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Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

486 points by mikeevans 5mo ago

mindmesh 5mo ago
The ability to unblock or redirect longer-running work from a phone seems underrated. Curious how often people will actually manage active coding threads this way.
Riany 5mo ago
The best part is you don't have to stay at home waiting codex thinking, you can go out grab a coffee while connect your Codex and ask it to work
- refactor_master 5mo ago
  Surely you mean grab a coffee and sit back down at your desk in your corporate office, because working remotely while your agent also does so is just preposterous.
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Alifatisk 5mo ago
Whats crazier is that Codex is free. I thought I had to pay to even try it out but nope, you can use the desktop app or cli for free, its apparently included in the free plan. You just have to sign in to your ChatGPT account. Of course I am aware that the caveat here is that all my interaction is part of training, but I’m fine with that. Even Qwen Cli discontinued the free plan.
- throwaway613746 5mo ago
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- Rover222 5mo ago
  I think it's free for about 2 useful requests and then you have to upgrade or wait?
  - osiris970 5mo ago
    So basically a 20$ Claude plan lmao
    - replwoacause 5mo ago
      I stopped using my Claude subscription because it became so prohibitive. Back to ChatGPT and Codex full time and been pretty happy. I miss the tone/writing style of Claude, but don't miss the frustration of being told I've reached my plan limits in a comically short amount of time.
      - Razengan 5mo ago
        on Codex I ran into limits maybe like 2 times in 3 months, after doing several "upgrade this experimental game to my latest shared framework" passes on 5.5 Extra High
        ssl-3 5mo ago
        On which plan? I can go through a 5-hour limit with a $20/mo Plus subscription in a few minutes with 5.5 Extra High. This causes me to reserve the latest/best rev for the harder problems. 5.5 really does seem to be very superior to 5.4, but it's also very expensive to run: The gas gauge moves fast. It's not very clearly defined whether 5.5 will cost less to get a problem solved quickly, or if a bunch of automatic iterations of 5.4 will solve it less-expensively. Both are often frustrating to me on the $20 plan. (Also: Are you sure you're seeing it right? 5.5 has been in the wild for less than a month, so far. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ )
        Razengan 5mo ago
- thorum 5mo ago
  I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.
  - jwilliams 5mo ago
    Are you specifically pointing at a different experience between free + paid? Or just that the free version is unimpressive? I'm using paid on TypeScript and it's genuinely terrific. Subjectively I think it has the edge over Opus. I'd be surprised if OpenAI is hamstringing the free version. That would seem crazy from a GTM PoV. If anything the labs seem to throttle the heavy paid users.
    - fragmede 5mo ago
      Yes, the free version doesn't have access to the same models that the paid does.
      - debian3 5mo ago
        You have access to 5.5 xhigh on free. Which model is missing except the 5.3 that run on cerebras?
      - wahnfrieden 5mo ago
        It's only missing the trash models. Likely a user skill issue.
  - wahnfrieden 5mo ago
    Post your chat session
    - ssl-3 5mo ago
      Can Codex chats be shared? (This is a genuine question; so far, I've only used Codex in CLI on Linux.)
- firesteelrain 5mo ago
  How much better is it than Claude? I have both but Claude sucks up so many tokens.
  - bobbylarrybobby 5mo ago
    5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.
    - Leynos 5mo ago
      They've added a new goal mode that might help with that
    - ymolodtsov 5mo ago
      The main difference is in the frontend skills. GPT produces terrible design. What I do these days is ask Opus to produce an HTML mockup, then feed it to Codex.
    - auggierose 5mo ago
      I have not had problems with long goals. I let it chomp for 40 minutes on a proof in my custom theorem prover (xhigh fast), and it got there. Very happy with Codex, I ditched Claude for it.
  - yieldcrv 5mo ago
    Less gibliterrating and more doing Very fast
  - stldev 5mo ago
    I switched some time after Anthropic bricked their models with adaptive thinking. It's a legit mystery to me how people are still using CC professionally. Codex is far less frustrating and manages context better. It's also costing me about 1/3rd as much as Opus 4.7 on CC.
- orionsbelt 5mo ago
  First hit is free… got to get you hooked.
- beering 5mo ago
  Can’t you just turn off training on your data in the settings?
- atorodius 5mo ago
  WDYM it is free? You hit rate limits after anout 10 messages (side note I like that they rate limit messages and not tokens. at least it does not just stop mid reply)
tekacs 5mo ago
It's refreshing that unlike Anthropic's Remote Control, this actually... works. Feels like a testament to the value in taking time and doing it properly. Now if only codex got its 1M token context window back. --- Edit: Hmmm. Maybe I spoke too soon. Sigh. Definitely _more_ reliable by far overall, but still have queued messages with responses on my phone that don't show up on my computer, and responses that don't show up on my phone. Edit 2: New threads created from my phone seem to have a little stall-out, but ones that are underway are behaving reasonably well.
- 20kleagues 5mo ago
  Out of curiosity, what issues did you face with remote control on claude? I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well (bar the issues when my Mac would sleep and then the session would disconnect, but that's an issue on my end).
  - RayVR 5mo ago
    My own experience has been that it works for about five minutes before it just disconnects or hangs. I’ve never been able to use it successfully.
  - tekacs 5mo ago
    Myriad, to be honest. I find it to just constantly be in a 'torn' state, the UI is very mushy on mobile with a lot of the affordances from desktop missing, and... it's distinctly less useful when you can't... edit, rewind, start a new thread, etc.
  - hamza_q_ 5mo ago
    Made a menu bar app you may find useful for MacBook sleep prevention, even when the lid is closed: https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil
    - cryozero 5mo ago
      Hey buddy, I submitted a pull request to you to support Intel chips https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil/pull/3 https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil/pull/3
schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
This is really useful for when you just need to approve plans or make small decisions.
stavros 5mo ago
The best way I've found to work with LLMs is another OpenAI project, Symphony (which I implemented for Linear/GitHub and OpenCode[0]). It integrates with your issue tracker and makes the tracker the UI for the LLM. It also clones the repo for every ticket, and can set up fixtures/etc. I can work on multiple items at a time, which is fantastic because otherwise you have to wait for the LLMs a lot. [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony
vohk 5mo ago
Dang, I thought this was going to be integration for Codex Cloud, not the (still not available for Linux) Codex App. Not even Codex CLI, alas. You can still access the Cloud option from a mobile browser well enough but I prefer an app UI for poking at the things on the go.
- tekacs 5mo ago
  You can do this from the CLI - `codex remote-control` works on Linux (I have no affiliation, just something I noticed). They might just not have cut a new build yet, today. It 'works' on master, but the mobile app thinks that your build is outdated (v0.0.0) if you build from master without overriding version, so probably easiest to wait until they cut a build if they haven't.
  - asadm 5mo ago
    thanks. i dont use the app and so this is cool
  - vohk 5mo ago
    Oh, that's promising, thanks! I've just been using the npm version.
  - embedding-shape 5mo ago
    > You can do this from the CLI - `codex remote-control` works on Linux (I have no affiliation, just something I noticed). Woah, hadn't seen this before! Off-topic, how long compile times do people have for codex-rs in openai/codex? Even my very beefy computer takes like 30 minutes to compile in release mode, makes me wonder why it's so slow and how this TUI got so large. But then I remember, agents like to write a lot of code, compilers get slower when they have to compile a lot of code :)
    - tekacs 5mo ago
      Try turning off LTO. Their default codex-rs/Cargo.toml uses `lto = "fat"`, which is... expensive and slow and... you really really don't need it for a local build that you're not distributing. In my experience, although the build is a little slow, it's that LTO step that takes a million years.
asadm 5mo ago
I use Termius on my phone to remote and make agent do stuff while i chill or am on road. This seems useful too.
- sambaumann 5mo ago
  I also do this, but I find the terminal ergonomics are a little awkward on mobile. I do think termius is the best version of it I've used though
mv4 5mo ago
Can someone recommend an IDE that can be used with a self-hosted model (via OpenAI or similar)?
- aiscoming 5mo ago
  vs code supports local models (bring your own key/model) you need a model server - ollama/llama.cpp/lm studio
  - no-name-here 5mo ago
    > bring your own key Do you mean supporting oai-compatible api URLs in copilot? If so then you need either VS Code Insiders, or a VS Code extension I believe?
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- suyash 5mo ago
  Look up OpenCode
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Squab 5mo ago
friends, you don’t have to always be productive. leave the agent on the computer and take care of yourself.
- jorl17 5mo ago
  For many people, that's exactly why this is useful: less time on the computer, more time doing other things and occasionally checking in. In those scenarios, the goal is not "work at any time" but to "be anywhere at any time", or, rather, to "be able to work from anywhere, doing anything". Sort of....I guess.
  - yhgyy 5mo ago
    I love how all these software engineers are willingly walking into a productivity trap where they will be exploited. I’m not a swe but damn, I’d hate to be one.
iridione 5mo ago
This is neat! Now I'm curious, what's left to innovate in the coding agent space? Sure there are the usual suspects like maintenance, security, reliability and other scalability improvements and looks like they will be addressed in the next year or two.
- thornewolf 5mo ago
  there is something "wrong" with the ux that is hard to pin down. these things generate even text summaries more rapidly than i can read them. i need a better method for dumping info into my brain + dynamic control (if necessary)
  - ssl-3 5mo ago
    When I take time to read all of the output, I often find that it's mostly noise. I don't like noise so I usually don't bother. But a person can use subagents, if they want, to filter that down. This burns tokens in a big hurry, but I think subagents can be arbitrary local commands (eg, a local LLM). Or, you know: Just slow down. :) It doesn't always have to be a race, does it?
  - jpalomaki 5mo ago
    Tell it to create html summaries with diagrams and sidebar for navigation. Or ask Codex to create image that explains xyz.
- ukuina 5mo ago
  Is texting your Coding Agent really the final form? Something that watches your interactions or process execution to surface improvements, or whips up prototypes while you brainstorm seems like the next step.
  - satvikpendem 5mo ago
    Not sure why this was flagged, this makes sense but only if inference gets sufficiently cheap. It would be awesome to see a bunch of interactive prototypes and iterate on the UX before ever building the full app. Historically that's been somewhat difficult even with UX designers.
jumploops 5mo ago
I’ve been using Codex from my phone for the past couple of months (through a tunnel, not this app). I was initially quite excited, but I’ve found the results are less than great compared to being at a keyboard. Something about the smaller screen size and/or lack of keyboard causes me to direct the agent less, which in turn creates more tech debt/code churn/etc. Maybe I’m just showing my age, and I should practice voice dictation or something more, but my thoughts flow faster and more clearly on a keyboard (less ums).
- fowlie 5mo ago
  I've been trying voxtype (using whisper models) lately, and to my surprise all my ums are filtered out. It's really good now actually!
  - esperent 5mo ago
    I don't see any way to use that on a phone.
- aiscoming 5mo ago
  the ums are exactly the sign that you speak much faster than you type, so you need a pause for your thoughts to catch up
- keyle 5mo ago
  I'm not sure I follow, you develop code on a remote machine by speaking to your phone and are unimpressed by the result?
  - selcuka 5mo ago
    They are unimpressed by their (current) ability to use it, not the technology.
  - jumploops 5mo ago
    It's not that I'm unimpressed by the results, it's that I think I'm saving time by pushing the agent along remotely, but the reality is that my messages to the agent(s) end up being a lot shorter, which inevitably leaves more up for interpretation. Don't get me wrong, I still use Codex (and sometimes Claude Code) remotely every day, and am overall excited for this release, it's just that the benefit wasn't as high as I had initially hoped. Part of this is due to the models getting better (no need to prod along with "continue"), and part of this is the nature of how I use my phone (short bursts of attention). But again, maybe I'm just old and prefer big screens with a keyboard.
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fHr 5mo ago
rust and opensource W
AIMC 5mo ago
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reassess_blind 5mo ago
Is there a native way to work remotely with Claude/Codex on a local folder or git repo on your main machine without having to connect it to GitHub? For creating apps for personal use I’d rather just keep the files local. Edit: Running into issues setting it up on Windows. There's no "/remote-control" command in the CLI, so I installed the Windows Codex app. Then I updated the iOS app which now has the "Codex" feature in the sidebar, which should allow remote access to the Windows machine's instance - except it doesn't connect. The iOS app shows my desktop's hostname, so it knows there's an instance there, but refuses to connect. Issues like this would persuade a lot of folks to switch back to Claude.
- Razengan 5mo ago
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- iamjs 5mo ago
  I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.
  - DonsDiscountGas 5mo ago
    It's supposed to. I've always found it buggy and unreliable but maybe that's just me. (This command exists in Claude btw not sure about Codex)
    - rovr138 5mo ago
      You can also connect remotely. Tailscale to connect to your network/machine. Then use SSH to login. Then use tmux to persist the session even if you log out.
    - rovr138 5mo ago
      Looks like codex has it too since last week, https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.130.0 https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.130.0
  - maille 5mo ago
impulser_ 5mo ago
Say what you want about OpenAI, but their software is actually pretty dam good especially compared to Anthropic and Google. Anthropic is just sloppy, and Google just doesn't live on this planet. Both of the Codex apps are very good. I tried this out and it works significantly better than Claude's remote control in fact the first few times I tried Claude's remote control it didn't even work and to this day is very buggy.
- haint_ 5mo ago
  I use remote-control every day and haven't had many issues with it, aside from the fact that the mobile app being pretty limited, e.g there are no prompt suggestions like slash commands and skills, everything in the textbox is just a raw string. You also can’t start a new session directly from the app (have to SSH into the host manually to do that) Other than those limitations, the connection has been very stable for me, definitely more reliable than alternatives like happy.engineering or Omnara. What’s been buggy for you specifically?
cyanydeez 5mo ago
opencode behind a nginx proxy with a standard user/password is sufficiently powerful. You can also upgrade to https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server/ https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server/ and run any vscode plugins; opencode's plugin is pretty rudimentry but cline has been making a lot of strides. You can run your local LLM and just connect the docker containers. I'm paranoid of being disconnected from the LLM, so I never run any of this on the same machine, so orchestrating a docker-compose file that provides the necessary services is important. I'm still trying to find a good remote file system to loop into the setup for improved switching between cli and these web containers.
Razengan 5mo ago
Codex has been great in the last 3-4 months I've been using it, almost exclusively to review existing GDScript code, and this was the feature I wanted most, because with gamedev you get the best ideas when you're out and about or in bed :) Claude on the other hand has been jank all around from the UX to the UI to the AI itself that it's baffling how it's more popular here on HN: https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png Sadly this remote control feature doesn't seem to be for Mac to Mac yet? I love the MacBook Neo as a "thin client" for AI and keep the MacBook Pro at home/hotel, and it would be nice to share Codex desktop sessions (without SSH → resume link)
- Razengan 5mo ago
  > Sadly this remote control feature doesn't seem to be for Mac to Mac yet? Oh there is a "Control other devices" option in Settings → Connections, but it wasn't working in the build at the time of the original post
ahmadyan 5mo ago
i'm not sure if i'm hallucinating, but i swear i had codex in the chatGPT app from long time ago (like the original codex on the web). they added some new stuff, like remote control to wherever the desktop codex app is running, but these companies need to work much more on their press releases.
- wahnfrieden 5mo ago
  That was cloud codex. Not comparable
miohtama 5mo ago
I have been using Omnara now some months, on desktop and mobile. It's web/mobile remote for Claude and Codex. I can do some tasks on mobile, especially if they are follow up and steering only, greatly increasing productivity as you can keep working whilst in transit, etc.
sbinnee 5mo ago
I don't like this direction. For accessibility aspect, sure it is good. But Codex is a coding product. I am increasingly concerned of lack of reviewing practice. I doubt that a mobile app is good for reviewing code changes. > Stay connected to active work from anywhere ... (and anytime because it's on your phone). No thanks.
randomsimon 5mo ago
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jsemrau 5mo ago
I don't understand OpenAI's product strategy.
- hello8402 5mo ago
  > I don't understand OpenAI's product strategy. Neither does OpenAI.
- GolfPopper 5mo ago
  It seems pretty simple: 1) Keep getting investors to give them money. 2) Convince the right people that OpenAI is "critical to national security" so that when 1 runs out, they can get bailed out by the government. Everything else is just set dressing.
- sumedh 5mo ago
  What part is confusing?
- joshka 5mo ago
  People ask for a thing they want, someone there has codex build it. Repeat.
fa3ax 5mo ago
They needed to announce something after the Anthropic slop rewrite of Bun. In an ideal world the would allocate 50% of compute to find errors in that rewrite and publish how bad Claude is, but that would undermine confidence in slop in general so that is not going to happen.
Loranubi 5mo ago
macOS only so far. "Windows is coming soon"
breatheoften 5mo ago
This is super nice!!!!!!
breatheoften 5mo ago
This is extremely what Ive been wanting -- I had previously thought about using one of the hackish apps that try to deliver this experience - or spinning up something for this myself ... - but integrating this directly is definitely the right way to provide the best system and product experience -- and this seems to work out of the box exactly as I would want!
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boodleboodle 5mo ago
Could Codex CLI get this support also? I am sure a lot of us are running remote linux machines with Nvidia GPUs, with codex CLI running
- beering 5mo ago
  I think this is a thing, maybe need to upgrade your codex cli.
  - boodleboodle 5mo ago
    Seems we must have a macOS Codex App running to enable linux box - phone communication
- joquarky 5mo ago
  I got it to connect by starting codex CLI with `codex remote-control` but it seems to be limited/sandboxed to a specific directory. In my case, I run all coding agents under a specific user, `agent`, and when I access it over remote from my phone, I seem to be limited to the working directory `/var/lib/agent/Documents/Code` with no obvious way to change this. It won't let me go to my existing project directories (including the directory where I started `codex remote-control`). I haven't tried symbolic links or anything complicated yet, as this is mostly just a novelty to me.
throwatdem12311 5mo ago
> Stay connected to active work from anywhere And here I thought AI was gonna automate the world and we were gonna work less. Turns out you’re gonna work 24/7 no matter where you are!
- teaspoon 5mo ago
  Why not work the same amount and be at your desk less?
  - throwatdem12311 5mo ago
    The same reason I don’t have social media apps on my phone.
  - sheept 5mo ago
    your boss will probably prefer the colleague that can now work more, and isn't occasionally absent from their desk
- mifydev 5mo ago
  This is a very myopic and unnecessary cynical sentiment. It's not about you - agents just need to run without your computer being on all the time. Coding is a background task that needs to run unattended now.
  - throwatdem12311 5mo ago
    This is absolutely not true. I run dozens of Opus agents all day and they need so much constant attention and babysitting (lest everything turn to sh*t) that I would not qualify it anywhere close to “background”. And I’m sure as hell not wrangling these things from my *phone*.
    - EGreg 5mo ago
      What would it take to remove yourself from the loop so your agents can go parabolic and kick off the singularity? (Have them cover their own token costs, hehe).
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Jimidesuu 5mo ago
So Codex is also heading towards 'portability' and I can see that here but I bet this will take time before it's cleanly optimized for mobile hard use
m3kw9 5mo ago
Buggy af though
charlie90 5mo ago
Nice. Next step is giving codex/Claude Code local device control...problem is the current ios/android are so locked down that agents can't do much ...but the space is so ripe for disruption that I bet we'll see AI-native devices coming out within the next few years that allow agents to interact with everything. I would be nervous if I were apple right now.
- adithyassekhar 5mo ago
  Android can allow an app to control the device using accessibility permissions.
- shepherdjerred 5mo ago
  I’d finally have a use case for my overpowered iPad if it could compile and run code
  - satvikpendem 5mo ago
    Now how would Apple get that sweet Mac money if you could do everything from your iPad? And that's exactly why they artificially segment those devices.
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pickleRick243 5mo ago
(Someone deleted a comment about why you'd want a mobile Codex app. This is the answer I wrote.) Once you've used these coding agents a lot, you develop a pretty intuitive feel for how they work, what they're capable of, what they're good at, and where their weaknesses are. Hopefully, you're already pretty familiar with the code base you're working on. Combining the two, this means you can get quite far essentially "vibe coding" (i.e. not looking at the actual code) on a new branch. So if you have some idea or some issue you want to fix on the go, you just iterate with the agent for a bit (presumably no more than a couple hours) until the agent outputs an implementation. Here, I do claim there is some "skill" (which is a function of your codebase familiarity, general SWE ability, and facility with AI agents), and if you're good, this implementation will be halfway decent a high percentage of the time. Then when you're back at your desktop, you can review the changes carefully/do some proper testing/debugging etc. But you've saved a good chunk of time- an initial draft is already waiting for you.
- nextaccountic 5mo ago
  But what if the code is on my laptop? Alongside the tools needed to work with it Case in point, I have a Rust project with a target/ directory with about 10GB. Compile times from scratch takes about 10 minutes. (I do not love this) With this mobile app I need to upload the code to the cloud, right? Or does OpenAI expects me to compile huge projects on my phone?
  - pickleRick243 5mo ago
    No, the phone connects to your local device. This isn't "codex web" on mobile. Basically you work through your desktop on your phone. So to be clear, there are security risks (you can wipe your entire desktop from your phone).
    - andy12_ 5mo ago
      Not if you use Linux; app not available yet.
mintflow 5mo ago
Oh no, I am just adding codex integration to my app with in-app tailscale networking, communicating with codex app server via websocket over tailscale But I will still consider to release it anyways
gchamonlive 5mo ago
This is good not because I could work on code on the go. Codex excels not only at that but also at crunching through text. It's nice that now I can get an agent in my phone that understands my notes in Logseq. It's like my journals can now talk back to me.
vladsiu 5mo ago
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satvikpendem 5mo ago
Somewhat related, some of these AI remote coding apps are iOS, what are people using for Android? Looks like some people are using terminal emulators to ssh into their machine and use the LLM CLIs but that seems clunky.
imjonse 5mo ago
Hammock-driven development will get a new meaning.
mlaretallack 5mo ago
A while ago I created a telegram bridge for AWS Kiro CLI, this allows my to talk to the agent running on my server from anywhere. Any remote access to any of these agents is a massive game changer, it means that you don't need to hover infront of the pc while it works away at the problems. It changes your workflow, but I do find you need to force yourself to "turn off", its easy to do that with the PC, eg, just walk away, but when you can just "get the agent to do one more change" while waiting to pick the kids up or taking the dog for a walk, it can get difficult to stop.
jwilliams 5mo ago
I wish they'd have done this in a separate Codex app. On desktop I greatly prefer having Codex separate from ChatGPT... As compared to Claude, which is growing so fast and adding features so quickly it seems bolted together (I get why they do it, integrations/MCP-wise). This specific feature is more akin to Remote Control in Claude. You could already kick off Codex Cloud tasks (although it's just a little more fiddly to do so). If you can move to Codex Cloud (or "Claude Code for the Web"), I think it's the superior approach. Start it there, and just pick it up from the PR if necessary.
- sumedh 5mo ago
  OpenAi wants non devs to start coding as well, its just going to confuse users when there are two Apps.
az226 5mo ago
This sucks. Codex was already in the mobile app. And Codex in the browser or in the app sucks because it's not the same as local Codex (VS Code or CLI). And you can't pick the model. Sucks a$$.
- ClumsyLee 5mo ago
  Isn’t what you described exactly what they just released? Now it connects to local Codex and you can pick the model?
  - az226 5mo ago
    What if you don't start on your laptop or workstation? Also, does the UI shown in the video reveal a model toggle? Doesn't look like it Edit: actually it gets worse -- you can't start any tasks any longer in your mobile, you are required to sign in from your desktop/workstation. You can't "sign in" from your CLI. Whoever made this, paper cuts I wish onto you. It sucks. Edit2: actually you can ssh, so I presume that allows you to do the CLI -- and you still can do mobile first tasks, but it's not intuitive at all. Mobile first tasks you still can't pick the model, and I haven't tested the workstation connection one. That said, indeed paper cuts.
cooper_ganglia 5mo ago
This is the EXACT evolution of this product that I've wanted. For simple tasks on some of my desktop machines, I don't want to mess with SSH or remoting into them, I just want to tell an AI agent what I need, let it build a plan that I press "Approve" on, and let it rip. This is the ClawdBot killer!
xenophonf 5mo ago
Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.
3ceee 5mo ago
Nigerian engineers are going to have a time of their lives
GTonehour 5mo ago
This feature could well be the reason OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw).
- rlt 5mo ago
  No.
- andai 5mo ago
  That was my thought too. Claude Code and Codex are very close to Claw already (general purpose computer use) and moving increasingly in that direction (mobile integrations, built in memory features etc.) The main issue is reliability, so I think the corporations are going to take a much more gradual, piecemeal approach, and probably end up with something like Claw within a year.
- sumedh 5mo ago
  They are just copying features from Claude Code.
- joshka 5mo ago
  A mobile app was requested by many people before Peter joined OpenAI. Also the App Server was in place for the desktop app well before that too. See https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness/ https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness/ for some history.
rexthonyy 5mo ago
As the winner of the everything app is revealed, I foresee this feature integrated in it. One platform to manage all agents by any provider.
xiaosong001 5mo ago
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brtkwr 5mo ago
Just tried it and it doesn't work... won't let me create a new task as the repo selection is disabled... works fine on my laptop on the other hand and have been using it for some time.
GanteRooibos 5mo ago
So we can finally stop tailscale + ssh + codex. Nice
arend321 5mo ago
I've been trying out various mobile, ai-assisted coding workflows. Packing a Linux mini-pc in my rucksack, connected to display glasses, and voice-to-text with handy. Voice to text gets injected into a remote (Docker) codex session, running a hot reload web stack. I prompt to implement various features in an existing code base, where codex understands the structure and requirements. If a feature is done, I take a moment to inspect the results on the display glasses, then move onto the next feature or keep iterating. It's not perfect, but I was able to implement a couple of not too complex features while walking my local national park. The display glasses have a built-in 4-microphone array, and solid speakers. No need for a bulky headset or earbuds. Glasses come with monochromatic dimming, you can easily switch between dimming and see through. If this comes with Linux integration, I will certainly give it a try.
mrasong 5mo ago
Well, this just made it even easier to keep coding away from the desk.
oulipo2 5mo ago
> Start investigating a bug while waiting for your coffee. So the whole idea is not to make work more efficient. It's just to make you work more, all the time, while waiting for your coffee, while in your commute. Ask yourselves: is that the society we want?
- smw 5mo ago
  Or just ask if you might want to do something productive while you wait for a train or sit in a taxi? Better than doom scrolling. Maybe you're working on a fun side project.
fluder_tw 5mo ago
Wondering is it only me who vibe coded PWA mobile IDE and remote agent hosted on the laptop, which uses claude -p and local code to allow coding via mobile?
tasuki 5mo ago
The right way to do this is Google Jules: the boundary is a git repository, the interface is a chat window you can open anywhere (yes, even simultaneously), the output is a diff you can choose to merge. But, for whatever reason, no one uses Google Jules. I don't want my phone to have the ability to execute things on my computer. Much less with a LLM in-between!
- sumedh 5mo ago
  Google might shut it down soon.
  - tasuki 5mo ago
    Yes, and there are two entirely unrelated reasons for that: 1. It appears no one's using it. 2. Google. It makes me sad though. This is how I want agents to work!
- upcoming-sesame 5mo ago
  because you can't rely on anything from them same for Antigravity, feels abandoned only surprising product that feels non google for me is Google Stitch https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ https://stitch.withgoogle.com/
  - daralthus 5mo ago
    that's because it's an acquisition (http://usegalileo.ai/ http://usegalileo.ai/)
    - upcoming-sesame 5mo ago
      Ah that makes a lot of sense now.
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monotype 5mo ago
I don’t think I’d review code from my phone, but I can definitely see myself using this to keep a task from stalling while I’m away from the laptop.
summarybot 5mo ago
GPT is unusable, untrustworthy, unreliable now [may 2026] - SouthPark poked fun at GPT calling everything a brilliant idea and the retaliation by "Open"AI was to nerf any response that didn't denigrate the user and inflate the LLM.
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blevinstein 5mo ago
Nice to see some catch-up with Anthropic and others, but this doesn't actually offer cloud coding agents (my favorite Claude and Cursor capability). I want to code from my mobile device when my laptop is off or unavailable, pushing PRs directly to GitHub. Codex mobile only works with a desktop machine, at which point, I'll just use that machine, what's the point.
- atomashevic 5mo ago
  Yes it does. Codex, three dots menu: Codex cloud
totaldude87 5mo ago
Most of us are missing the point. This gives a direct access to my machine with just one tool and no setup ( apart from Coded setup) Now I can run scripts as hoc or stop my loss making stock market script without going through the hoops
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woodydesign 5mo ago
Approve permission request on the go + Notify me when work/answer done, when need my attention. Those two are killing features.
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rprend 5mo ago
This is awesome. Exactly what openclaw was supposed to be. Im really impressed by how effortlessly it handles the file syncing. My method of walking to work is back (going for an 8 hour walk , voice dictating the whole way)
- cj 5mo ago
  Is 8 hours an exaggeration? If not, how do you walk that much without wrecking your feet?
  - rprend 5mo ago
    That includes lunch, park bench, coffee shop to charge phone, etc, but yea. north brooklyn to coney island and back. ive only done it a few times , not 5 days a week
podnami 5mo ago
Coding on the go is definitely a use case. Especially if you want something answered or make a big decision on an architectural change but need both docs and get informed about trade offs. The biggest productivity boost we made was auto deployment of new PRs so that the agent can make live changes and we can review stuff on the to. Suddenly you can do QA in a park in the sunshine without being in front of a desktop
danborn26 5mo ago
Having Codex available on mobile seems really useful for reading and understanding quick PR reviews while away from the keyboard.
Spiritus 5mo ago
Not available in Business or? I only see SSH connections in Desktop app and only cloud environments in the iOS app.
cylentwolf 5mo ago
When will it release for Windows App? I sometimes hate being outside the Apple Ecosystem when it comes to being a developer.
yashau 5mo ago
Hmm. No Windows support yet. I will continue using my Telegram bridge then.
lxgr 5mo ago
It might not look like it at a first glance, but between this and the "everyday work mode" preference on Codex for macOS, it seems to me that these are OpenAI's incremental steps towards an Openclaw-like product offering.
chris_money202 5mo ago
I prefer GitHub Copilot Agent Session for this flow since it's in its own container/VM naturally and you can spawn from the Github Mobile app, except it is a bummer how much of your actions minutes that and CI/CD will consume. If I were to do this Codex flow I would want to have it setup in a dev container, most people are probably not going to do that, so we are going to see a lot of vulnerabilities introduced / computers "breaking". Breaking in quotes because the computer is not actually broken, but to a novice it might appear it is, when in reality it's just out of disk space or the agent executed a setting, it shouldn't have. Unfortunately, if the computer is out of disk space, a novice won't be able to spawn their coding agent to fix it, so their next logical course of action is Geek Squad/IT? I don't even know.
- jatora 5mo ago
  No we won't see that because the whole 'broke my computer' trope pretty much never happens to people unless they are researchers going wild in a VM to trigger it. And pure novices are just... not using these tools, and when they do, at most they lose a spreadsheet. (and that hardly happens either, if at all) This is a non-issue problem raised by anti-ai zealots, much like data center water use is overblown. Headlines and lies.
  - chris_money202 5mo ago
    I am an engineer and just the other day forgot to set a disk quota on a container I gave an agent and it almost reached disk space running a simulation that was logging to a DB overnight. If that would have happened I probably would have lost ability to ssh and that computer isn't connected to a display or keyboard so would have been a huge headache for me to reset. And novices ARE absolutely using these things, I have a handful of friends with 0 CS background using claude to write apps, automation, etc
    - chris_money202 5mo ago
      Also to drive this point home I've had claude suggest no password sudo before, some people are going to blindly accept that on a computer that also has access to accounts. Making that computer very vulnerable.
jpease 5mo ago
Seems appropriate I can craft my commits in the bathroom now.
joshka 5mo ago
One thing not to sleep on here is that the new ssh access enables you to dockerize your dev environments while still maintaining a local control plane. Interact local, execute remote.
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dirtbag__dad 5mo ago
Is anyone else troublingly addicted to your code agents? I’m constantly thinking about work because work is “just wrapping up” always now. I go to see one thing is done, outside of work hours, then find myself kicking the next thing off. Who is this good for? My company, Anthropic/Openai, but not me? Maybe if I was investing in a side project I’d feel differently. At any rate, the thought of bringing the agent out of my work machine and into my pocket or bed with me is terrifying. I hope it doesn’t come to that.

486 points by mikeevans 5mo ago

The ability to unblock or redirect longer-running work from a phone seems underrated. Curious how often people will actually manage active coding threads this way.

Riany 5mo ago

The best part is you don't have to stay at home waiting codex thinking, you can go out grab a coffee while connect your Codex and ask it to work

refactor_master 5mo ago
Surely you mean grab a coffee and sit back down at your desk in your corporate office, because working remotely while your agent also does so is just preposterous.

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Alifatisk 5mo ago

Whats crazier is that Codex is free. I thought I had to pay to even try it out but nope, you can use the desktop app or cli for free, its apparently included in the free plan. You just have to sign in to your ChatGPT account. Of course I am aware that the caveat here is that all my interaction is part of training, but I’m fine with that. Even Qwen Cli discontinued the free plan.

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Rover222 5mo ago
I think it's free for about 2 useful requests and then you have to upgrade or wait?
- osiris970 5mo ago
  So basically a 20$ Claude plan lmao
  - replwoacause 5mo ago
    I stopped using my Claude subscription because it became so prohibitive. Back to ChatGPT and Codex full time and been pretty happy. I miss the tone/writing style of Claude, but don't miss the frustration of being told I've reached my plan limits in a comically short amount of time.
    - Razengan 5mo ago
      on Codex I ran into limits maybe like 2 times in 3 months, after doing several "upgrade this experimental game to my latest shared framework" passes on 5.5 Extra High
      - ssl-3 5mo ago
        On which plan? I can go through a 5-hour limit with a $20/mo Plus subscription in a few minutes with 5.5 Extra High. This causes me to reserve the latest/best rev for the harder problems. 5.5 really does seem to be very superior to 5.4, but it's also very expensive to run: The gas gauge moves fast. It's not very clearly defined whether 5.5 will cost less to get a problem solved quickly, or if a bunch of automatic iterations of 5.4 will solve it less-expensively. Both are often frustrating to me on the $20 plan. (Also: Are you sure you're seeing it right? 5.5 has been in the wild for less than a month, so far. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ )
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thorum 5mo ago
I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.
- jwilliams 5mo ago
  Are you specifically pointing at a different experience between free + paid? Or just that the free version is unimpressive? I'm using paid on TypeScript and it's genuinely terrific. Subjectively I think it has the edge over Opus. I'd be surprised if OpenAI is hamstringing the free version. That would seem crazy from a GTM PoV. If anything the labs seem to throttle the heavy paid users.
  - fragmede 5mo ago
    Yes, the free version doesn't have access to the same models that the paid does.
    - debian3 5mo ago
      You have access to 5.5 xhigh on free. Which model is missing except the 5.3 that run on cerebras?
    - wahnfrieden 5mo ago
      It's only missing the trash models. Likely a user skill issue.
- wahnfrieden 5mo ago
  Post your chat session
  - ssl-3 5mo ago
    Can Codex chats be shared? (This is a genuine question; so far, I've only used Codex in CLI on Linux.)
firesteelrain 5mo ago
How much better is it than Claude? I have both but Claude sucks up so many tokens.
- bobbylarrybobby 5mo ago
  5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.
  - Leynos 5mo ago
    They've added a new goal mode that might help with that
  - ymolodtsov 5mo ago
    The main difference is in the frontend skills. GPT produces terrible design. What I do these days is ask Opus to produce an HTML mockup, then feed it to Codex.
  - auggierose 5mo ago
    I have not had problems with long goals. I let it chomp for 40 minutes on a proof in my custom theorem prover (xhigh fast), and it got there. Very happy with Codex, I ditched Claude for it.
- yieldcrv 5mo ago
  Less gibliterrating and more doing Very fast
- stldev 5mo ago
  I switched some time after Anthropic bricked their models with adaptive thinking. It's a legit mystery to me how people are still using CC professionally. Codex is far less frustrating and manages context better. It's also costing me about 1/3rd as much as Opus 4.7 on CC.
orionsbelt 5mo ago
First hit is free… got to get you hooked.
beering 5mo ago
Can’t you just turn off training on your data in the settings?
atorodius 5mo ago
WDYM it is free? You hit rate limits after anout 10 messages (side note I like that they rate limit messages and not tokens. at least it does not just stop mid reply)

tekacs 5mo ago

It's refreshing that unlike Anthropic's Remote Control, this actually... works. Feels like a testament to the value in taking time and doing it properly. Now if only codex got its 1M token context window back. --- Edit: Hmmm. Maybe I spoke too soon. Sigh. Definitely _more_ reliable by far overall, but still have queued messages with responses on my phone that don't show up on my computer, and responses that don't show up on my phone. Edit 2: New threads created from my phone seem to have a little stall-out, but ones that are underway are behaving reasonably well.

20kleagues 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, what issues did you face with remote control on claude? I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well (bar the issues when my Mac would sleep and then the session would disconnect, but that's an issue on my end).
- RayVR 5mo ago
  My own experience has been that it works for about five minutes before it just disconnects or hangs. I’ve never been able to use it successfully.
- tekacs 5mo ago
  Myriad, to be honest. I find it to just constantly be in a 'torn' state, the UI is very mushy on mobile with a lot of the affordances from desktop missing, and... it's distinctly less useful when you can't... edit, rewind, start a new thread, etc.
- hamza_q_ 5mo ago
  Made a menu bar app you may find useful for MacBook sleep prevention, even when the lid is closed: https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil
  - cryozero 5mo ago
    Hey buddy, I submitted a pull request to you to support Intel chips https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil/pull/3 https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil/pull/3

schnitzelstoat 5mo ago

This is really useful for when you just need to approve plans or make small decisions.

stavros 5mo ago

The best way I've found to work with LLMs is another OpenAI project, Symphony (which I implemented for Linear/GitHub and OpenCode[0]). It integrates with your issue tracker and makes the tracker the UI for the LLM. It also clones the repo for every ticket, and can set up fixtures/etc. I can work on multiple items at a time, which is fantastic because otherwise you have to wait for the LLMs a lot. [0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony https://github.com/skorokithakis/symphony

vohk 5mo ago

Dang, I thought this was going to be integration for Codex Cloud, not the (still not available for Linux) Codex App. Not even Codex CLI, alas. You can still access the Cloud option from a mobile browser well enough but I prefer an app UI for poking at the things on the go.

tekacs 5mo ago
You can do this from the CLI - `codex remote-control` works on Linux (I have no affiliation, just something I noticed). They might just not have cut a new build yet, today. It 'works' on master, but the mobile app thinks that your build is outdated (v0.0.0) if you build from master without overriding version, so probably easiest to wait until they cut a build if they haven't.
- asadm 5mo ago
  thanks. i dont use the app and so this is cool
- vohk 5mo ago
  Oh, that's promising, thanks! I've just been using the npm version.
- embedding-shape 5mo ago
  > You can do this from the CLI - `codex remote-control` works on Linux (I have no affiliation, just something I noticed). Woah, hadn't seen this before! Off-topic, how long compile times do people have for codex-rs in openai/codex? Even my very beefy computer takes like 30 minutes to compile in release mode, makes me wonder why it's so slow and how this TUI got so large. But then I remember, agents like to write a lot of code, compilers get slower when they have to compile a lot of code :)
  - tekacs 5mo ago
    Try turning off LTO. Their default codex-rs/Cargo.toml uses `lto = "fat"`, which is... expensive and slow and... you really really don't need it for a local build that you're not distributing. In my experience, although the build is a little slow, it's that LTO step that takes a million years.

asadm 5mo ago

I use Termius on my phone to remote and make agent do stuff while i chill or am on road. This seems useful too.

sambaumann 5mo ago
I also do this, but I find the terminal ergonomics are a little awkward on mobile. I do think termius is the best version of it I've used though

mv4 5mo ago

Can someone recommend an IDE that can be used with a self-hosted model (via OpenAI or similar)?

aiscoming 5mo ago
vs code supports local models (bring your own key/model) you need a model server - ollama/llama.cpp/lm studio
- no-name-here 5mo ago
  > bring your own key Do you mean supporting oai-compatible api URLs in copilot? If so then you need either VS Code Insiders, or a VS Code extension I believe?
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suyash 5mo ago
Look up OpenCode

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Squab 5mo ago

friends, you don’t have to always be productive. leave the agent on the computer and take care of yourself.

jorl17 5mo ago
For many people, that's exactly why this is useful: less time on the computer, more time doing other things and occasionally checking in. In those scenarios, the goal is not "work at any time" but to "be anywhere at any time", or, rather, to "be able to work from anywhere, doing anything". Sort of....I guess.
- yhgyy 5mo ago
  I love how all these software engineers are willingly walking into a productivity trap where they will be exploited. I’m not a swe but damn, I’d hate to be one.

iridione 5mo ago

This is neat! Now I'm curious, what's left to innovate in the coding agent space? Sure there are the usual suspects like maintenance, security, reliability and other scalability improvements and looks like they will be addressed in the next year or two.

thornewolf 5mo ago
there is something "wrong" with the ux that is hard to pin down. these things generate even text summaries more rapidly than i can read them. i need a better method for dumping info into my brain + dynamic control (if necessary)
- ssl-3 5mo ago
  When I take time to read all of the output, I often find that it's mostly noise. I don't like noise so I usually don't bother. But a person can use subagents, if they want, to filter that down. This burns tokens in a big hurry, but I think subagents can be arbitrary local commands (eg, a local LLM). Or, you know: Just slow down. :) It doesn't always have to be a race, does it?
- jpalomaki 5mo ago
  Tell it to create html summaries with diagrams and sidebar for navigation. Or ask Codex to create image that explains xyz.
ukuina 5mo ago
Is texting your Coding Agent really the final form? Something that watches your interactions or process execution to surface improvements, or whips up prototypes while you brainstorm seems like the next step.
- satvikpendem 5mo ago
  Not sure why this was flagged, this makes sense but only if inference gets sufficiently cheap. It would be awesome to see a bunch of interactive prototypes and iterate on the UX before ever building the full app. Historically that's been somewhat difficult even with UX designers.

jumploops 5mo ago

I’ve been using Codex from my phone for the past couple of months (through a tunnel, not this app). I was initially quite excited, but I’ve found the results are less than great compared to being at a keyboard. Something about the smaller screen size and/or lack of keyboard causes me to direct the agent less, which in turn creates more tech debt/code churn/etc. Maybe I’m just showing my age, and I should practice voice dictation or something more, but my thoughts flow faster and more clearly on a keyboard (less ums).

fowlie 5mo ago
I've been trying voxtype (using whisper models) lately, and to my surprise all my ums are filtered out. It's really good now actually!
- esperent 5mo ago
  I don't see any way to use that on a phone.
aiscoming 5mo ago
the ums are exactly the sign that you speak much faster than you type, so you need a pause for your thoughts to catch up
keyle 5mo ago
I'm not sure I follow, you develop code on a remote machine by speaking to your phone and are unimpressed by the result?
- selcuka 5mo ago
  They are unimpressed by their (current) ability to use it, not the technology.
- jumploops 5mo ago
  It's not that I'm unimpressed by the results, it's that I think I'm saving time by pushing the agent along remotely, but the reality is that my messages to the agent(s) end up being a lot shorter, which inevitably leaves more up for interpretation. Don't get me wrong, I still use Codex (and sometimes Claude Code) remotely every day, and am overall excited for this release, it's just that the benefit wasn't as high as I had initially hoped. Part of this is due to the models getting better (no need to prod along with "continue"), and part of this is the nature of how I use my phone (short bursts of attention). But again, maybe I'm just old and prefer big screens with a keyboard.

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fHr 5mo ago

rust and opensource W

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reassess_blind 5mo ago

Is there a native way to work remotely with Claude/Codex on a local folder or git repo on your main machine without having to connect it to GitHub? For creating apps for personal use I’d rather just keep the files local. Edit: Running into issues setting it up on Windows. There's no "/remote-control" command in the CLI, so I installed the Windows Codex app. Then I updated the iOS app which now has the "Codex" feature in the sidebar, which should allow remote access to the Windows machine's instance - except it doesn't connect. The iOS app shows my desktop's hostname, so it knows there's an instance there, but refuses to connect. Issues like this would persuade a lot of folks to switch back to Claude.

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iamjs 5mo ago
I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.
- DonsDiscountGas 5mo ago
  It's supposed to. I've always found it buggy and unreliable but maybe that's just me. (This command exists in Claude btw not sure about Codex)
  - rovr138 5mo ago
    You can also connect remotely. Tailscale to connect to your network/machine. Then use SSH to login. Then use tmux to persist the session even if you log out.
  - rovr138 5mo ago
    Looks like codex has it too since last week, https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.130.0 https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.130.0
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impulser_ 5mo ago

Say what you want about OpenAI, but their software is actually pretty dam good especially compared to Anthropic and Google. Anthropic is just sloppy, and Google just doesn't live on this planet. Both of the Codex apps are very good. I tried this out and it works significantly better than Claude's remote control in fact the first few times I tried Claude's remote control it didn't even work and to this day is very buggy.

haint_ 5mo ago
I use remote-control every day and haven't had many issues with it, aside from the fact that the mobile app being pretty limited, e.g there are no prompt suggestions like slash commands and skills, everything in the textbox is just a raw string. You also can’t start a new session directly from the app (have to SSH into the host manually to do that) Other than those limitations, the connection has been very stable for me, definitely more reliable than alternatives like happy.engineering or Omnara. What’s been buggy for you specifically?

cyanydeez 5mo ago

opencode behind a nginx proxy with a standard user/password is sufficiently powerful. You can also upgrade to https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server/ https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server/ and run any vscode plugins; opencode's plugin is pretty rudimentry but cline has been making a lot of strides. You can run your local LLM and just connect the docker containers. I'm paranoid of being disconnected from the LLM, so I never run any of this on the same machine, so orchestrating a docker-compose file that provides the necessary services is important. I'm still trying to find a good remote file system to loop into the setup for improved switching between cli and these web containers.

Razengan 5mo ago

Codex has been great in the last 3-4 months I've been using it, almost exclusively to review existing GDScript code, and this was the feature I wanted most, because with gamedev you get the best ideas when you're out and about or in bed :) Claude on the other hand has been jank all around from the UX to the UI to the AI itself that it's baffling how it's more popular here on HN: https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png Sadly this remote control feature doesn't seem to be for Mac to Mac yet? I love the MacBook Neo as a "thin client" for AI and keep the MacBook Pro at home/hotel, and it would be nice to share Codex desktop sessions (without SSH → resume link)

Razengan 5mo ago
> Sadly this remote control feature doesn't seem to be for Mac to Mac yet? Oh there is a "Control other devices" option in Settings → Connections, but it wasn't working in the build at the time of the original post

ahmadyan 5mo ago

i'm not sure if i'm hallucinating, but i swear i had codex in the chatGPT app from long time ago (like the original codex on the web). they added some new stuff, like remote control to wherever the desktop codex app is running, but these companies need to work much more on their press releases.

wahnfrieden 5mo ago
That was cloud codex. Not comparable

miohtama 5mo ago

I have been using Omnara now some months, on desktop and mobile. It's web/mobile remote for Claude and Codex. I can do some tasks on mobile, especially if they are follow up and steering only, greatly increasing productivity as you can keep working whilst in transit, etc.

sbinnee 5mo ago

I don't like this direction. For accessibility aspect, sure it is good. But Codex is a coding product. I am increasingly concerned of lack of reviewing practice. I doubt that a mobile app is good for reviewing code changes. > Stay connected to active work from anywhere ... (and anytime because it's on your phone). No thanks.

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jsemrau 5mo ago

I don't understand OpenAI's product strategy.

hello8402 5mo ago
> I don't understand OpenAI's product strategy. Neither does OpenAI.
GolfPopper 5mo ago
It seems pretty simple: 1) Keep getting investors to give them money. 2) Convince the right people that OpenAI is "critical to national security" so that when 1 runs out, they can get bailed out by the government. Everything else is just set dressing.
sumedh 5mo ago
What part is confusing?
joshka 5mo ago
People ask for a thing they want, someone there has codex build it. Repeat.

fa3ax 5mo ago

They needed to announce something after the Anthropic slop rewrite of Bun. In an ideal world the would allocate 50% of compute to find errors in that rewrite and publish how bad Claude is, but that would undermine confidence in slop in general so that is not going to happen.

Loranubi 5mo ago

macOS only so far. "Windows is coming soon"

breatheoften 5mo ago

This is super nice!!!!!!

breatheoften 5mo ago

This is extremely what Ive been wanting -- I had previously thought about using one of the hackish apps that try to deliver this experience - or spinning up something for this myself ... - but integrating this directly is definitely the right way to provide the best system and product experience -- and this seems to work out of the box exactly as I would want!

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boodleboodle 5mo ago

Could Codex CLI get this support also? I am sure a lot of us are running remote linux machines with Nvidia GPUs, with codex CLI running

beering 5mo ago
I think this is a thing, maybe need to upgrade your codex cli.
- boodleboodle 5mo ago
  Seems we must have a macOS Codex App running to enable linux box - phone communication
joquarky 5mo ago
I got it to connect by starting codex CLI with `codex remote-control` but it seems to be limited/sandboxed to a specific directory. In my case, I run all coding agents under a specific user, `agent`, and when I access it over remote from my phone, I seem to be limited to the working directory `/var/lib/agent/Documents/Code` with no obvious way to change this. It won't let me go to my existing project directories (including the directory where I started `codex remote-control`). I haven't tried symbolic links or anything complicated yet, as this is mostly just a novelty to me.

throwatdem12311 5mo ago

> Stay connected to active work from anywhere And here I thought AI was gonna automate the world and we were gonna work less. Turns out you’re gonna work 24/7 no matter where you are!

teaspoon 5mo ago
Why not work the same amount and be at your desk less?
- throwatdem12311 5mo ago
  The same reason I don’t have social media apps on my phone.
- sheept 5mo ago
  your boss will probably prefer the colleague that can now work more, and isn't occasionally absent from their desk
mifydev 5mo ago
This is a very myopic and unnecessary cynical sentiment. It's not about you - agents just need to run without your computer being on all the time. Coding is a background task that needs to run unattended now.
- throwatdem12311 5mo ago
  This is absolutely not true. I run dozens of Opus agents all day and they need so much constant attention and babysitting (lest everything turn to sh*t) that I would not qualify it anywhere close to “background”. And I’m sure as hell not wrangling these things from my *phone*.
  - EGreg 5mo ago
    What would it take to remove yourself from the loop so your agents can go parabolic and kick off the singularity? (Have them cover their own token costs, hehe).

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Jimidesuu 5mo ago

So Codex is also heading towards 'portability' and I can see that here but I bet this will take time before it's cleanly optimized for mobile hard use

m3kw9 5mo ago

Buggy af though

charlie90 5mo ago

Nice. Next step is giving codex/Claude Code local device control...problem is the current ios/android are so locked down that agents can't do much ...but the space is so ripe for disruption that I bet we'll see AI-native devices coming out within the next few years that allow agents to interact with everything. I would be nervous if I were apple right now.

adithyassekhar 5mo ago
Android can allow an app to control the device using accessibility permissions.
shepherdjerred 5mo ago
I’d finally have a use case for my overpowered iPad if it could compile and run code
- satvikpendem 5mo ago
  Now how would Apple get that sweet Mac money if you could do everything from your iPad? And that's exactly why they artificially segment those devices.

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pickleRick243 5mo ago

(Someone deleted a comment about why you'd want a mobile Codex app. This is the answer I wrote.) Once you've used these coding agents a lot, you develop a pretty intuitive feel for how they work, what they're capable of, what they're good at, and where their weaknesses are. Hopefully, you're already pretty familiar with the code base you're working on. Combining the two, this means you can get quite far essentially "vibe coding" (i.e. not looking at the actual code) on a new branch. So if you have some idea or some issue you want to fix on the go, you just iterate with the agent for a bit (presumably no more than a couple hours) until the agent outputs an implementation. Here, I do claim there is some "skill" (which is a function of your codebase familiarity, general SWE ability, and facility with AI agents), and if you're good, this implementation will be halfway decent a high percentage of the time. Then when you're back at your desktop, you can review the changes carefully/do some proper testing/debugging etc. But you've saved a good chunk of time- an initial draft is already waiting for you.

nextaccountic 5mo ago
But what if the code is on my laptop? Alongside the tools needed to work with it Case in point, I have a Rust project with a target/ directory with about 10GB. Compile times from scratch takes about 10 minutes. (I do not love this) With this mobile app I need to upload the code to the cloud, right? Or does OpenAI expects me to compile huge projects on my phone?
- pickleRick243 5mo ago
  No, the phone connects to your local device. This isn't "codex web" on mobile. Basically you work through your desktop on your phone. So to be clear, there are security risks (you can wipe your entire desktop from your phone).
  - andy12_ 5mo ago
    Not if you use Linux; app not available yet.

mintflow 5mo ago

Oh no, I am just adding codex integration to my app with in-app tailscale networking, communicating with codex app server via websocket over tailscale But I will still consider to release it anyways

gchamonlive 5mo ago

This is good not because I could work on code on the go. Codex excels not only at that but also at crunching through text. It's nice that now I can get an agent in my phone that understands my notes in Logseq. It's like my journals can now talk back to me.

vladsiu 5mo ago

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satvikpendem 5mo ago

Somewhat related, some of these AI remote coding apps are iOS, what are people using for Android? Looks like some people are using terminal emulators to ssh into their machine and use the LLM CLIs but that seems clunky.

imjonse 5mo ago

Hammock-driven development will get a new meaning.

mlaretallack 5mo ago

A while ago I created a telegram bridge for AWS Kiro CLI, this allows my to talk to the agent running on my server from anywhere. Any remote access to any of these agents is a massive game changer, it means that you don't need to hover infront of the pc while it works away at the problems. It changes your workflow, but I do find you need to force yourself to "turn off", its easy to do that with the PC, eg, just walk away, but when you can just "get the agent to do one more change" while waiting to pick the kids up or taking the dog for a walk, it can get difficult to stop.

jwilliams 5mo ago

I wish they'd have done this in a separate Codex app. On desktop I greatly prefer having Codex separate from ChatGPT... As compared to Claude, which is growing so fast and adding features so quickly it seems bolted together (I get why they do it, integrations/MCP-wise). This specific feature is more akin to Remote Control in Claude. You could already kick off Codex Cloud tasks (although it's just a little more fiddly to do so). If you can move to Codex Cloud (or "Claude Code for the Web"), I think it's the superior approach. Start it there, and just pick it up from the PR if necessary.

sumedh 5mo ago
OpenAi wants non devs to start coding as well, its just going to confuse users when there are two Apps.

az226 5mo ago

This sucks. Codex was already in the mobile app. And Codex in the browser or in the app sucks because it's not the same as local Codex (VS Code or CLI). And you can't pick the model. Sucks a$$.

ClumsyLee 5mo ago
Isn’t what you described exactly what they just released? Now it connects to local Codex and you can pick the model?
- az226 5mo ago
  What if you don't start on your laptop or workstation? Also, does the UI shown in the video reveal a model toggle? Doesn't look like it Edit: actually it gets worse -- you can't start any tasks any longer in your mobile, you are required to sign in from your desktop/workstation. You can't "sign in" from your CLI. Whoever made this, paper cuts I wish onto you. It sucks. Edit2: actually you can ssh, so I presume that allows you to do the CLI -- and you still can do mobile first tasks, but it's not intuitive at all. Mobile first tasks you still can't pick the model, and I haven't tested the workstation connection one. That said, indeed paper cuts.

cooper_ganglia 5mo ago

This is the EXACT evolution of this product that I've wanted. For simple tasks on some of my desktop machines, I don't want to mess with SSH or remoting into them, I just want to tell an AI agent what I need, let it build a plan that I press "Approve" on, and let it rip. This is the ClawdBot killer!

xenophonf 5mo ago

Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.

3ceee 5mo ago

Nigerian engineers are going to have a time of their lives

GTonehour 5mo ago

This feature could well be the reason OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw).

rlt 5mo ago
No.
andai 5mo ago
That was my thought too. Claude Code and Codex are very close to Claw already (general purpose computer use) and moving increasingly in that direction (mobile integrations, built in memory features etc.) The main issue is reliability, so I think the corporations are going to take a much more gradual, piecemeal approach, and probably end up with something like Claw within a year.
sumedh 5mo ago
They are just copying features from Claude Code.
joshka 5mo ago
A mobile app was requested by many people before Peter joined OpenAI. Also the App Server was in place for the desktop app well before that too. See https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness/ https://openai.com/index/unlocking-the-codex-harness/ for some history.

rexthonyy 5mo ago

As the winner of the everything app is revealed, I foresee this feature integrated in it. One platform to manage all agents by any provider.

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brtkwr 5mo ago

Just tried it and it doesn't work... won't let me create a new task as the repo selection is disabled... works fine on my laptop on the other hand and have been using it for some time.

GanteRooibos 5mo ago

So we can finally stop tailscale + ssh + codex. Nice

arend321 5mo ago

I've been trying out various mobile, ai-assisted coding workflows. Packing a Linux mini-pc in my rucksack, connected to display glasses, and voice-to-text with handy. Voice to text gets injected into a remote (Docker) codex session, running a hot reload web stack. I prompt to implement various features in an existing code base, where codex understands the structure and requirements. If a feature is done, I take a moment to inspect the results on the display glasses, then move onto the next feature or keep iterating. It's not perfect, but I was able to implement a couple of not too complex features while walking my local national park. The display glasses have a built-in 4-microphone array, and solid speakers. No need for a bulky headset or earbuds. Glasses come with monochromatic dimming, you can easily switch between dimming and see through. If this comes with Linux integration, I will certainly give it a try.

mrasong 5mo ago

Well, this just made it even easier to keep coding away from the desk.

oulipo2 5mo ago

> Start investigating a bug while waiting for your coffee. So the whole idea is not to make work more efficient. It's just to make you work more, all the time, while waiting for your coffee, while in your commute. Ask yourselves: is that the society we want?

smw 5mo ago
Or just ask if you might want to do something productive while you wait for a train or sit in a taxi? Better than doom scrolling. Maybe you're working on a fun side project.

fluder_tw 5mo ago

Wondering is it only me who vibe coded PWA mobile IDE and remote agent hosted on the laptop, which uses claude -p and local code to allow coding via mobile?

tasuki 5mo ago

The right way to do this is Google Jules: the boundary is a git repository, the interface is a chat window you can open anywhere (yes, even simultaneously), the output is a diff you can choose to merge. But, for whatever reason, no one uses Google Jules. I don't want my phone to have the ability to execute things on my computer. Much less with a LLM in-between!

sumedh 5mo ago
Google might shut it down soon.
- tasuki 5mo ago
  Yes, and there are two entirely unrelated reasons for that: 1. It appears no one's using it. 2. Google. It makes me sad though. This is how I want agents to work!
upcoming-sesame 5mo ago
because you can't rely on anything from them same for Antigravity, feels abandoned only surprising product that feels non google for me is Google Stitch https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ https://stitch.withgoogle.com/
- daralthus 5mo ago
  that's because it's an acquisition (http://usegalileo.ai/ http://usegalileo.ai/)
  - upcoming-sesame 5mo ago
    Ah that makes a lot of sense now.

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monotype 5mo ago

I don’t think I’d review code from my phone, but I can definitely see myself using this to keep a task from stalling while I’m away from the laptop.

summarybot 5mo ago

GPT is unusable, untrustworthy, unreliable now [may 2026] - SouthPark poked fun at GPT calling everything a brilliant idea and the retaliation by "Open"AI was to nerf any response that didn't denigrate the user and inflate the LLM.

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blevinstein 5mo ago

Nice to see some catch-up with Anthropic and others, but this doesn't actually offer cloud coding agents (my favorite Claude and Cursor capability). I want to code from my mobile device when my laptop is off or unavailable, pushing PRs directly to GitHub. Codex mobile only works with a desktop machine, at which point, I'll just use that machine, what's the point.

atomashevic 5mo ago
Yes it does. Codex, three dots menu: Codex cloud

totaldude87 5mo ago

Most of us are missing the point. This gives a direct access to my machine with just one tool and no setup ( apart from Coded setup) Now I can run scripts as hoc or stop my loss making stock market script without going through the hoops

daniel3303 5mo ago

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woodydesign 5mo ago

Approve permission request on the go + Notify me when work/answer done, when need my attention. Those two are killing features.

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rprend 5mo ago

This is awesome. Exactly what openclaw was supposed to be. Im really impressed by how effortlessly it handles the file syncing. My method of walking to work is back (going for an 8 hour walk , voice dictating the whole way)

cj 5mo ago
Is 8 hours an exaggeration? If not, how do you walk that much without wrecking your feet?
- rprend 5mo ago
  That includes lunch, park bench, coffee shop to charge phone, etc, but yea. north brooklyn to coney island and back. ive only done it a few times , not 5 days a week

podnami 5mo ago

Coding on the go is definitely a use case. Especially if you want something answered or make a big decision on an architectural change but need both docs and get informed about trade offs. The biggest productivity boost we made was auto deployment of new PRs so that the agent can make live changes and we can review stuff on the to. Suddenly you can do QA in a park in the sunshine without being in front of a desktop

danborn26 5mo ago

Having Codex available on mobile seems really useful for reading and understanding quick PR reviews while away from the keyboard.

Spiritus 5mo ago

Not available in Business or? I only see SSH connections in Desktop app and only cloud environments in the iOS app.

cylentwolf 5mo ago

When will it release for Windows App? I sometimes hate being outside the Apple Ecosystem when it comes to being a developer.

yashau 5mo ago

Hmm. No Windows support yet. I will continue using my Telegram bridge then.

lxgr 5mo ago

It might not look like it at a first glance, but between this and the "everyday work mode" preference on Codex for macOS, it seems to me that these are OpenAI's incremental steps towards an Openclaw-like product offering.

chris_money202 5mo ago

I prefer GitHub Copilot Agent Session for this flow since it's in its own container/VM naturally and you can spawn from the Github Mobile app, except it is a bummer how much of your actions minutes that and CI/CD will consume. If I were to do this Codex flow I would want to have it setup in a dev container, most people are probably not going to do that, so we are going to see a lot of vulnerabilities introduced / computers "breaking". Breaking in quotes because the computer is not actually broken, but to a novice it might appear it is, when in reality it's just out of disk space or the agent executed a setting, it shouldn't have. Unfortunately, if the computer is out of disk space, a novice won't be able to spawn their coding agent to fix it, so their next logical course of action is Geek Squad/IT? I don't even know.

jatora 5mo ago
No we won't see that because the whole 'broke my computer' trope pretty much never happens to people unless they are researchers going wild in a VM to trigger it. And pure novices are just... not using these tools, and when they do, at most they lose a spreadsheet. (and that hardly happens either, if at all) This is a non-issue problem raised by anti-ai zealots, much like data center water use is overblown. Headlines and lies.
- chris_money202 5mo ago
  I am an engineer and just the other day forgot to set a disk quota on a container I gave an agent and it almost reached disk space running a simulation that was logging to a DB overnight. If that would have happened I probably would have lost ability to ssh and that computer isn't connected to a display or keyboard so would have been a huge headache for me to reset. And novices ARE absolutely using these things, I have a handful of friends with 0 CS background using claude to write apps, automation, etc
  - chris_money202 5mo ago
    Also to drive this point home I've had claude suggest no password sudo before, some people are going to blindly accept that on a computer that also has access to accounts. Making that computer very vulnerable.

jpease 5mo ago

Seems appropriate I can craft my commits in the bathroom now.

joshka 5mo ago

One thing not to sleep on here is that the new ssh access enables you to dockerize your dev environments while still maintaining a local control plane. Interact local, execute remote.

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dirtbag__dad 5mo ago

Is anyone else troublingly addicted to your code agents? I’m constantly thinking about work because work is “just wrapping up” always now. I go to see one thing is done, outside of work hours, then find myself kicking the next thing off. Who is this good for? My company, Anthropic/Openai, but not me? Maybe if I was investing in a side project I’d feel differently. At any rate, the thought of bringing the agent out of my work machine and into my pocket or bed with me is terrifying. I hope it doesn’t come to that.