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5 things worth your attention · 2026-10-18 · RSS · JSON

SKIP · Plugins

Ponytail: useful, but not a token saver

Judge it on code size, not tokens. Viral videos claim 50%+ token savings; the top reply cites the docs saying that is not its purpose.

Reported 3,629 -> 490 lines on one task; the savings claim is disputed.

NEWS · Community

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

364 points, 313 comments on Hacker News.

SKIP · Plugins

Treat "unlimited free usage" routers with suspicion

A plugin-stack video promoting one drew a 'do not install' reply; verify yourself.

NEW · Codex

Codex 0.163.0: Open `/config` to search preferences across categories, change supported settings immediately, and see which changes require a restart.

Send a follow-up while Codex is responding to steer it immediately. Interrupting a turn also stops active Code Mode cells and their nested tool calls. · Configure a leader key in `/keymap`. The default is `Ctrl+X`, shortcut hints stay open until you choose or cancel, and voice mute moves to `F9`.

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`/effort` and `/fast` in agent view to set what new sessions start with; a bare `/model`, `/effort` or `/fast` there now opens a picker

How the Claude Code team does code review

`/usage` warnings for max effort, workflows, always-on context and large tool results

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

Ponytail: useful, but not a token saver

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Treat "unlimited free usage" routers with suspicion

support for rewriting a workflow agent's `prompt` and `model` in the `agent.spawn` mod hook, which could only refuse workflow agents before

the `prompt.change` mod hook, raised when the prompt box's text changes without a typed edit: a recalled history entry, a clear, an undo, or a plugin's fill

Codex 0.163.0: Open `/config` to search preferences across categories, change supported settings immediately, and see which changes require a restart.

the skill's frontmatter, source, plugin name and file path to what a mod's `skill.prompt` hook receives

`--disallow-tools` and a `disallowed_tools` case field to `claude plugin eval` to keep specific built-in tools, such as Agent, out of eval runs

a `queue` door to the `session.append` mod hook, so a mod can make the transcript's queue records differ from the prompt as sent

a note in `/plugin` and `claude plugin validate` naming a mod's hooks that are skipped where an organization manages Claude Code

`rows` to a mod's `Input`: a text field of several lines in the terminal, where Enter submits and Shift+Enter or a backslash before Enter starts a new line

`virtualText` to a mod's prompt decorations: text drawn in the prompt box that never enters the draft or the submitted prompt

a `dir` prop on a mod's `Text` for right-to-left text: on Windows and in VS Code's terminal its rows read in that direction and sit flush right