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HN jumped straight to a sharper question than the score itself: was this a model win or a harness win? Dirac’s 65.2% TerminalBench run turned into a broader argument about context curation, AST-guided search, and why coding agents still live or die on tooling decisions.

OpenAI announced Codex for Open Source on March 6, 2026, pitching the program as practical support for maintainers who review code, manage large repositories, and handle security work. The program combines API credits, six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, and conditional Codex Security access for eligible projects.