August 25, 2026 / Daily Edition / 3 stories in this issue
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Codex Puts a Broker Between the Agent and the Secret

A newly merged Codex change says a project file can describe the work, but it should not be able to switch on the credential broker or choose the provider context that reaches an agent shell.

Photocopied marker diagram showing a repository config card barred from a credential broker, with trusted configuration feeding masked credentials to a sandbox shell and a caveat that the change is main-branch evidence, not a release.
Diagram Punkthe repository is not the credential boundary.
repo openai/codex evidence
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