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Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Re: Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Post by embedding-shape »

pshirshov wrote: post #2

I wonder if they are gonna stop us from using gpt subscriptions in alternative harnesses. If not - that doesn't matter much, codex cli is a remarkably unremarkable harness.

> I wonder if they are gonna stop us from using gpt subscriptions in alternative harnesses

Probably not, the whole app-server machinery is there to facilitate that thing, would be a huge piece to rip out of codex. This is basically the reason I end up using codex the most, as it's the easiest to integrate against, with the app-server's RPC API making it really trivial.

Besides, most of my codex usage at this point is all through custom integrations I've built using Codex's app-server, not the Codex TUI they publish. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

But, if they suddenly start to encrypt content on our disk, so only their backends can see it, and those things are prompts and other things that are actual inputs to the inference, then who cares if it's easy to integrate against, it becomes impossible to figure out what the fuck is going on, I can't understand how the team thought this was a good idea...

Re: Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Post by Iolaum »

pshirshov wrote: post #2

I wonder if they are gonna stop us from using gpt subscriptions in alternative harnesses. If not - that doesn't matter much, codex cli is a remarkably unremarkable harness.

Doubt they will do it as long as Anthropic is leading in business adoption. If they become the top dog with a good lead, all bets are off. Hopefully by the time open models will be even better than gpt-5.6 sol xD.

Re: Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Post by mapontosevenths »

pshirshov wrote: post #2

I wonder if they are gonna stop us from using gpt subscriptions in alternative harnesses. If not - that doesn't matter much, codex cli is a remarkably unremarkable harness.

Anthropic and Google already charge extra to use your own harness. That's 100% of the reason I'm using OpenAI.

If they go down that path I'll just go back to my old buddy Claude, or maybe buy a second Spark and keep it local.

Re: Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Post by sarjann »

Iolaum wrote: post #4
pshirshov wrote: post #2

I wonder if they are gonna stop us from using gpt subscriptions in alternative harnesses. If not - that doesn't matter much, codex cli is a remarkably unremarkable harness.

Doubt they will do it as long as Anthropic is leading in business adoption. If they become the top dog with a good lead, all bets are off. Hopefully by the time open models will be even better than gpt-5.6 sol xD.

It could also be the case that by the time business adoption picks up a lot they might not be as compute constrained. Depends on rate of growth.

Re: Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

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Post by minraws »

~~Finally someone doing it correctly. Love this change.~~

Edit: F really misunderstood the change, the title is misleading AF. I should have read the post before commenting lmao.

Absolutely hate it, now I guess... sigh..

Incase the title gets changed it used to say, "Codex starts encrypting prompts, uses ciphertext for inference instead"

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