OpenAI Codex CLI v0.146.0 Changelog

This update is all about making the coding assistant feel more like a fully-featured workspace. It matters most to developers who juggle multiple conversations at once, rely on custom plugins, or need the app to work smoothly over strict network connections.

What's new

• Better chat management: You can now use /new or /clear to give your sessions custom names. You can "pin" important chats to keep them handy, and you can start side conversations (called "forks") without closing your main chat window.
• More plugins: The tool now supports "Agent Plugins" (add-ons that give the AI extra skills). It also added support for plugin marketplaces from Amazon Bedrock and Claude Code, meaning you have more places to find and download helpful tools.
• Remote connections: The app can now connect to remote "Code Mode" hosts using WebSockets (a live, two-way connection that lets your computer talk to a server instantly).
• Web search: If you use custom AI models that support it, the tool can now do standalone web searches to help answer your questions.
• Skill discovery: The AI can now find and securely read extra skills provided by its "executor" (the background system that actually runs the code).

Improvements

• Faster background tasks: The app's server does a better job handling data behind the scenes, cutting down on unnecessary memory usage and making things run faster.
• Business controls: The app now recognizes enterprise plans, giving system administrators the ability to control in-app updates for their whole team.
• Safer Mac downloads: The helper programs included in the Mac version of the app are now officially signed and notarized, which means your computer won't flag them as suspicious or unsafe to open.
• Better skill management: If the AI is running low on "context budget" (the amount of text it can remember at once), it will now hold onto as many skills as possible and warn you if it has to drop any.

Fixes

• Proxy problems fixed: If your computer uses a proxy (a middleman server for internet traffic), the app now correctly uses it for everything—logging in, downloading plugins, connecting to external tools, and handling web redirects.
• Stable connections: If you change your settings or login info, the app now smoothly updates its connections to external tools (MCP servers) without needing to restart everything.
• No more lost work: If the app gets interrupted, or if you replay or fork a conversation, your messages, final answers, timestamps, and approval settings are now safely preserved.
• Smoother terminal: Fixed keyboard handling, made the screen render better in narrow windows, and ensured that hyperlinks and mentions load correctly without freezing the screen.
• Windows fixes: Fixed broken navigation keys on Windows and made sure that sandboxed (isolated) process trees shut down reliably when you're done with them.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.