This episode covers a major Codex update that adds standalone web search for custom model providers, making live retrieval work with LM Studio, private gateways, and other non-OpenAI setups. It also breaks down config and security details, plus handy quality-of-life fixes like inline session naming and stricter dynamic environment validation.

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• Releases · openai/codex: https://github.com/openai/codex/releases

This episode digs into a redirect routing bug that broke downloads and OAuth flows behind corporate proxies, and how a new route-aware client now re-evaluates proxy rules on every hop while protecting sensitive headers. It also covers improved Rust build support with CARGO_HTTP_CAINFO for MITM trust bundles, plus small terminal quality-of-life upgrades for sub-sessions and syntax highlighting.

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• Releases · openai/codex: https://github.com/openai/codex/releases

This episode explores Codex 0.146.0’s native WebSocket support for offloading heavy code execution to remote hosts, keeping local machines lightweight while enabling fast bidirectional streaming. It also covers reconnection handling, proxy pitfalls, and terminal UI polish like cleaner headers, clickable wrapped links, and non-blocking Control-C.

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• Releases · openai/codex: https://github.com/openai/codex/releases

This episode breaks down Codex 0.146.0’s smarter skill selection, including Reciprocal Rank Fusion, dynamic context budgets, and graceful truncation when tool catalogs get too large. It also covers clearer warnings, session naming improvements, automatic MCP server reconnection, and new Agent Plugin manifest support across toolchains.

We break down the security risks of exposing an OpenAI API key on shared servers and how the new Codex responses API proxy keeps credentials out of process lists, command history, and swap space. The episode also covers loopback access, local configuration, and the shutdown caveat teams need to watch in multi-user environments.

This episode dives into Codex CLI’s move from expensive JSONL duplication to zero-copy, reference-based forks, preserving timestamps while cutting branching latency and disk usage. It also covers temporary side sessions for subagents and a quirky terminal UI bug where buffered keypresses can trigger runaway chained forks.

Learn how Codex Desktop and CLI can drift out of sync with your real filesystem after rapid branch switches or workspace changes, and how to diagnose stale file state with /state and CODEX_SYNC_DEBUG. The episode also covers tuning watcher exclusions in .codex/config.toml to avoid file-watch crashes, resource exhaustion, and risky system-wide inotify tweaks.

We dig into a nasty SQLite logging loop that can silently hammer SSDs, then share a clever trigger-based workaround to stop the writes before they hit disk. The episode also covers why paginated chat history had to be rolled back in a fast-moving alpha build after it triggered boot loops and startup freezes.

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• [macOS Desktop 26.721.41059] Persistent SQLite TRACE ...: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/35308

We break down Codex CLI v0.145.0’s stable Multi Agent v2 release, where encrypted parent-to-child agent messages make local logs, SQLite records, and TUI threads largely unreadable. The episode also covers why this shift was made to combat API piracy, plus the few quality-of-life updates that help ease the workflow pain.

The hosts break down a rushed v0.145.2 fix for a sandbox regression that left child processes hanging, ports stuck open, and CI pipelines timing out. They also cover the new secrets-scrubbing controls and trusted host bypasses designed to keep enterprise firewalls and NetSec teams happy.