Thomas RicouardFeb 3

I've been testing the Codex official macOS app for the last couple of weeks. Yes, funny, I know! But I didn't know they were making their own until a week after I started and released Codex Monitor!

It's OpenAI's take on the IDE of the future, and it's pretty good!

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First: you can download it here: http://chatgpt.com/codex

Now, about some of the features👇

Codex

A cloud-based software engineering agent that answers codebase questions, executes code, and drafts pull requests.

ChatGPT
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You can see all your agents' threads per workspace in the sidebar and quickly switch between them.

It has most of what I ever wanted from those new kinds of agentic/orchestrator IDEs.

And no, no code editor, we all agree on that!

Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3

You can also manage and edit your skills and install new ones from an ever-growing marketplace of skills! Also within the new Codex app!

Can't wait to see where this will go. Skills have been a bit messy, with a ton of libraries and repos all over the place.

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Another awesome feature is that you can easily start new agents locally, in a worktree, or as a cloud agent. To me, that's a super powerful feature! Your worktree and cloud agents are combined in the sidebar. And you can easily apply cloud/worktree changes on your local repo.
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Another feature they have is automation! You can create an agent cron job that runs on a specific day at a specific time. In my case, I have a daily review of my open PR and issues, but what you can do is pretty limitless!
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About worktree: the Codex app has a very cool feature. Once you have changes on a worktree, you can sync the change to your local repo, it'll create a branch for you and keep it in sync between your worktree and repo.

This is amazing and makes Worktree much better to work with!

Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
And it also has all the features you expect from this kind of new, agentic-driven environment. A sidebar with the git diff changes, a terminal, a way to quickly add and sort workspaces, easy access to all Codex /commands, plan and code mode, etc... And multiple run commands!
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All in all, it's a very solid first release! I can't recommend it enough; this is truly the flow of the future, and I'll only improve from there.

It has many different features from Codex Monitor. I see my own app as a simpler/leaner version of the Codex official app.

Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕Feb 3
@dimillian I gave it a quick try (I wanted to test automations) but after I created my first one, I don't get the initial "wizard" screen anymore. Clicking on "New" only gets me this. Am I using it wrong?
Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
@andreagrandi Hmmm I can do the + up there
Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕
@dimillian I can do it too, but if you remember, the first time you pressed it you got a sort of "wizard" or a window with a few template. I picked one (the repo summary) and I wanted to test the others but they are gone. I can manually write the whole prompt, sure, but it's not the same thing
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Show threadThomas RicouardFeb 3
@andreagrandi yep don't know how you get back this wizard, I'll ask