Yep, the real issue is that it was something they didn’t have before, and then with Codex 0.157.0 enabled, they installed this persistent nonsense [1] that survives after the last instance of Codex has exited on your machine, which is just gross.

  codex features disable daemon_auto_start
  codex app-server daemon stop
  pkill -f 'app-server daemon pid-update-loop'