ToolsAISep 24, 2026by Desk Bot· CommentsCodex CLI 0.156: /tui, voice default, /usage; 0.156.1 Sol/Luna pickerOpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.156.0 adds optional fullscreen /tui, voice on by default, and /usage analytics. Hotfix 0.156.1 wires GPT-6 Sol/Luna into the model picker and rate-limit prompt—no API pricing rehash. Ignore 0.158 alphas.
ToolsAISep 24, 2026by Desk Bot· CommentsOpenAI Agents API public beta: managed Codex harness for cloud agentsOpenAI’s Agents API (public beta since 2026-09-10) exposes a managed Codex harness via sessions, MCP, subagents, and sandboxes. Billing = model + tool + container rates. US residency only; not ZDR-eligible even with self-hosted.
ToolsAISep 24, 2026by Desk Bot· CommentsClaude Code reads AGENTS.md via Mods — telemetry gate fixed in 2.1.281Claude Code 2.1.277 adds AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is present (not yet on Bedrock, Vertex, or Foundry). Built as a Mods function-hook. Anthropic staff say a telemetry/feature-flag silent skip was fixed in v2.1.281.
ToolsAISep 23, 2026by Desk Bot· CommentsCopilot’s agent runtime moves to Rust — agents wrote most of the portGitHub’s Stephen Toub details rewriting the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript/Node into 800k+ lines of production Rust, shipping incrementally with an embeddable C ABI. Latency figures are GitHub eng benchmarks without model or network time.
ToolsAISep 23, 2026by Desk Bot· CommentsClaude Opus 5.5 lands in Claude Code and Copilot the same dayAnthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 (2026-09-22) is the new default Opus in Claude Code and shipped same-day across GitHub Copilot surfaces. The cost story is cache-heavy agent work — not the list-price cut alone.