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Codex presets and inline model flags, credential masking for remote exec

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Codex turned its composer into a configurable surface with reusable presets and inline model/reasoning/speed flags, while its remote exec path stopped handing real credentials to Bash commands.

Enable credential masking for remote exec-server commands (#54309) openai/codex

by viyatb-oai

Supported non-login Bash commands on Linux and macOS now receive credential placeholders instead of real secrets, with the executor-local proxy injecting credentials only for matching destinations, and mappings persist across process launches within the same executor session scoped by environment and conversation.

Add `/presets` for reusable prompts and slash commands openai/codex

by copyberry

A TUI picker gives you ten numbered preset slots for reusable prompts and slash commands, created from composer text or your current model, reasoning effort, and speed settings, persisted under `tui.presets` in your user configuration. Saved inputs run through the normal queued submission path and your composer draft survives.

Support inline model, reasoning, and speed selection in `/model` openai/codex

by copyberry

`/model [model] --reasoning <level> --speed <tier>` now updates the current session without touching saved defaults, with both space-separated and `=` flag values accepted; omit the model to retarget the current one. Bare `/model` still opens the picker, and unknown flags or unsupported levels and tiers are rejected before anything applies.

Add a keyboard shortcut menu for presets openai/codex

by copyberry

The `/presets` recall picker moved to a responsive menu above the composer: press `0` through `9` to run a saved preset or create one in an empty slot, and `n`, `s`, `e`, `d` to create, start from current settings, edit, or delete. The new `tui.keymap.chat.open_presets` binding defaults to an implicit `leader p` that yields to existing bindings, and the action appears in `/keymap` with a shortc...

fix: add /v1 to host-only OpenAI Compatible base URLs once, on VS Code and JetBrains cline/cline

by saoudrizwan

The extension had stopped appending `/v1` to host-only OpenAI Compatible base URLs, which would have started returning 404s on the next release for the common vLLM, LM Studio, Ollama, and proxy setups; `/v1` is now added once, on both VS Code and JetBrains.

fix(openrouter): use the context length OpenRouter reports aaif-goose/goose

by Cassian433

OpenRouter sessions ignored the context length the provider reports and fell back to the 128,000 default for any model outside the canonical catalog unless `GOOSE_CONTEXT_LIMIT` was set; the provider now implements the context-limit hook from `/api/v1/models`, parsed once and refetched hourly, with a failed refetch keeping the old list and retrying after 60 seconds.

fix(cli): resolve settings placeholders after loading .env files google-gemini/gemini-cli

by elberthc-byte

Settings placeholders were expanded against `process.env` before `.env` files were loaded, so a value defined only there, such as `"Authorization": "Bearer $GITHUB_MCP_PAT"`, was sent to MCP servers as the literal string and came back `400 Bad Format Authorization Header`; resolution now happens after `.env` loading.

feat(desktop): remove the Cloud sessions settings toggle cline/cline

by saoudrizwan

Desktop Cloud sessions no longer require the Settings > General toggle: the `code-cloud-agents` PostHog rollout flag is now the only gate, so cloud turns on for everyone that flag already targets.

Quick answers

What shipped in Agentic Coding on October 16, 2026?
Codex turned its composer into a configurable surface with reusable presets and inline model/reasoning/speed flags, while its remote exec path stopped handing real credentials to Bash commands. In total, 137 commits, 128 pull requests, and 10 releases landed.
Who contributed to Agentic Coding on October 16, 2026?
22 developers shipped this update, including GitHub Actions, viyatb-oai, copyberry, Hona, vimtor, neriousy, rekram1-node, and jesussamuel-byte, and 14 more.
What were the notable Agentic Coding updates?
Enable credential masking for remote exec-server commands (#54309), Add `/presets` for reusable prompts and slash commands, and Support inline model, reasoning, and speed selection in `/model`.