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The August 17 GitHub outage lasted 7 hours 47 minutes and disrupted PRs, Actions, APIs, and Copilot. If your coding agents treat GitHub as the control plane, you need a local fallback that can keep shipping for four hours.

codex exec is OpenAI's non-interactive mode to run Codex agents from scripts, CI and GitHub Actions. How to set it up safely with real flags and working YAML.

The Miasma worm has evolved from package registry poisoning to directly hijacking AI coding tools - if your team clones open-source repos and opens them in Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or VS Code, you may already be compromised.

The TanStack npm incident was not just a package-security story. It was a reminder that AI agent workflows inherit every weak trust boundary in CI.

Codex is no longer just a terminal agent. Here is when to use the Codex SDK, Codex CLI, or openai/codex-action, and how to avoid building the same agent loop three times.