Codex CLI 0.147.0 adds opt-in MCP 2026-07-28 support and Agent Plugins installation
OpenAI released Codex CLI 0.147.0, adding opt-in support for the 2026-07-28 revision covering paginated discovery, multi-round requests and non-blocking server startup. The same release adds installation of portable Agent Plugins and search across local, personal, workspace and remote plugin catalogs.
OpenAI released Codex CLI 0.147.0 on 2026-08-07, adding opt-in support for the 2026-07-28 revision. The release notes name three specific pieces: paginated discovery, multi-round requests, and non-blocking server startup. Support is opt-in rather than the default, so existing configurations are unaffected until a user turns it on.
The same release adds installation of portable Agent Plugins and search across local, personal, workspace and remote plugin catalogs, including MCP configuration parsing for Agent Plugins. Codex is one of the clients Vercel names as supporting that format.
Other items in the release include an --approve-for-me flag, importing
Cursor-managed skills, redaction of secrets and bearer tokens from
displayed commands, and a fix to terminal MCP initialization.
Related spec revisions
- MCP 2026-07-28 - current
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- openai/codex release page for tag rust-v0.147.0, published 2026-08-07T01:41:49Z - lists opt-in MCP 2026-07-28 support covering paginated discovery, multi-round requests and non-blocking server startup (#35724, #35725, #35590, #35742), Agent Plugins installation and catalog search (#36544, #36409, #36919, #36796), an --approve-for-me flag (#36373), and fixes redacting secrets and bearer tokens from displayed commands - accessed
- ChatGPT and Codex changelog - dates Codex CLI 0.147.0 to 2026-08-07 and 0.146.1 to 2026-08-05, with the Agent Plugins and MCP 2026-07-28 bullets - accessed