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If you are in the tech industry and have even a mild interest in the state of the industry, I think this is serious enough for you to drop everything and watch this video. It is fairly understandable even without being deeply conversant with InfoSec terminology. Simon Willison has a brief timeline of the incident on his blog if you would rather read it. This is a huge milestone for the tech world, if not the entire world.
For a long time, while using Codex, I missed the AskUserQuestion tool from Claude Code . Codex 0.88.0 , released on January 21, 2026, added its rough equivalent, request_user_input . Initially, it worked in Plan and Pair Programming modes, but not in the regular coding modes. After Codex simplified its public modes to Default and Plan, the tool became Plan-only. Codex 0.106.0 , released on February 26, 2026, made the tool available in Default mode too. But you need to enable an under-development…
If, like me, you manage your Homebrew installations with a dotfile-style Brewfile, you might not know that it can manage globally installed npm utilities too. This is all you need to add: npm "@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp" npm "@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp"
I ran a side-by-side comparison of Codex using its built-in web search and using Exa through MCP. The difference wasn’t huge, but it was there: Codex’s built-in search returned a result that was about four days stale, while Exa found the latest release details. I invoked Exa with @Exa for this search. It found the July 29 release. Codex’s built-in search returned the July 25 release