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/permissions now supports named profiles with custom profiles displayed, Codex Remote is generally available for driving a connected Mac or Windows host from the ChatGPT mobile app, and system proxy routing including PAC and WPAD landed (releasebot). Named profiles are the feature every other CLI should copy. Switching permission posture by name beats hand-editing an allowlist per task, and it makes the posture reviewable as a config artifact instead of a decision you made at 11pm.
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As of June 26, per Releasebot, OpenAI removed GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT, migrating existing conversations to GPT-5.5, and rolled Codex Remote to general availability on all plans. You can now start or resume coding work on a connected Mac or Windows host directly from the mobile ap...
Codex CLI added a built-in request_permissions tool so agents ask for elevated permissions mid-turn — matching Claude Code's sandbox approval pattern. Both major CLI agents now converge on "ask-when-needed" runtime escalation. Releasebot
On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
The July 18 redesign for all plans on macOS and Windows adds a separated layout, unified Recents, native Projects, and Work conversations syncing to the cloud across every client. The split is the interesting part: OpenAI is formalizing a boundary between personal and organiza...
The July 29 walkthrough covers the consumer chat UIs of both products, not the developer APIs or CLI harnesses where MCP is well-trodden. That summary judgment is the finding. Know that friction before you plan any distribution strategy assuming end users will attach your MCP...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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