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Codex Drops the 'Plan' Nudge

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copyberry Eric Traut pakrym-oai
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copyberry @copyberry 3 cited Eric Traut @etraut-openai 1 cited pakrym-oai @pakrym-oai 1 cited

OpenAI rolled back the Plan mode prompt in Codex, quietly removing the 'Create a plan?' nudge from the composer and the friction it brought to drafting.

OpenAI stripped the Plan mode composer nudge out of Codex today [1], so drafts containing the word 'plan' no longer trigger that persistent prompt or its Escape-to-dismiss behavior. The same change landed twice [2], one from an engineer and one from a bot, which is a good reminder to check your merge queue for duplicates. More meaningful for state fidelity, message truncation now preserves passthrough content metadata and classifications as `AnnotatedContent` [3], so positions stay in sync after the token budget cuts in. Guardian review threads finally get their own thread source, `guardian_review`, instead of being lumped in with generic subagents [4], which cleans up analytics and rollout attribution. And Codex now treats `cua_repl` like `node_repl` for Guardian evidence gathering and computer-use policy [5], so REPL-backed tools behave consistently across the stack.

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What shipped in OpenAI on August 24, 2026?
OpenAI rolled back the Plan mode prompt in Codex, quietly removing the 'Create a plan?' nudge from the composer and the friction it brought to drafting. In total, 22 commits, 22 pull requests, and 2 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenAI on August 24, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including Eric Traut, pakrym-oai, and copyberry.
What were the notable OpenAI updates?
Remove the Plan mode composer nudge (#40200), Remove the Plan mode composer nudge, and Preserve content metadata when truncating messages (#40264).
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Safety identifiers reach images, plugin approvals bind to contents 93 shipped Credential masking lands in Codex, Live gains Decisions across both SDKs 100 shipped Codex stabilizes environment tools, python adds residency options 135 shipped openai-python restores streaming connection reuse, browser and computer toolsets land in both SDKs 123 shipped

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Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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