3 Aug 2026 · sandipb.net
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…
2 Aug 2026 · sandipb.net
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"
1 Aug 2026 · sandipb.net
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
15 Jul 2026 · sandipb.net
I first ran into this a day earlier, when Codex greeted me on startup with Warning: Exceeded skills context budget . That sent me down a rabbit hole: why were my skills being loaded into context when most already had disable-model-invocation: true in their frontmatter? Really annoyed to just find out that Codex doesn’t support the disable-model-invocation field in skills. Instead, it wants a Codex-specific file in the skill to do the same thing. With Claude Code and Pi , adding disable-model-i…