Codex CLI encryption change wipes inter-agent task history from local logs
A pull request merged on June 5, 2026 (PR #26210) introduced encryption for inter-agent message payloads in OpenAI's Codex CLI, affecting builds beyond version 0.137.0 with MultiAgentV2 enabled. The change causes the plain-text content field in InterAgentCommunication messages to be stored as an empty string, with the actual message saved only in an encrypted blob. As a result, developers can no longer read what tasks a parent agent delegated to subagents via spawn_agent, send_message, or followup_task calls without decrypting the payload. User ignatremizov filed issue #28058 on June 13, 2026, in the openai/codex repository, highlighting that the change fails to separate model-facing encryption from human-readable audit logs. A proposed fix would add a separate unencrypted audit field, but as of the report's publication the issue remained open with no linked fix pull request.
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