Elevated errors for GitHub-dependent ChatGPT and Codex workflows

Resolved Minor impact

On July 20, 2026 at 00:34 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT and Codex with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 2h 59m and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.

Incident Facts

All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”

Started
Resolved
Duration
2h 59m
Affected services
ChatGPT, Codex
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. 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.
  2. Investigating Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")
  3. Investigating Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")
  4. Investigating Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")
  5. Monitoring We are monitoring the recovery.
  6. Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Related troubleshooting

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Current ChatGPT Status

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