Codex
OpenAI's autonomous coding agent that runs in your terminal to write, refactor, and debug code across entire repositories.
Features
- Terminal-based agentic coding with sandboxed execution
- Multi-file editing and autonomous task completion
- Built-in code review and test generation
- Cloud-based parallel task execution
- Integrated with OpenAI API and ChatGPT Pro
Codex is OpenAI’s agent-native coding platform and CLI tool designed for autonomous software development. It can plan, write, test, and debug code across entire repositories with minimal human intervention. Codex runs tasks in a sandboxed cloud environment and supports parallel execution of multiple coding tasks. It is available through the OpenAI API and included with ChatGPT Pro subscriptions.
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