Codex CLI 0.117.0 Ships Today — Plugins, Multi-Agent v2 & App-Server Upgrades
OpenAI shipped Codex CLI v0.117.0 today, and it's one of the more architecturally meaningful releases the tool has seen. The headline feature is plugins becoming a genuine first-class citizen: they now sync automatically at startup, can be browsed and managed via a /plugins command, and come with cleaner install, remove, auth, and setup flows. If you've been waiting for Codex to feel more like an extensible platform than a single-purpose coding agent, this is the release that starts delivering on that.
The other major change is what OpenAI is calling multi-agent v2 — sub-agents now communicate via readable, path-based addresses (think /root/agent_a) with structured messaging between them. That's a meaningful architecture shift away from ad hoc inter-agent communication and toward something that can actually scale into composable workflows. App-server clients also gain the ability to send shell commands, watch filesystem changes, and connect to remote WebSocket servers with bearer-token auth — rounding out the picture of Codex as infrastructure, not just a tool.
Smaller but welcome polish touches include a /title terminal-title picker and a cleaner image workflow that lets you generate, view, and reopen images directly from the TUI. Taken together, the plugin system and multi-agent v2 addressing represent the architecture that makes ambitious "Codex handles your whole dev workflow" use cases actually tractable — not just a marketing pitch. Install with npm install -g @openai/[email protected].