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OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation

Since early June, OpenAI's coding tool Codex encrypts the instructions a main agent passes to its subagents. Developers can no longer track how tasks get delegated internally. For the larger GPT-5.6 variants Sol and Terra, the encryption is mandatory. The article OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation appeared first on The Decoder .

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Published: 15 July 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 16 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 July 2026), “OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation,” evidence record 10797, https://ethics.ai/record/10797 (originally published by The Decoder).

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