codex `update` starts conversation instead of updating

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 8, 2025 by collinbentley1 Closed Oct 27, 2025

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.14.0

Which model were you using?

codex-mini-latest

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Install non-latest version of codex-cli
  2. Run codex update as specified in README.md
  3. Observe update is passed as user input, rather than triggering update

What is the expected behavior?

codex update begins CLI update

What do you see instead?

Collin@Collins-Laptop ~ % codex --version
codex-cli 0.14.0
Collin@Collins-Laptop ~ % codex update

OpenAI Codex v0.14.0 (research preview)

codex session a7ed2520-a4f3-407f-8e1c-fc53a6ecb716
workdir: /Users/Collin
model: codex-mini-latest
provider: openai
approval: on-request
sandbox: workspace-write (network access enabled)
reasoning effort: medium
reasoning summaries: auto

user
update

codex
Sure thing 😊 What would you like to update today? ✨

Additional information

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