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Welcome to the show, and thanks to
Jellypod for helping make this daily show a

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reality.

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I'm Ethan Park, and today we are looking
at the June 8, 2026 release of Codex CLI

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version 0.138.0.

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Maya, if you are a terminal-first
developer, you've probably hit that wall where

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you're working on something complex in the
CLI, and suddenly you need a full GUI to

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parse the layout or dive deep.

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You usually have to manually copy-paste
your entire prompt history.

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But this new update introduces a single
command that changes that: slash app.

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So wait you just type slash app right into
your Active Terminal session and it hands

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everything off Exactly.

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It triggers a native deep-link on macOS or
Windows, launching Codex Desktop and

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passing the entire active thread state
over.

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No manual copy-pasting, no lost context
window, no friction.

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You just transition from the terminal to
the desktop app instantly.

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That is huge for Terminal Flow I can't
count how many times I've wanted to move to a

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richer UI but dreaded rebuilding the
context But wait what about local files

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especially images If I've got generated
assets or local mockups in my terminal

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thread does the desktop handoff actually
know where they are That actually ties into

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the second big update in 0.138.0.

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They fixed the image local file pathing.

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Before this, the model didn't always have
the exact local file paths of generated or

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attached images exposed to it.

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Now, those paths are explicitly passed in
the context.

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So, if your CLI session generated an asset
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`./assets/button_mock.png`, the model
knows that exact path.

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Ah so if you ask it to modify that image
or use it in a script it's not guessing the

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file name It can target assets buttonmock
png precisely because

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the path is part of its actual context
Precisely.

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It makes downstream automated edits highly
reliable because the pathing is explicit,

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whether you stay in the CLI or hand it off
to the desktop app.

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That makes sense Now let's talk about the
automation side I saw they did some work

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on the plugin CLI commands specifically
expanding the JSON output I'm guessing this

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is for the terminal power users who love
scripting everything Oh,

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absolutely.

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If you run `codex plugin list` or inspect
specific plugins now,

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you can append `--json`.

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This outputs highly structured data
representing your active MCP servers-Model

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Context Protocol servers-and default
prompt catalogs.

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So instead of trying to parse raw text
with grep or awk to see which MCP servers are

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connected you can just pipe the JSON
straight into jq That is going to make custom

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bootstrap scripts so much cleaner Exactly.

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You can programmatically query your tool
catalogs, verify which plugins are active,

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and pipe them directly into other
workflows.

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It's a huge win for local developer
environment automation.

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And they also tackled some of those
annoying paper cuts in the terminal UI itself

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Specifically the multi line paste bug in
slash goal edit I used to dread pasting

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structured YAML or markdown in there
because it would just submit early on the first

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new line Yeah, that was incredibly
frustrating.

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If you had a newline in your clipboard,
the buffer interpreted it as an immediate

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enter keypress.

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In 0.138.0, they've fixed the input
listener so multiline pastes in

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`/goal edit` are fully respected.

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It waits for you to actually hit enter to
submit.

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Finally And what about the reasoning
effort selection I remember some users

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on specific terminal emulators or Linux
setups had issues with the shortcut key

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bindings there Right, the default key
bindings for toggling reasoning effort would

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occasionally get swallowed by the terminal
multiplexer or OS-level hotkeys.

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To solve this, they introduced a fallback
Alt-binding.

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If your terminal swallows the primary
binding, you can hold Alt to force the

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selection menu.

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It's a small but vital safety valve for
compatibility.

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It shows they're really paying attention
to the messy reality of different terminal

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environments A great quality of life
update all around Definitely.

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That's Codex CLI 0.138.0.

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Go grab the update and try out `/app`
yourself.

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Thanks for listening, and we'll catch you
tomorrow.

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Bye everyone