OpenAI announced the release of the Codex app for macOS, a powerful new desktop interface designed to help developers manage and collaborate with multiple AI agents more effectively. The Codex app serves as a command center for coordinating agent-driven workflows, enabling parallel work, project organization, and deeper integration of AI-assisted development across the software lifecycle.
The Codex app adds a dedicated workspace that supports simultaneous execution of multiple agents across projects, giving developers the ability to oversee complex tasks that can span hours or even days. By organizing agent threads by project, the application ensures continuity of context, facilitates review of agent-generated changes, and supports integrated diff commentary and code editing. Built-in support for worktrees enables agents to work on isolated copies of code without conflict, offering flexibility and safety when exploring different development paths.
OpenAI highlighted that the Codex app builds on the evolution of its Codex technology, which since its initial release has enabled developers to delegate complex, long-running tasks to AI. The app expands this vision by delivering an intuitive interface where users can coordinate multiple agents, review progress, and integrate output with existing development tools through seamless session history and configuration synchronization with the Codex CLI and IDE extensions.
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In addition to core agent coordination features, the Codex app introduces skills, which are bundled instructions, resources, and scripts that allow Codex to connect reliably with tools, run extended workflows, gather and synthesize information, and perform tasks beyond traditional code generation. These skills can be explicitly invoked or triggered automatically based on the nature of the task. The app also enables developers to experiment with creative applications, such as generating an interactive web game using combinations of skills for image generation and web development.
OpenAI has designed the Codex app to be secure by default and configurable by design, incorporating native, open-source sandboxing and system-level restrictions that limit agents to editing within defined project folders. Users can set project or team-level permissions to control elevated operations such as network access.
The Codex app is available immediately for macOS users. Eligible developers with ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, or Edu subscriptions can access Codex capabilities across the desktop app, CLI, IDE extensions, and cloud. For a limited time, the Codex app is also available to ChatGPT Free and Go users, and rate limits have been increased across plans to broaden access to advanced agent-driven workflows. Additional platform support, including Windows, is planned for future releases.
This is in line with the adoption of Codex models, which has seen overall usage more than double since mid-December, with over one million developers interacting with Codex capabilities. OpenAI will continue to improve multi-agent workflows, add more automation capabilities, and look into the possibility of executing background tasks using cloud triggers.