, not maintainer-confirmed): PathUri::join and path_uri_from_segments add names through the url crate's PathSegmentsMut, which, following the WHATWG URL spec, strips ASCII tab and newline. Url::from_file_path reportedly encodes a tab as %09. Source: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688\n\nAdditional commenter evidence (a test run against codex-utils-path-uri, reported by a non-maintainer): join dropped tab, LF and CR, while a NUL byte returned InvalidFileUriPath. The same crate's from_abs_path path encodes the tab as %09 and round-trips correctly, so the asymmetry is in join. Pre-encoding the segment as %09 does not help because push double-encodes it to %2509. Both relative and absolute join branches reportedly are affected. Source: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688#issuecomment-6088644463 and https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688#issuecomment-6090327506\n\nFix status: A commenter reports a fix on a fork branch that encodes only tab, LF and CR as %09/%0A/%0D in join and path_uri_from_segments, leaving literal % behavior unchanged. They report cargo test for codex-utils-path-uri (86 passed) and codex-apply-patch (97 passed). This is a proposed, unmerged fork change by a non-maintainer; no upstream commit or release is cited. Source: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52688#issuecomment-6090327506 and https://github.com/argszero/codex/pull/7\n\nPractical implication: until a fix ships, the only conservative mitigation implied by the sources is to avoid tab, LF or CR in directory and file names used with exec_command workdir and apply_patch. This is inferred from the report, not a verified workaround. 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