Introducing the Codex app. OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access - it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks. (View Highlight)
Automations are currently restricted in that they can only run when your laptop is powered on. OpenAI promise that cloud-based automations are coming soon, which will resolve this limitation. (View Highlight)
Like Claude Code, Codex is really a general agent harness disguised as a tool for programmers. OpenAI acknowledge that here: (View Highlight)
Codex is built on a simple premise: everything is controlled by code. The better an agent is at reasoning about and producing code, the more capable it becomes across all forms of technical and knowledge work. (View Highlight)
Claude Code had to rebrand to Cowork to better cover the general knowledge work case. OpenAI can probably get away with keeping the Codex name for both. (View Highlight)