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Agents tracked: 483 Releases (7d): 766 Agent status: no reported issuesSince last limit reset: Claude 42d · Codex 3d Updated Nov 3, 2026
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OpenAI Codex 0.166.0 released

A feature release adding keyboard-driven transcript navigation, Markdown rendering improvements, GPT-6.1 Terra model support, and various bug fixes.

What changed in 0.166.0

  • Navigate transcripts with keyboard using word, line, and page motions, with integrated search and configurable shortcuts.
  • Markdown now renders consistently in async questions, choices, answers, and transcript replies.
  • Added GPT-6.1 Terra to bundled, Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock model catalogs.
  • Use codex queue --resume to resume unloaded threads after queueing messages; improved safety-block explanations and diagnostics with codex doctor --network-only.
  • Fixed thread resumption and forking to preserve settings, local image attachments, and reasoning-token accounting; improved offline TUI recovery.

Summarised by AgentGid from OpenAI's official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.

OpenAI Codex at a glance

What it isOpenAI's coding agent, offered as an open-source terminal CLI, an IDE extension, a desktop app and a cloud agent that works on repositories. Users sign in with a ChatGPT account or use an OpenAI API key; with an API key…
Latest version0.166.0 is the latest stable release we track.
Release pace8 stable releases in the last 30 days; 0.166.0 came 2 days after the previous one
PriceFree + $8/mo. Included in ChatGPT plans: Free $0, Go $8/month, Plus $20/month, Pro from $100/month ($100, $200 or $500 tiers), Business $20/user/month billed annually ($25 monthly), Enterprise … Official pricing ↗ (checked Oct 6, 2026)
Live statusUp 6 incidents in the last 30 days on the official status page
Usage limit resetsLast reset 3d ago, announced by @thsottiaux on X. All resets
Downloads, last 7 days27.8M up 15.4%
Gid Score84 #1 in Terminal coding agents

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