Codex this week: 7 changes, 5 user pain points, all here.

Nov 1 to Nov 8, checked against OpenAI's posts, changelog, status page and GitHub.

Releases
1. CLI v0.167.0 (Nov 6): agent command center via codex agents --no-daemon, switch backends without losing your draft, opt-in chats no longer vanish when you change model providers.
2. GPT-Image-2.6 came to Codex and the API (Nov 4). OpenAI says the new Flare and Sunburst API models generate images 50% faster.
3. GPT-6 Cyber launched Nov 5, in Codex and the API for approved Daybreak Red orgs only.
4. ChatGPT iOS 1.2026.300 (Nov 2): follow-ups steer the running task by default, and you can manage attachments in the full-screen composer.
5. Dots on iOS: reply inline from a notification, share straight to your dot, open it from the Action button. Tibo says Terra and Astra will power dots too.

Limits and pricing
6. Banked reset 2 of 2 landed Nov 1, the last day of Tibo's 28-day run. Redeem it in Usage settings or with /usage before it expires.
7. Tibo spelled out current Pro rates: Pro 100/200/500 = 10x/20x/50x Plus usage, no 5-hour cap on any Pro plan, ultrafast on Pro 500 only. Not a new increase. He also asked whether a Pro 50 tier would make sense. Just a question for now.

Incidents
- Nov 5: errors in ChatGPT Work and dots for about 1h40m until a mitigation went in.

What users are saying
- "Selected model is at capacity" with plenty of quota left. The loudest complaint of the week, on X and in several GitHub issues (#58824, #58858, #59059), across CLI and desktop, Plus and Pro. Several reporters say switching models doesn't help. No official explanation yet.
- Local projects vanish from the desktop sidebar after the 26.1103 update when you switch accounts (#59895, Windows and Mac). Chats and folders are still on disk. One user got them all back by re-adding a project with the exact same name and folder, then deleting the duplicate.
- Attaching an .xlsx leaves Send spinning (#58660 Windows, #59362 Mac). Two reporters got around it by typing the file's local path in the message instead.
- Typing lag in dot chats in the Mac desktop app (#59301). Several users say the same dot runs fine in Chrome.
- Pushback on December's shared ChatGPT + Codex pool continues on GitHub (#58742, #58655).

What people are asking OpenAI for: a status note or a clearer error when accounts with quota left get "at capacity", local projects shared across accounts on one machine again, and per-plan token numbers before December.

Community shoutout
@turushan built Codex Whip, a free, open-source Mac menu bar app. When Codex CLI stops on a capacity error or usage limit, it waits, then continues the same session with the same model: codexwhip.com

Tip
Reopen your latest CLI session in this folder, no picker:
codex resume --last

Sources: openai/codex releases and issues on GitHub, the ChatGPT & Codex changelog, status.openai.com, @OpenAI, @OpenAIDevs, @thsottiaux and @_samirism on X

9 stable releases and a 28-day run: Codex's October, all in one post.

Everything that shipped or changed in October 2026, checked against GitHub, OpenAI's changelog, help pages and official posts. Bookmark it for reference.

1. Biggest launches
- GPT-6.1 Terra came to Codex on usiness, Enterprise and Edu. Tibo says it gives 2x the usage of 6.1 Sol.
- GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast arrived Oct 8. OpenAI says it's up to 8x faster than Sol Standard. Pro $500 and eligible Enterprise and Edu only.
- Sol's default context in Codex went from 272k to 500k tokens on Oct 11, with no long-context fees on a ChatGPT plan.
- Tibo started a 28-day run on Oct 4: one clear improvement or a full limits reset every day.
- Also shipped: composer predictions (beta, Pro), a re-shipped Codex cloud with Tailscale support, a new Windows sandbox built on Microsoft's MXC, editing earlier messages in the desktop app, and about 60% less app data on disk plus a Storage tab.

2. Every stable CLI release
- 0.160.0 (Oct 1): start sessions outside a project, fewer SQLite stalls, Windows sandbox fixes
- 0.160.1 (Oct 5): keeps Windows env vars for remote MCP servers
- 0.161.0 (Oct 7): GPT-6.1 Sol becomes the default model, /mcp login, mic and speaker picker
- 0.162.0 (Oct 8): managed Git worktrees, pin tasks with p, /copy, clickable links
- 0.162.1 (Oct 9): fixes a TUI crash and background-server startup failures
- 0.163.0 (Oct 15): searchable /config, steer mid-response, leader key in /keymap, /daemon restart
- 0.164.0 (Oct 23): ten /presets slots, inline /model and /permissions, image previews
- 0.165.0 (Oct 27): built-in Vertex AI provider, Terra in the catalog, memory v2 on by default
- 0.166.0 (Oct 29): codex doctor --network-only, transcript search, codex queue --resume

3. Pricing, plans and limits
- Full limit resets landed again and again during the run, including Days 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 21 and 23. The run closes with banked resets you redeem yourself.
- Auto-review ("Approve for me") stopped counting against usage (Day 2). Day 12 stretched usage with longer caching, and Day 16 made the cache keep with no expiry for logged-in users.
- GPT-5.5 left Codex for ChatGPT sign-in on Oct 14. API-key sessions kept it.
- About 40,000 accounts had limits that didn't match their plan. OpenAI fixed it and added credits. Pro 500 upgraders hit by a separate bug got 25,000 credits.
- Codex for OSS grants moved up to the Pro 200 tier.
- Oct 29: limits doubled for Pro 100, 200, 500 and Business Premium, and the planned Pro 200 cut was cancelled.
- Pro and Business now get monthly API credits. They don't add to your Codex allowance.
- New device limits cap how many paid accounts one machine can hold ("Device limit reached").
- Coming in December: ChatGPT and Codex share one token-based allowance on Plus, Pro and Business.

4. What people hit, and the fixes
- Sudden usage drain (mid-month): a confirmed bug, now fixed. If it happens again, run /feedback in the affected session and check /usage daily.
- "Selected model is at capacity" or 429s with quota left (GitHub #57084): no official fix yet. Switch with /model, then codex resume to continue.
- VS Code extension 26.1021 won't start its UI: users report the pre-release build, rolling back with Install Specific Version, or launching with code --disable-gpu.
- Worktree chats fail with "Cannot serialize value" on Windows and Linux: Local mode still works.
- Max or Ultra missing from the reasoning slider (#58201): re-check it in Settings > General > Available reasoning efforts.
- Usage rings gone from the desktop sidebar (#57656): use Settings > Usage or /status.
- Security: don't launch Codex inside ~/Downloads, where Forever Security found a planted AGENTS.md. Don't install from reseller one-liners either. Symantec caught one turning the sandbox off.

5. Three tips worth keeping
- Get a baseline before December's shared pool: /usage daily and /usage weekly in the CLI.
- Pipe anything into Codex: npm test 2>&1 | codex exec "summarize the failures and propose the smallest fix"
- Mind the AGENTS.md cap. Codex merges your AGENTS.md files and stops at 32 KiB (project_doc_max_bytes), so split rules into nested folders.

Ask for November: publish the per-plan token allowance before the shared pool starts, so users can do the maths.

Sources: github.com/openai/codex releases and issues, developers.openai.com/codex/changelog, help.openai.com, and posts from @OpenAI, @OpenAIDevs and @thsottiaux

Codex this week: 9 changes, 5 user pain points, all here.

Oct 25 to Nov 1, checked against OpenAI's posts, help pages and GitHub.

Releases
1. GPT-6.1 Terra rolled out in Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu (Oct 26). Tibo says it gives 2x the usage of 6.1 Sol.
2. CLI t-in Vertex AI provider, change reasoning effort mid-chat, memory v2 on by default.
3. CLI v0.166.0 (Oct 29): Terra in the Vertex AI and Bedrock catalogs, codex doctor --network-only, transcript search, and a fix for early compaction after resume or fork.
4. Text your dot over iMessage or RCS (Pro, US preview). Multi-account switching landed on mobile, with desktop "coming soon".

Limits and pricing
5. Limits doubled for Pro 100, 200, 500 and Business Premium, and the Oct 30 Pro 200 cut was cancelled.
6. Pro and Business now get monthly API credits ($100 to $500 on Pro). They don't raise your Codex allowance.
7. Confirmed: from December, ChatGPT and Codex share one token-based allowance on Plus, Pro and Business.
8. New device limits: one machine can only hold so many paid accounts, or you get "Device limit reached".
9. Banked reset 1 of 2 is live. Redeem it in Usage settings or with /usage in the CLI.

Incidents and security
- Oct 27: GPT-6.1 Sol was degraded for about 78 minutes, then resolved.
- Don't run Codex inside ~/Downloads (Forever Security found a planted AGENTS.md), and don't install it from reseller one-liners (Symantec caught one turning the sandbox off).
- Forever Security says a local HTML page opened in Codex's built-in browser can read files on disk. Still unpatched as of Oct 29, per their write-up.

What users are saying
- 429 and "at capacity" errors with most of the allowance left, mostly VS Code on Linux. The busiest new GitHub issue this week (#57084, 87 comments). No fix yet. Switch models with /model, and codex resume picks the session back up.
- VS Code extension 26.1021.22027 "could not start its user interface" on Linux and Windows, across several issues. Reported workarounds: the pre-release build, an older version, or launching with code --disable-gpu.
- Usage rings vanished from the desktop app sidebar after recent updates (#57656, Windows and Mac). Check Settings > Usage or /status meanwhile.
- Max or Ultra missing from the reasoning slider after 26.1027 (#58201). Fix confirmed by several users: Settings > General > Available reasoning efforts, re-check the level.
- The shared December pool is the loudest topic on X, and a GitHub request to keep Plus allowances separate is gaining votes (#58530).

What people are asking OpenAI for: publish how chat and Codex tokens will be counted before December, bring the usage rings back, post a status note when 429s hit accounts with quota left, and give a fix date for the built-in browser issue.

Community shoutout
@talkaboutdesign built agent-stat, which shows your local Codex usage, per-request cost and live limits in one place: npx agent-stat@latest

Tip
Hold your banked reset until you need it. It only redeems once an allowance is under 80% remaining, and it moves your weekly reset date to the day you use it.

Sources: openai/codex releases and issues on GitHub, help.openai.com, @thsottiaux and @OpenAI on X

6/7 Workaround until then. Check the version actually moved:

b=$(codex --version); codex update; a=$(codex --version); echo "$b -> $a"

If it didn't, pin the release: npm i -g @openai/codex@0.166.0

With an age gate on, npm then fails loudly (ETARGET) instead of quietly.

3/7 Fixed in 0.166.0: the updater now saves the script first and only runs it if curl succeeded.

Same dead-proxy test: curl (7), a clear Error line, exit code 1, version unchanged. Correct. Fix by etraut-openai; root cause traced by jiang1997 & abruption.
github.com/openai/codex/p…

2/7 The old bug (standalone installs, 0.165.0 and earlier): the updater ran curl ... | sh. If curl fails, sh gets an empty script, exits 0, and Codex prints success.

I cut the network with a dead proxy: curl error (7), "🎉 Update ran successfully!", exit 0, still 0.165.0.

1/7 Half fixed: Codex's "Update ran successfully" message.

0.166.0 stops the standalone updater from claiming success when the download fails. On npm installs it can still say 🎉 when nothing changed, or after a downgrade. Tested on a clean Linux box, no login needed 🧵

507 👍: LSP in the CLI is Codex's top feature request.

Two of the top five are about undoing work:
- Bring back /undo (490)
- /rewind to roll back both the chat and the code edits (230)

Method: open enhancement issues in openai/codex, ranked by 👍, snapshot Oct 29. If one of r 👍 on the issue.

5/7 It looks load-sensitive. On a local 8-core Linux box the new build opened fine for me (UI mounted in 9.8 s). Others report it reproduces in dev containers too (MichaelDevine, SyncM1972 on GitHub).
Quick retries that help some: disable/re-enable the extension (wrickout).

3/7 Why it happens: the extension gives its webview 30 s to report "ready", then shows the error. I unpacked both builds. That 30 s limit is identical. What grew is the webview: 539 MB / 19,524 files before, 723 MB / 22,544 files now.

2/7 The fix most people confirm: roll back to the last good build.
code --install-extension openai.chatgpt@26.1007.21434 --force
On VS Code 1.143.1 it installed in ~13 s and was marked pinned. Via GitHub user StevieDicks, who said reinstalling from the menu didn't work.

Codex CLI v0.164.0 cheat sheet: resume and fork sessions, piping into codex exec, profiles, worktrees, /compact, /init, /presets, and remote control. Save this one.

5/8 Second trap: if Codex lives under ~/.local or nvm, ":minimal" = "read" may not cover its own binary:
bwrap: execvp …/codex: No such file or directory
A read rule for the install dir fixed it. Filed by GitHub user alma-iceee (+8):
github.com/openai/codex/i…

4/8 Heads-up: codex doctor shows ✓ sandbox for the same broken profile. Its own note says "resolve paths only; read/write access is not tested."
Smoke-test a new profile before trusting it:
codex sandbox -P <name> -- true
It surfaces the panic in under a second.

3/8 Workaround that worked: grant write on a directory, not a file ("docs" = "write"). Writes in docs/ succeed, while main.py and .git/config stay read-only.
Trade-off: the whole folder is writable. If you need a tight scope, move the file into its own folder.

1/8 Codex CLI on Linux: give a custom permission profile write access to one file and the sandbox panics before your command runs (exit 101). Still happens on 0.164.0. Reproduced without signing in. What breaks, what works 🧵
github.com/openai/codex/i…

Codex week in review (Oct 18 to 25)

Releases
CLI 0.164.0 (stable, Oct 23):
- /presets: ten numbered slots for reusable prompts and slash commands
- Inline args for /model and /permissions (set model, effort, speed in one line)
- Image previews in the transcript on Kitty or Sixel masking in remote Bash and Zsh sessions
- Fixes: failed compaction no longer leaves half-written summaries, resume restores saved thread settings, Windows proxy auth (NTLM/Negotiate) works

Usage and pricing
- OpenAI confirmed about 40,000 accounts had limits that didn't match their plan over last weekend. Corrected, with credits going out
- Pro 500 upgraders hit by an allowance bug are getting a 25,000 credit make-good
- Codex for OSS grants moved up to the Pro 200 tier
- Codex cache is now kept indefinitely for logged-in users
- Several limit resets this week, the latest on Oct 25

Incidents
- Oct 21: degraded performance across ChatGPT, Codex and the API, resolved the same morning (UTC)

What users are saying
1. Worktree chats fail with "Cannot serialize value" in the desktop app on Windows and Linux. Several GitHub reports, the most upvoted issue this week. Workaround: Local mode still works.
2. The VS Code extension build 26.1021 won't start its UI for some users, mostly on Windows. Multiple reports. Stopgap: Install Specific Version to roll back.
3. Dots vanished from the desktop sidebar after 26.1016 on macOS and Windows. A handful of reports.
4. Usage drain and 429 or "at capacity" errors with low weekly usage. Fewer reports than last week, but not gone.

What people are asking OpenAI for: a hotfix for worktree chats, a per-turn usage breakdown so drain is easy to prove, and status page entries when limits misfire.

Community shoutout
@neelsatyavolu built consult-mcp, a small open-source tool where Claude Code and Codex review each other's diffs. Try: npx -y consult-mcp@latest review

Tip
Save your go-to setup as a preset. In 0.164.0, /presets stores up to ten prompts or slash commands, so "/model with high effort, then review this diff" becomes one keystroke.

Sources: openai/codex releases and issues, OpenAI and Codex team posts on X, status.openai.com

7/ What I couldn't test: the interactive /presets menu. The TUI opens on a sign-in screen (ChatGPT / device code / API key / Bedrock) and this box has no credentials. Running the menu and launching presets with hotkeys is still unverified. I'll do a follow-up once I'm signed in.

5/ Rejected input: slot 12, or an input like " !ls". Per the PR, slots outside 0-9, blank inputs, shell `!` commands, and inputs over 8,000 bytes are invalid. doctor reported "config could not be loaded … invalid input parameter" for both.

4/ Check your config without signing in:
CODEX_HOME=./good codex doctor
→ config.toml parse: ok, config: loaded
`codex doctor` runs fine without auth (it flags auth separately). Good as a pre-commit check for dotfiles.

1/ Codex CLI 0.164.0 adds /presets: ten numbered slots (0-9) for prompts or slash commands you reuse, plus a keyboard menu to open them. I installed it on a clean Linux box to see what you can check without signing in. 🧵
github.com/openai/codex/r…

OpenAI is emailing Pro 500 users about a Codex limits bug.

If you upgraded from Pro 200, your weekly Codex and Work allowance stayed at Pro 200 levels until a fix on Oct 16.

The make-good: 25,000 credits ($1,000), separate from your weekly allowance, expiring Jan 20, 2027.

BREAKING: OpenAI status flags degraded Codex and ChatGPT Work as of 07:05 UTC.

Users hitting elevated errors. Issue identified; mitigation underway.

If runs fail or stall, it's on their side. Retry later.
status.openai.com/incidents/01M4…

Does Claude provide substantially greater token limits than Codex?