Codex CLI 0.160.0

New Features

• Browse older tasks in the agent command center with a keyboard-accessible “Show more” action.
• Select transcript text and paste with middle-click in fullscreen mode on supported local Linux X11 terminals.
• Start sessions outside a project with workspace defaults when policy permits, and restore saved permissions when resuming.
• Added opt-in Guardian review capabilities to retrieve earlier user instructions and include context from agent handoffs.

Bug Fixes

• Unsent queued messages now resume after reconnection once uncertain submissions are resolved, avoiding duplicate sends.
• The terminal UI now preserves server provider, reasoning-summary, and verbosity settings and shows the correct sessions in resume and fork history.
• Fixed Windows sandbox PowerShell fallbacks and long-path permission repairs, and suppressed unwanted console windows from background helpers.
• Subagents now retain environments that are still starting and receive their configuration or preparation failure.
• Prevented SQLite stalls during connection setup and logging, and surfaced initialization errors instead of masking them as timeouts.
• Explicit provider model catalogs no longer include unsupported bundled models or reuse stale entries after refresh failures.

Documentation

• Clarified how provider credentials use the configured storage backend and how env_key identifies the API-key environment variable.

Chores

• Reduced repeated plugin-loading work by caching parsed manifests and reusing HTTP connections for remote plugin requests.
• Added background reclamation of unused log database space to reduce disk usage.