This weekly digest highlights ChatGPT and Codex features that can change how you work, with examples and links to learn more. For every versioned update, bug fix, and minor improvement, see the Codex changelog.
July 6–10, 2026
Take on ambitious work with ChatGPT Work
ChatGPT Work is an agent in ChatGPT that can gather context from your files and plugins, take action across workflows, and create reviewable documents, presentations, spreadsheets, Sites, and other finished work. Powered by GPT-5.6, it can break a goal into steps and work for hours while you follow its progress, answer questions, change direction, and approve important actions.
Scheduled tasks can keep that work moving when you’re away by running once, on a schedule, when an event occurs, or while monitoring for changes.
Choose the right GPT-5.6 model
The GPT-5.6 family offers three recommended models across ChatGPT Work, the ChatGPT desktop app, Codex CLI, and the Codex IDE extension. Sol is the flagship for complex coding, computer use, research, and security work. Terra balances capability and cost for everyday work, while Luna is the fastest, lowest-cost option. The default Power setting uses Sol with medium reasoning.
Use Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app
On July 9, the Codex app merges into the new ChatGPT desktop app for macOS and Windows. Codex keeps its dedicated coding experience alongside Chat and Work, with inline editing in diffs, pull request review in the side panel, faster Computer Use powered by GPT-5.6, and multi-repository projects.
Existing Codex app users can update as usual. You can make Codex the default view, use the Codex logo as the app icon, and access desktop Codex projects from the ChatGPT mobile app. The updated desktop app is available globally on every ChatGPT plan, including Free.
June 15–19, 2026
Turn demonstrated workflows into reusable skills
Record & Replay lets you show Codex a workflow on macOS and turn the demonstration into a reusable skill. Use it for repetitive tasks that are easier to show than describe, then refine the generated skill and replay it with new inputs. Initial availability excludes the EEA, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and requires Computer Use.
Continue a task on another host
Task handoff moves a task and its Git state between your local computer and a connected remote host. Codex can create or reuse a worktree on the destination, transfer the task, and continue from the matching project.
The same desktop release adds bulk actions to scheduled run history, so you can mark every run as read or archive eligible runs together.
Browse and review workspaces from iOS
In the ChatGPT mobile app, Remote added a workspace file browser, a directory picker for new tasks, expand-and-collapse controls for diffs, and per-task or cross-task MCP approval choices on iOS.
Computer Use, the Chrome extension, Memories, and Chronicle also began rolling out to the EEA, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Memories remain off by default in those regions, and Chronicle is an opt-in research preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers on macOS.
Read the June 15 iOS, June 16 availability, and June 18 app release notes.
June 8–12, 2026
Debug web apps with Browser Developer mode
Developer mode gives Codex controlled access to Chrome DevTools Protocol capabilities in Chrome and the built-in browser. Codex can inspect network traffic, console output, runtime errors, and page state while it profiles or debugs your app. Under Developer mode in Settings > Browser, turn on Enable full CDP access. Codex asks for explicit approval before it uses that access on a website.
Browser use is also up to twice as fast because CDP and DOM snapshot optimizations reduce browser round trips.
Bring your setup to Codex
New migration flows can import supported setup from other coding agents during
onboarding. The Codex app also added /init for creating project instructions,
plus improved plugin management, browser diagnostics, and completed-task
summaries.
Set up Codex tasks from iOS
Remote on iOS can now choose a branch, create a worktree, run an environment setup script, manage goals, and add inline review comments.
Read the June 9 app, June 9 iOS, and June 11 app release notes.
June 1–5, 2026
Build and deploy websites with Sites
Sites lets ChatGPT create, save, deploy, and inspect websites, dashboards, internal tools, web apps, and games hosted by OpenAI. Sites has a dedicated entry point in ChatGPT on the web and desktop, where you can return to projects and manage hosted environment values and secrets without assembling a separate deployment stack.
Use Codex with Amazon Bedrock
You can use Codex with Amazon Bedrock for local workflows with AWS-managed authentication, account controls, and billing. Remote on iOS also added an optional in-app lock, follow-up behavior settings, line wrapping for diffs, and SSH connections to Windows machines. The desktop app added terminal placement controls and activity insights in the profile view.
Read all June 2026 release notes.
May 25–29, 2026
Use Windows apps and control Codex remotely
Computer use added support for seeing, clicking, and typing in Windows desktop apps. Install the Computer Use plugin before starting. On Windows, Codex uses the active desktop and takes over the foreground while the task runs. Remote connections also support Windows. In the ChatGPT mobile app, open Remote to start work on a Windows device, or use a Mac running the ChatGPT desktop app and check progress from elsewhere.
Remote on iOS also added Spotlight and Shortcuts entry points, archived-task
browsing, /side, and options to save or copy rendered images. The desktop app
added task coordination for local projects and worktrees, content and
branch-name search for past tasks, and consistent visual identifiers for
background subagents.
Read the May 25 iOS and May 29 app release notes.
May 18–22, 2026
Give Codex context from any Mac app with Appshots
Appshots send the frontmost app window to Codex with a screenshot and available text when you press both Command keys. Codex gets working context from design tools, dashboards, documents, and other apps without requiring you to copy, paste, or describe what’s on screen.
Follow long-running goals
Goal mode left experimental status and is available in the Codex app, IDE extension, and CLI for objectives that can take hours or days. Locked use lets Codex continue approved computer-use work after a Mac locks, including through Remote in the ChatGPT mobile app. ChatGPT Business workspaces can also share reusable plugin bundles with workspace members.
May 11–15, 2026
Continue desktop work from mobile
In the ChatGPT mobile app, Remote connects to a Mac running the ChatGPT desktop app. Because work runs on the connected host, your projects, files, credentials, plugins, skills, and configuration remain available when you continue from your phone. See Remote connections to set up a host and pick up work from another device.
Automate trusted workflows
Hooks reached general availability for running custom commands at key points in the agent lifecycle. ChatGPT Enterprise admins can also enable Codex access tokens for trusted scripts, schedulers, and private CI runners. Enterprise guidance expanded to cover managed setup and controls for Codex.
May 4–8, 2026
Work across browser tabs with the Chrome extension
The Chrome extension can work in parallel across tabs in the background without taking over your browser. You control which websites Codex can use, making it practical to combine research, data entry, and verification across web apps in one task.
The Codex app also added dictation cleanup and a custom dictionary for names, file paths, and code symbols. ChatGPT Enterprise workspace owners can allow members to create Codex access tokens for trusted, non-interactive local workflows.
Read the May 5 app, May 5 access-token, and Codex for Chrome launch notes.
April 20–24, 2026
Use GPT-5.5 for complex work
GPT-5.5 arrived in Codex as the recommended model for most tasks, with strengths across implementation, debugging, testing, computer use, research, and finished knowledge-work outputs.
Let Codex operate the browser and review approvals
Computer Use in the built-in browser lets Codex click through local development servers and file-backed pages to reproduce issues and verify fixes. Eligible approval requests can also go through automatic approval review, which shows the review status and risk before the action runs.
Read the April 23 launch notes.
April 13–17, 2026
Preview and operate work in one place
The built-in browser added live previews and page comments, while Computer Use let Codex see and operate macOS apps. Together, they made visual implementation and end-to-end verification part of the same task as the code change.
Start with a task and keep it moving
Standalone tasks made it possible to begin without choosing a project folder. The same release added scheduled work from a task, pull-request context, richer file previews, and Memories for work that spans tasks.
Read the April 16 Codex app release notes.
April 6–10, 2026
Review and ship pull requests in the app
The review experience added collapsible inline comments, inline and detached review modes, and clearer Git and source context. Pull-request activity, comments, and push choices then moved into the app alongside workspace file tabs, so you could inspect a change and respond without switching tools.
Read the April 9 and April 10 Codex app release notes, or learn how to review changes in the app.
March 23–27, 2026
Package workflows as plugins
Plugins launched as installable bundles of skills, connectors, and MCP servers. They made complete workflows easier to discover, install, and share, while redesigned plugin and skill pages made their contents and status clearer. Search for past tasks also arrived that week.
Read the task search, plugins launch, and Codex app release notes.
March 16–20, 2026
Branch earlier and choose tools from the composer
You could fork a task from an earlier message, making it easier to try a new
approach without losing the original path. Model and reasoning commands became
available while drafting, enabled skills appeared in the @ menu, and GPT-5.4
mini added a faster option for lighter tasks and subagents.
Read the GPT-5.4 mini, conversation control, and skill menu release notes.
March 9–13, 2026
Schedule work with the right environment
Scheduled tasks could run locally or in a worktree with an explicit model and reasoning level. Reusable templates made common tasks faster to configure, and custom themes made the workspace easier to personalize.
Let Codex inspect terminal output
Codex also learned to read the integrated terminal for the current task. It could inspect a running development server or build output directly instead of asking you to paste it.
Read the March 11 and March 12 Codex app release notes.
March 2–6, 2026
Run Codex natively on Windows
The Codex app launched on Windows with native PowerShell and sandbox support, plus worktrees, scheduled tasks, and skills. WSL remained available for developers who preferred a Linux environment.
Move tasks between Local and Worktree
Local and Worktree handoff made it possible to move an active task while preserving its context. GPT-5.4 also arrived in Codex that week for coding, computer use, and longer-context workflows.
Read the Windows launch, worktree handoff, and GPT-5.4 release notes.
February 9–13, 2026
Iterate in real time and branch an approach
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark entered research preview as a near-instant model for real-time coding iteration. The app also added conversation forking and a floating, always-on-top task window, so you could explore another approach or keep Codex beside an editor or browser.
Read the Spark and Codex app release notes, or see the current model guide.
February 2–6, 2026
The Codex app launches on macOS
The Codex app launched as a desktop workspace for parallel project chats, built-in Git review, worktrees, skills, scheduled tasks, and voice dictation. Those capabilities now live in Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app.
Steer active work and add files
Mid-turn steering made it possible to redirect Codex without stopping an active response, and file attachments expanded beyond images. These patterns became the foundation for steering and queuing follow-ups with the context Codex needs.
Read the Codex app launch notes and February 5 app release notes.