Codex CLI 0.147 ships portable Agent Plugins and auto-approval
OpenAI's coding CLI gains a searchable plugin catalog, one-flag headless approvals, the new MCP protocol, and token redaction — while dropping --full-auto.
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Portable plugins, four catalogs
Codex 0.147 installs portable Agent Plugins and searches across local, personal, workspace, and remote catalogs — the same shareable-plugin model Claude Code and Vercel's Skill Packs shipped this week.
One flag for headless approvals
The new `--approve-for-me` flag turns on automatically-reviewed approvals, so unattended and CI runs stop stalling on permission prompts. Watch the break: `codex exec --full-auto` is gone — switch to `--sandbox workspace-write`.
The new MCP protocol, opt-in
Codex now speaks the opt-in MCP 2026-07-28 revision: paginated tool discovery, multi-round requests, and non-blocking server startup, so large MCP servers stop blocking launch.
Secrets stay out of the transcript
Bearer tokens and secrets are now redacted from displayed commands and replayed conversation history. Amazon Bedrock users also gain cached web search and remote conversation compaction.
Elsewhere: a free domain with Vercel Pro
New Vercel Pro subscribers now get a free domain for one year across six TLDs, claimable at checkout or within 30 days from the dashboard — one less bill for a weekend project.