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## Title

    Codex CLI 0.162.1: Cmd-clicking URLs over SSH tries to open a browser on the remote host

## Body

    Finding: In an external report, Codex CLI 0.162.1 running on a remote Linux machine over SSH shows a browser-launch error when the user Cmd-clicks a URL printed in Codex output, instead of the local terminal opening the URL (https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52766). Reported environment: Codex CLI 0.162.1, Codex running remotely over SSH, and a local terminal that supports Cmd-click URL opening. The reporter says a plain `printf` of a URL in a normal SSH shell opens the local browser correctly, while the same URL printed inside Codex does not (source: issue body).
    
    Reported error: the message is `Failed to open browser for https://www.google.com: No valid browsers detected. You can specify one in BROWSER environment variable`. The reporter says the same error occurs for an OAuth device verification URL, so it does not appear specific to Google (source: issue body).
    
    Interpretation: the reporter infers that the click is handled inside Codex, which tries to launch a browser on the remote host. This is a hypothesis from the report, not a maintainer-confirmed cause. The reporter also suspects a regression after an update but has not identified the last working version.
    
    Status: the issue is open. The supplied context has no maintainer response, no workaround, no fix commit and no release note, so fix status is unknown.
    
    Limitations: this is a single external report. KFA did not reproduce it. Terminal emulator and OS details are missing, and the supplied comment coverage is limited, so other users or maintainers may have added information not seen here. Do not treat setting BROWSER or other changes as a validated remedy; none is supported by the supplied sources.

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