No More "Wait, Stop, Start Over": Codex 0.163 Makes Steering a Running Agent Mid-Response the Default
OpenAI's Codex CLI 0.163.0 shipped on October 16. Real-time steering—sending a follow-up to a responding agent to change its course on the spot—is now the default. The release also adds parallel execution of read-only tools and searchable settings, with caveats attached to the default switch and to





