Codex
OpenAI's Rust-based CLI for interacting with the Codex model.
β¨ New Features
>Skills: Explicit skill selections now inject SKILL.md content into the turn; skills load once per session and warn if a file
>Exec & sandbox: Shell snapshotting, reworked unified-exec events, elevated sandbox allowances (sendmsg/recvmsg), clearer rate-
>Platform/auth/build: MCP in-session login, remote-branch review support, Windows signing toggles, ConPty vendoring, Nix hash
>#7813 feat: use remote branch for review is local trails
>#7793 feat(tui2): add feature-flagged tui2 frontend
>#7784 Add vim-style navigation for CLI option selection
>#7763 Inject SKILL.md when itβs explicitly mentioned
>#7751 feat: support mcp in-session login
>#7641 feat: shell snapshotting
>#7550 Add vim navigation keys to transcript pager
>#7784 Add vim-style navigation for CLI option selection (already listed)
π Improvements
>Config API: config/read is fully typed; config writes preserve comments/order; model is optional to match real configs (#7658,
>TUI/UX: Log files drop ANSI codes; vim navigation for option selection and transcript pager; transcript continuity fix; slash-
>#7836 Disable ansi codes in TUI log file
>#7834 Error when trying to push a release while another release is in progress
>#7830 Remove conversation_id and bring back request ID logging
>#7817 fix: Upgrade @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to ^1.24.0
>#7795 Express rate limit warning as % remaining
>#7789 [app-server] Preserve comments & order in config writes
>#7788 Elevated Sandbox 1
>#7779 allow sendmsg/recvmsg syscalls in Linux sandbox
>#7775 chore: rework unified exec events
>#7769 make model optional in config
>#7765 Use codex-max prompt/tools for experimental models
>#7756 Vendor ConPtySystem
>#7750 refactor with_escalated_permissions to use SandboxPermissions
>#7658 [app-server-protocol] Add types for config
>#7589 chore: enable parallel tc
>#7779 allow sendmsg/recvmsg syscalls in Linux sandbox (already listed; ensure single entry)
>#7788 Elevated Sandbox 1 (already listed)
>#7807/7806/7804 Windows signing toggles (grouped above)
π Bug Fixes
>Misc fixes: Unsupported images error cleanly, absolute config paths, parallel test stability, duplicated feature spec removal,
>#7826 fix: flaky tests 3
>#7823 fix: remove duplicated parallel FeatureSpec
>#7818 fix: flaky test 2
>#7796 fix: introduce AbsolutePathBuf and resolve relative paths in config.toml
>#7762 Fix Nix cargo output hashes for rmcp and filedescriptor
>#7704 fix: Prevent slash command popup from activating on invalid inputs
>#7478 Fix: gracefully error out for unsupported images
>#7363 Fix transcript pager page continuity
β οΈ Deprecated
>#7799 Removed experimental "command risk assessment" feature
DEPRECATED
π Documentation
>#7787 fix more typos in execpolicy.md
π¦ Other Changes
>#7807 chore: disable trusted signing pkg cache hit
>#7806 Revert "Revert "feat: windows codesign with Azure trusted signing""
>#7804 Revert "feat: windows codesign with Azure trusted signing"
>#7797 parse rg | head a search
>#7757 Revert "Revert "feat: windows codesign with Azure trusted signing""