Codex CLI 0.157.0 silently installs a persistent daemon
Since version 0.157.0, OpenAI's Codex CLI leaves a background daemon running after every interactive session that survives terminal closure and self-updates hourly. Users filed issue #48195 on September 25, 2026, demanding the behavior be opt-in.
- The daemon copies ~374 MB of the package to ~/.codex/packages/ and runs from that copy
- An updater checks for updates hourly and can kill active agent turns
- Running app-server daemon stop does not terminate the pid-update-loop process
- Auto-start can only be disabled manually via daemon_auto_start = false
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