## Why MultiAgentV2 sessions need startup guidance that matches the role of the thread that is actually being created. Root agents and subagents have different responsibilities, and forked subagents can inherit parent rollout history. If the parent hint is carried into the child context, the child can see stale or conflicting developer guidance before its own session-specific context is added. ## What changed - Added `features.multi_agent_v2.root_agent_usage_hint_text` and `features.multi_agent_v2.subagent_usage_hint_text` config fields, including schema/config parsing support. - Injected the matching root or subagent hint into the initial context as its own developer message when `multi_agent_v2` is enabled. - Filtered configured MultiAgentV2 usage-hint developer messages out of forked parent history so a child thread receives fresh guidance for its own session source/config. - Added targeted coverage for config parsing, initial-context rendering, feature-config deserialization, and forked-history filtering. ## Context examples With this config: ```toml [features.multi_agent_v2] enabled = true root_agent_usage_hint_text = "Root guidance." subagent_usage_hint_text = "Subagent guidance." ``` A root thread initial context renders the root hint as a standalone developer message: ```text [developer] <existing developer context, when present> [developer] Root guidance. ``` A subagent thread initial context renders the subagent hint instead: ```text [developer] <existing developer context, when present> [developer] Subagent guidance. ``` When a subagent forks parent history, any parent developer message whose text exactly matches the configured MultiAgentV2 root or subagent hint is omitted from the forked history before the child receives its fresh subagent hint.
npm i -g @openai/codex
or brew install --cask codex
Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer.
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Quickstart
Installing and running Codex CLI
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# Install using npm
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