Glossary

The Codex agent that reasons over context, uses tools, and completes a task.

Admin hub for ChatGPT workspace adoption and Codex-focused reporting.

Rules for when Codex must ask before taking an action.

Codex configuration and app-server fields that store connector settings under the `apps` name.

Locally stored login credentials reused by Codex.

A saved space for exchanging messages with ChatGPT or Codex, including shared context, results, and actions. Quick chat starts a ChatGPT chat from Codex.

Authentication using a ChatGPT account and workspace permissions.

Mode where Codex works remotely in an OpenAI-managed environment.

Configured container setup used for Codex cloud chats.

Local JSON-RPC server for embedding Codex threads, turns, approvals, history, and streamed events in custom clients.

OpenAI-managed execution environment where Codex can work on repository tasks remotely.

Editor integration for using Codex inside IDEs like VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, and Windsurf.

A temporary worktree Codex creates and manages for a chat.

API for exporting supported ChatGPT workspace records and audit metadata.

Capability that lets ChatGPT operate the built-in browser directly.

Computer or development environment that provides files, tools, and shell access for ChatGPT or Codex chats opened through Remote.

Saved cloud container state reused to speed up future cloud chats.

The maximum amount of information the model can consider at once.

User-defined agent role with its own instructions and settings.

Set of Git file changes shown for inspection, comments, staging, or reverting.

Desktop app configuration that tells Codex how to set up worktrees for a project.

Non-interactive run that skips saving session state after it completes.

Permission profile rule that grants or denies read and write access to paths.

Mode where Codex runs without normal sandbox restrictions.

Moving a chat and its work between Local and Worktree.

A lifecycle handler that runs when a Codex event matches, such as tool use, permission requests, or when a turn stops.

Contiguous section of a diff that can be staged, unstaged, or reverted independently.

Real-time web lookup for current information.

A ChatGPT or Codex chat that runs on the user's machine.

Organization-controlled Codex defaults and restrictions.

Readable context exposed by an MCP server for Codex to inspect.

Action exposed by an MCP server that Codex can call during a task.

Locally stored context Codex can reuse across sessions.

Permission for commands or environments to reach the internet.

CLI mode for running Codex from scripts or CI.

A long-lived worktree kept as its own project.

Codex's proposed or tracked steps for completing a task.

Plugin metadata file that identifies a plugin and points to bundled skills, connector mappings, MCP servers, hooks, and metadata.

Named configuration preset for Codex.

A group of related chats and shared sources, or a local folder used for file-based work.

Codex review of changes or feedback on a pull request.

Mode where Codex can inspect but not modify without approval.

Connection that lets you access ChatGPT or Codex chats on another device through a connected host.

Desktop app view for inspecting diffs, comments, and Git changes.

Enforced boundary limiting what Codex commands can access or modify.

SDK shorthand for common sandbox policies such as read-only, workspace-write, or full access.

One execution of a scheduled task, including its status and any resulting findings.

A scheduled task that uses an existing chat's context and returns each run's results to that chat.

Script run before the agent starts to install dependencies or prepare tools.

Explicit or implicit activation of a skill.

Scheduled task whose runs each start a new chat and report findings in Triage.

MCP server launched as a local process by a configured command and arguments.

Specialized child agent spawned to work on part of a task.

A defined outcome ChatGPT or Codex works toward, such as fixing a bug, creating a document, or researching a topic.

New thread branched from the stored history of an existing thread.

Default Codex cloud container image with common tools preinstalled.

Mode in ChatGPT for research, analysis, and creating documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and other finished work.

Directories Codex is allowed to modify.