Finding / codex
2026-10-24-codex-preview-fresh-terminal-sessions-defer-reviewer-selection-to-the-server
Preview fresh terminal sessions defer reviewer selection to the server. Alpha.1 leaves fresh-thread approval reviewer selection to the server unless invocation overrides are supplied. Explicit profile launches retain their resolved-configuration behavior. This extends server default handling for a separate setting from model and effort; stable 0.164.0 does not contain this fix.
Channel: preview-or-beta. Half: both. Date: 2026-10-23.
Operator consequence: Test first-turn reviewer identity using a server default, explicit override, and named profile. Do not infer reviewer selection from stable model-default behavior.
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Run: 2026-10-24-weekly-digest-2026-10-13_2026-10-24-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-10-24-codex-preview-fresh-terminal-sessions-defer-reviewer-selection-to-the-server
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