OpenAI Developers livestreams what it is building with Codex, covering cloud environments that keep running and new Codex CLI features
Here’s what we’re cooking with Codex:
Context
The stream shows OpenAI pushing Codex toward long running cloud tasks and more agent management in the terminal, the main battleground with rival coding agents.
This is first hand from OpenAI's official developer account, but the post is a livestream link and the feature details come from its follow up post rather than from release notes. OpenAI did not give availability dates or plan limits for the features in the posts.
Deep dive
On October 19, OpenAI Developers posted a livestream titled by the line here is what we are cooking with Codex.
In a follow up post, the account described the stream. A dot, one of ChatGPT's always on agents, helps three people with a ramen recipe and keeps the prep in ChatGPT Space, while GPT Live 1 talks them through making it. The stream covers Codex cloud environments, where tasks can keep running after you close your laptop, and what is new in the Codex CLI: talking to Codex in your terminal, keeping track of your agents, and forking a conversation into a separate worktree.
The post said Matthew Berman and an account called ForwardEditor join to build an 8 bit ramen game with Ultrafast, OpenAI's fast mode for GPT 6.1 Sol, and play it on a ModRetro handheld. The stream also shows community projects, from a retro space shooter to a game where you draw your own racehorse. Earlier in the day the account asked followers what they had been cooking with Codex, and later posted a roundup of community projects.
The posts do not say which of the CLI features are newly released and which are previews.
Update: Later that afternoon, OpenAI's Codex lead Tibo quoted the livestream post with his Day 15 entry, writing only: Day 15/ We're cooked. He did not announce a reset or a new feature with it.
What to expect next
Watch the official Codex changelog for entries on cloud environments, voice in the CLI, agent tracking and worktree forking, which will show what actually shipped and to which plans. Developers will judge cloud tasks that keep running on how reliable they are and how much usage they consume. Also watch Tibo's daily Codex posts, which often follow these streams with resets or small updates.