#coding agents

Codex shipped its biggest infra batch in May 2026.

Mobile access (preview) — manage Codex sessions from ChatGPT on iOS and Android. Your phone is a control surface, not a code editor. Diffs, approvals, model switching, all in real time. Code stays on the host.

Hooks (GA) — inject custom scripts at 6 points in the agentic loop. Scan commands for credentials before execution. Auto-approve trusted actions. Log everything.

Access tokens (Business/Enterprise) — run Codex in CI/CD pipelines with workspace identity. No interactive login.

The pattern: each coding agent gets deeper in its own stack. The cross-agent problem — unified cost, fallback, one API key — stays unsolved until you route them through one endpoint.

The coding agent market just got more fragmented.

Three platforms shipped infra updates in May 2026, on different dates:

Codex got real Windows sandboxing — OS-level isolation with dedicated user accounts and firewall rules (May 13).

Cursor launched cloud agent environments — multi-repo, Dockerfile config, scoped secrets, audit logging (May 13).

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans (May 6).

Each agent is better at its own job. The cross-agent problem — unified cost, fallback, single API key — remains unsolved.

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