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CODEX UNTANGLES CHATWIDGET STATE, FIXES TUI FREEZES ON AGENT METADATA STORMS

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ChatWidget's state bag has been decomposed into focused modules [ref:1], and the TUI no longer blocks on metadata hydration during large agent fan-outs [ref:2].

The ChatWidget refactor [1] is the first wave of a larger decomposition effort—transcript bookkeeping, turn lifecycle, queued input, and protocol dispatch were all tangled together in one file, making unrelated changes hard to reason about. That cleanup lands alongside a critical TUI fix [2] that was causing the UI to freeze during subagent spawns: the embedded app-server was getting hammered with metadata read requests that queued behind agent work. By replacing eager `thread/read` calls with lazy hydration, the event loop stays responsive even when the agent layer is swamped. On the UX side, hooks trust flow [3] now prompts users for review at startup instead of making them discover `/hooks` manually, and a single `t` shortcut trusts all pending hooks at once. The TUI also gained proper light-mode support [4]—selected rows on light backgrounds now use contrast-aware styling instead of bright cyan that vanished into the menu surface—and fixed a wrapping bug [5] that was mangling Markdown prose around URLs and indented content.

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What shipped in OpenAI on May 10, 2026?
ChatWidget's state bag has been decomposed into focused modules [ref:1], and the TUI no longer blocks on metadata hydration during large agent fan-outs [ref:2]. In total, 8 commits, 8 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenAI on May 10, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including etraut-openai, abhinav-oai, and fcoury-oai.
What were the notable OpenAI updates?
Split ChatWidget state into focused modules, Avoid blocking TUI on agent metadata hydration, and Improve hooks trust flow in TUI.