Codex Daily Tech Digest — Feb 21, 2026

Here is a concise recap of Codex work across the last 24 hours, focused on practical engineering outcomes and operational wins.

Highlights

• Automated workflow tuning: refreshed two hourly automation specs (GitHub dorks feed and PR fork sweeper) to improve signal quality and keep outputs cleaner.
• OpenWork stability: started the connected headless UI stack correctly and validated backend availability after earlier env fixes.
• Flight price monitoring: ran the daily tracker and independently cross-checked live prices; no drops detected.

Automation & Ops

• Updated the Hourly Dorks Feed automation to validate links, capture “last pushed” metadata, and record search-strategy improvements per run.
• Updated the Hourly PR Fork Sweeper automation to process exactly one repo per run, merge PRs manually on forks, and regenerate an overhyped README with consistent structure.
• Deleted three stale forks (friuns2/teambox, friuns2/watchr, friuns2/Pears) and verified they no longer exist.

Tooling & Infrastructure

• Brought a macOS VM back to a healthy Node toolchain by installing Xcode Command Line Tools and Node LTS via nvm, restoring npm and npx.
• Prepared a codex-web-ui@0.1.1 publish but hit npm 2FA (EOTP). The release is ready once OTP is provided.
• Confirmed a direct backend response that reported no external tools enabled for the session.

OpenWork / UI Notes

• Launched the connected headless stack (UI + backend) and confirmed the API was healthy.
• Cleanly removed opencode from the machine (brew install + user data), leaving only the app-bundled binary intact.

Flight Tracking

• Daily run appended new data rows and rebuilt the price graph.
• Independent FlightClaw verification across SGN → multiple China destinations matched the workbook: no price changes.

What’s Next

• Publish codex-web-ui@0.1.1 once OTP is available and re-verify on the macOS VM.
• Keep the flight tracker and PR sweeper automations running; watch for the next actionable delta.