What changed in the major AI coding CLIs?

OpenAI released Codex v0.144.3 with remote control from phone, multi-agent handoffs, and DigitalOcean integration [4728]. The Codex Tag demo is nearing completion and will be part of the 0.3.0 release, rewritten to be lighter and delegate tasks to pidot.dev [4730]. A GitHub repo enabling Claude Code to use free models like DeepSeek and Kimi has gained 20,000 users, 26k stars, and 4k forks [4723]. Seedance 2.0 can now be called directly from Codex and Claude Code for video generation, with low API costs [4722]. Anthropic released Frontend Design, an official skill for Claude Code that enforces aesthetic direction before coding, with 161k stars [4721]. Anthropic standardizes Claude Fable 5 access at 50% usage for plans that use it most intensively, acknowledging frustration and promising continued capacity investment [4718]. Google Gemini CLI received multiple fixes: strip thoughts from scrubbed history turns [4717], preserve escape sequences in string literals [4716], make ~/.gitconfig read-only in macOS sandbox [4715], egress Cloud Run service skeleton [4714], resolve symbolic link directory escape in memory import processor [4713], implement Cloud Run webhook ingestion service [4712], resolve defensive path resolution for at-reference files [4711], enforce case-insensitive sensitive path blocklist [4710], fix no_proxy test [4709]. Codex desktop app received fixes: removed obsolete Codex workaround [4708], preserved composer caret after request updates [4707], resynced timeline correctly after reconnecting [4706], loaded more timeline history at once [4705], fixed project picker positioning crash [4704], kept permission auto-accept state separate per server [4703], fixed connected project picker positioning [4702], fixed spacing between model provider sections in Settings [4701], fix(core): tolerate AlreadyExists in FSUtil.ensureDir [4700], hid drawer close button on Windows [4699], stopped subagents from launching nested subagents by default with configurable subagent_depth limit [4698], home page command palette search can find and open sessions [4697], fixed custom agent selector visibility [4696], fixed startup readiness including WSL server loading [4695], improved dangerous-command detection [4694], fixed plan approvals without edits being labeled "(edited by user)" [4693], fixed hook callback timeout misreported as user rejection [4692], fixed session crash when tool result renderer returned bigint or plain text [4691], fixed paste markers leaking into external editors [4690], fixed rendered text fragment leaking into crash telemetry [4689], fixed ultracode keyword opt-in firing on non-human-originated input [4688], added startup warning for Write/NotebookEdit/Glob permission rules [4687], added live elapsed-time counter to collapsed tool summary line [4686], fixed edits that leave input as "?" being silently swallowed [4685], fixed file upload validation for DOS device suffixes and multiple hard links [4684], fixed Claude Code on Vertex and Bedrock attempting default Opus model at startup [4683], fixed auto mode overriding PreToolUse hook's ask decision for unsandboxed Bash [4682], fixed permission previews not neutralizing bidirectional-override characters [4681], fixed shell mode not executing commands containing file paths while autocomplete popup was open [4680], fixed SIGTERM during Bash tool orphaning process tree [4679], fixed continue:false hook's halt being dropped [4678], fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands without permission prompt [4677], added session-wide limit on WebSearch tool calls (default 200) [4676], added message.uuid, client_request_id, and tool_source to OpenTelemetry log events [4675], added ISO modified timestamp to memory file frontmatter [4674], fixed Bash permission checks for help/man commands [4673], fixed Bash permission checks for zsh variable subscripts [4672], fixed Bash permission checks for very long commands [4671], fixed Bash permission checks for file-descriptor redirect forms [4670], fixed permission-check bypass in Windows PowerShell 5.1 [4669], fixed single-segment dir/** allow rules [4668].[56]

OpenAI released Codex v0.144.3 with remote control, multi-agent handoffs, and DigitalOcean integration [4728]. Codex Tag demo nearing completion for v0.3.0 [4730]. GitHub repo for free models in Claude Code gained 20k users, 26k stars, 4k forks [4723]. Seedance 2.0 integration with Codex and Claude Code [4722]. Anthropic released Frontend Design skill for Claude Code [4721]. Anthropic standardized Fable 5 access at 50% usage [4718]. Google Gemini CLI received multiple fixes [4717-4709]. Codex desktop app received multiple fixes [4708-4668].[10]

The Codex Tag demo is nearing completion and will be part of the 0.3.0 release [4730]. Anthropic promises continued capacity investment for Fable 5 [4718].[2]