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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! 🧵for more

First: you can download it here: chatgpt.com/codex Now, about some of the features👇

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.