Codex for (almost) everything

Source: OpenAI Blog

Overview

We’re releasing a major update to Codex, making it a more powerful partner for the more than 3 million developers who use it every week to accelerate work across the full software development lifecycle.

New Capabilities

• Background computer use – Codex can see, click, and type with its own cursor, allowing it to operate any app on your computer. Multiple agents can work in parallel without interfering with your own tasks.
• Web integration – An in‑app browser lets you comment directly on pages to give precise instructions to the agent, enabling frontend and game development workflows.
• Image generation – Codex can now use the gpt-image-1.5 model to generate and iterate on images, useful for product concepts, mockups, and game visuals.
• Memory preview – A new memory feature lets Codex retain useful context from previous interactions, such as personal preferences, corrections, and gathered information, improving speed and quality on future tasks.
• Proactive suggestions – Leveraging project context, plugins, and memory, Codex can propose work to continue where you left off, e.g., identifying open Google Docs comments, pulling relevant Slack or Notion context, and presenting a prioritized action list.

Plugins

More than 90 additional plugins are now available, combining skills, app integrations, and MCP servers to give Codex more ways to gather context and act across your tools. Notable new plugins include:

• Atlassian Rovo (JIRA management)
• CircleCI
• CodeRabbit
• GitLab Issues
• Microsoft Suite
• Neon by Databricks
• Remotion
• Render
• Superpowers

App Enhancements

• Developer workflow support – Review GitHub PR comments, view multiple files and terminals, run multiple terminal tabs, and connect to remote devboxes via SSH (alpha).
• Rich file previews – Open PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, and docs directly in the sidebar with rich previews.
• Summary pane – Track agent plans, sources, and artifacts in a dedicated pane.
• Automation improvements – Re‑use existing conversation threads, schedule future work, and automatically wake up to continue long‑term tasks across days or weeks.
• Team automations – Automate tasks such as opening pull requests, following up on Slack, Gmail, and Notion conversations.

Availability

• The updates are rolling out today to Codex desktop app users signed in with ChatGPT.
• Personalization features (context‑aware suggestions and memory) will roll out soon to Enterprise, Edu, EU, and UK users.
• Computer‑use capabilities are initially available on macOS and will expand to EU and UK users shortly.

Getting Started

If you’ve been using Codex in the terminal or editor, try it across the rest of your workflow. If you haven’t tried Codex yet, download the app and get started.

Impact Since Launch

In the year since Codex launched, developers have expanded their usage from writing code to:

• Understanding systems
• Gathering context
• Reviewing work
• Debugging issues
• Coordinating with teammates
• Keeping longer‑running work moving

Mission

Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity, narrowing the gap between what people can imagine and what they can build. This release brings Codex closer to the tools, workflows, and decisions involved in building software, with much more to come soon.