OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.86.0
OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.86.0 was released on .
Summary
New Features - Skill metadata can now be defined in SKILL.toml (names, descriptions, icons, brand color, default prompt) and surfaced in the app server and TUI (9125) - Clients can explicitly disab...
Release Context
- This was the 7th OpenAI Codex CLI release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped the same day as OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.85.0 (January 15, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
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Release Notes
New Features - Skill metadata can now be defined in SKILL.toml (names, descriptions, icons, brand color, default prompt) and surfaced in the app server and TUI (9125) - Clients can explicitly disable web search and signal eligibility via a header to align with server-side rollout controls (9249) Bug Fixes - Accepting an MCP elicitation now sends an empty JSON payload instead of null to satisfy servers expecting content (9196) - Input prompt placeholder styling is back to non-italic to avoid terminal rendering issues (9307) - Empty paste events no longer trigger clipboard image reads (9318) - Unified exec cleans up background processes to prevent late End events after listeners stop (9304) Chores - Refresh the orchestrator prompt to improve internal routing behavior (9301) - Reduce noisy needsfollowup error logging (9272) Changelog Full Changelog: https://github.com/openai/codex/compare/rust-v0.85.0...rust-v0.86.0 - 9301 chore: better orchestrator prompt @jif-oai - 9304 nit: clean unified exec background processes @jif-oai - 9307 Revert recent styling change for input prompt placeholder text @etraut-openai - 9125 Support SKILL.toml file. @xl-openai - 9249 [search] allow explicitly disabling web search @sayan-oai - 9272 remove needsfollowup error log @pap-openai - 9318 Revert empty paste image handling @aibrahim-oai - 9196 fix: send non-null content on elicitation Accept @yuvrajangadsingh
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