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Somebody's usage meter left about a
hundred and eighty six thousand temp directories

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on their disk, and that's actually where I
want to end today.

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But first, the main thing in Codex CLI
0.167.1, because it connects

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back to our Bedrock setup episode on
0.164.0.

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And thanks to Jellypod AI for sponsoring
this episode.

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Version 0.167.1 shipped on November 10,
2026.

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Tag rust-v0.167.1, commit 0a94398.

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It's a targeted patch on top of 0.167.0.

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The headline is a new, disabled by default
flag: features dot

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incremental_tools_legacy.

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It's tracked in upstream pull requests
59832 and 60040.

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Here's the mechanism.

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In a long, tool heavy session, every model
request normally carries the full list of

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tool declarations.

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That's the same definitions, turn after
turn.

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It costs context, latency, and tokens.

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Incremental tool catalogs let Codex send
updates to tool state without re-sending

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the tools that haven't changed.

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Responses Lite already uses an existing
flag called incremental_tools.

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The new legacy flag is for the other
routes, and here's the catch: on non Responses

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Lite routes, it's restricted to the Amazon
Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Runtime

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provider IDs.

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Regular OpenAI Responses does not get this
opt in.

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So if you followed our 0.164.0 Bedrock
episode and you're routing through Bedrock,

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this is the follow up.

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Two behaviors changed with it.

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One, incremental tool catalogs now leave
hosted web search declarations out of the

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conversation history, while web search
stays in the top level request tools.

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Two, remote context compaction now follows
that same route aware handling,

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so web search configuration is preserved
without compaction errors or duplicate

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declarations.

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To try it, pass the flag on the command
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codex, dash dash enable,
incremental_tools_legacy.

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Or for a one shot run, codex exec, dash
dash enable, incremental_tools_legacy,

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then your prompt in quotes.

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To make it stick, open your config dot
toml in the dot codex folder in your home

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directory, find the features table, and
set incremental_tools_legacy equal to true.

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Caveats.

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It's off by default, and it's under
development, so treat it as an experiment.

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Provider eligibility is strictly enforced.

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Point it at the default OpenAI endpoint or
another provider,

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and nothing activates.

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No error needed, it simply does nothing.

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And because web search declarations are
dropped from history,

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if you're debugging tool state in saved
transcripts, look at the top level request

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parameters, not the intermediate turns, or
you'll think web search vanished.

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Now a few smaller things.

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First, a scare from November 10.

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GPT-6.1 Sol vanished from the model picker
for some users, in issue 60676.

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The refreshed catalog excluded it, while
the bundled one still had it,

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and some people hit an error saying the
model requires a newer version of Codex.

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A maintainer said on November 11 that they
believe it's fixed on the backend.

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To check your own state, run codex debug
models, then codex debug models dash dash

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bundled, and compare the two.

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Second, the leak.

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Issue 60615, still open as of the report.

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When codex app-server gets a SIGTERM about
a second after startup,

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during its plugin marketplace check, the
temp git directory under dot codex slash

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dot tmp never gets cleaned up.

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A desktop usage meter probing twice a
minute left roughly 186,000 of them over

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eleven weeks, enough to exhaust updatedb's
open file limit.

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If you poll app-server from scripts,
either let it exit cleanly,

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or start it with dash dash disable
plugins, which created no directories in the

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reporter's test.

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Third, a known bug: thread slash timeline
slash list in 0.167.1

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rejects archived threads with error minus
32600, thread is archived,

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even though items list and turns list
work.

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Unarchive the thread and the timeline
reads again.

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And last, a nice one in the terminal UI:
while an approval modal is open,

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you can expand patch details inline with
plus Show details.

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That's it for today.