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Plugins follow sign-in mode as subagent controls expand

Curated plugins now track the active authentication mode, subagents gain configurable developer instructions, and remote execution, thread history, Windows interrupts, and terminal responsiveness improve.

  • Feature
  • MCP
  • Sandbox
  • API

The most visible platform change is authentication-aware plugin routing. Codex now selects the curated ChatGPT, remote, or API marketplace from the active sign-in mode and refreshes existing thread MCP runtimes when an account switch changes the effective catalog.

Multi-agent v2 gains a configurable developer-instruction override for roleless subagents. The setting can inherit, replace, or deliberately clear parent instructions, while role-specific instructions still win and the effective behavior survives forks, compaction, and cold resume.

Remote execution builds on the previous release's network-decision plumbing by enabling controller callbacks when Guardian review is active. Requests are bounded by configured timeouts, checked against live policy, attributed to the trusted execution scope, and cancelled when that scope ends.

Thread history becomes harder to corrupt through partial local state. Missing rollout files no longer erase their database metadata or consume listing slots, and paginated history no longer overwrites original titles, previews, or first-message data during reads and resumes.

Windows non-TTY commands can now be interrupted through write_stdin. In the terminal UI, focus regain preserves queued input, and the subagent picker opens immediately from cached state before refreshing descendants in the background.

Turn preparation also overlaps MCP startup with endpoint plugin recommendations instead of waiting for them serially. The rust-v0.146.0-alpha.13 to rust-v0.146.0-alpha.14 comparison contains 23 commits and 113 changed files.

Evidence

Curated plugins now follow the active authentication mode.Why it matters: Codex selects the ChatGPT, remote, or API marketplace from the current sign-in state and refreshes plugin-backed MCP runtimes when account changes alter the effective catalog.

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V2 subagents can receive configurable developer instructions.Why it matters: A new multi-agent setting can override, inherit, or clear developer instructions for roleless subagents while role-specific instructions retain precedence across forks, compaction, and resumed sessions.

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Remote execution now enables bounded network-policy callbacks.Why it matters: When Guardian review is enabled, remote managed-network requests can reach the controller-side decider with configured timeouts, live policy rechecks, trusted attribution, and cancellation when execution ends.

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Thread listings and resumes preserve canonical metadata more reliably.Why it matters: Missing rollout files no longer consume result slots or erase database records, and bounded history reads no longer replace original previews, titles, or first-user-message metadata.

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Interrupts now terminate Windows non-TTY processes.Why it matters: Ctrl-C sent through write_stdin can stop local and remote pipe-backed Windows commands while PTY sessions retain their existing interrupt behavior.

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Turn preparation overlaps MCP startup with plugin recommendations.Why it matters: Codex prepares the MCP runtime and endpoint recommendations concurrently, waits for both before sampling, and cancels their combined work when a turn is interrupted.

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The TUI avoids blocking input during focus and subagent navigation.Why it matters: Focus regain reuses the cached terminal palette instead of issuing blocking color queries, while the subagent picker opens from cached state and refreshes descendants in the background.

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Availability

Availability note: these sources establish repository and CLI prerelease activity. They do not, by themselves, prove that the same changes were live in Codex Desktop.

Availability by surface

SurfaceStatusClaim-level evidence
CLIPrerelease · Documented · General
  • claim-2026-07-28-auth-aware-plugins: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-subagent-instructions: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-remote-policy-callbacks: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-thread-metadata: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-windows-interrupts: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-faster-turn-preparation: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
  • claim-2026-07-28-tui-responsiveness: Prerelease · Documented · General · version 0.146.0-alpha.14 · source-release-2026-07-28
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