Alpha· Major · Confirmed
Audio input reaches the Responses API
Codex adds audio-bearing input protocol support and forwards audio while keeping history model-compatible.
Audio becomes a first-class input shape across protocol and forwarding layers. History inclusion remains guarded by the selected model's declared input modalities.
Alpha release context: 1 official tag was published that UTC day (rust-v0.145.0-alpha.24). The full comparison contains 20 commits and 209 changed files.
Evidence
User-input protocols gain audio variants.Why it matters: App clients can represent audio input through defined protocol types instead of an out-of-band convention.
Direct evidence · Confirmed
Supporting sources
- Add audio variants to user input protocols (#33923) commit · Official
- rust-v0.145.0-alpha.23 to rust-v0.145.0-alpha.24 comparison tag-compare · Official
Conflicting sources
No conflicting sources recorded.
Audio inputs are forwarded to the Responses API.Why it matters: Audio-bearing turns can reach model inference through the normal response path when the model supports them.
Direct evidence · Confirmed
Supporting sources
- Forward audio inputs to the Responses API (#33932) commit · Official
- rust-v0.145.0-alpha.23 to rust-v0.145.0-alpha.24 comparison tag-compare · Official
Conflicting sources
No conflicting sources recorded.
Inline visualization links render in the TUI.Why it matters: Terminal users can open visualization artifacts directly from the conversation output.
Direct evidence · Confirmed
Supporting sources
- Render inline visualization links in the TUI (#33925) commit · Official
- rust-v0.145.0-alpha.23 to rust-v0.145.0-alpha.24 comparison tag-compare · Official
Conflicting sources
No conflicting sources recorded.
Availability
Availability note: these sources establish repository and CLI release activity. They do not, by themselves, prove that the same changes were live in Codex Desktop.
Availability by surface
| Surface | Status | Claim-level evidence |
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| CLI | Prerelease · Documented · General |
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| Desktop | Unknown · Unknown · Unknown |
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| IDE | Unknown | No central-claim assertion recorded. |
| Cloud | Unknown | No central-claim assertion recorded. |
| Mobile | Unknown | No central-claim assertion recorded. |