OpenAI resolves GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work slowdown after about 8.5 hours
OpenAI resolved its GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work slowdown at 16:36 UTC on Oct 13, about 8.5 hours after the incident began. Mitigation was applied at 09:30 UTC before the final fix.
What happened
OpenAI's status page marked the incident "Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode" as Resolved at 16:36 UTC on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 (09:36 PDT), stating: "We have resolved the issue causing degraded performance with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work." Timeline from the same official status page: Investigating from 08:10 UTC, mitigation applied with status Monitoring at 09:30 UTC, Resolved at 16:36 UTC — roughly 8 hours 26 minutes from first report to resolution. Affected components per the Pingoru incident tracker: Codex Web, Codex API, CLI, VS Code extension, and ChatGPT Work. This is the resolution of the incident covered earlier today in the dotsfeed post "oct-13-degraded-performance-gpt-6-1-sol-codex-work-mode". The status page gave no cause for the incident — do not state or imply one.
Why it matters
Codex and ChatGPT Work are OpenAI's delegated-work surfaces, so a full working day of degraded GPT-6.1 Sol performance hit the users who rely on them most. The fix landing the same day, with a public timeline, closes the loop on an incident that began just hours after the model became the default for those surfaces.
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