Add "open in" support for JetBrains/Pycharm apps in Codex Desktop

Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Feb 3, 2026 by corrylc Closed Feb 4, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What feature would you like to see?

Codex Desktop currently supports a variety of IDEs/editors for opening the project/files, but nothing from JetBrains, such as PyCharm.

Adding support for JetBrains IDEs would expand the user base for this feature greatly, and should be possible by calling out to the IDE with something like open -na "PyCharm.app" --args "$FOLDER"

Alternately, if direct support isn't desirable, allowing the user to call an arbitrary command via config would be much appreciated.

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8 Comments

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Thanks for the feature request. The app does include several JetBrains products, but only if it detects their presence. It's possible that our detection logic is incomplete or buggy. We'll look into it.

corrylc · 5 months ago

Oh interesting! Yes it does seem to be missing them on my box. Let me know if there is anything else you need from me.

aravhawk · 5 months ago

Oh interesting! Yes it does seem to be missing them on my box. Let me know if there is anything else you need from me. <img alt="Image" width="432" height="349" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/134425864/544063124-0531e4fc-69be-4fbd-890e-4caf928bc866.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAwOTAzOTMsIm5iZiI6MTc3MDA5MDA5MywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMzQ0MjU4NjQvNTQ0MDYzMTI0LTA1MzFlNGZjLTY5YmUtNGZiZC04OTBlLTRjYWY5MjhiYzg2Ni5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjAzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIwM1QwMzQxMzNaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT0xYmQ5NjY3MWYzZDkyNDIyNTA3Y2Y0MDllNjRmYjYzZWQ4ZjRlNjk5Yjk2MWI2N2Q1Y2JlN2RkNDU0YjRhNzA2JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.crTzIQzu2A1CRnrfeeHNbD3jKoXRsKh6z4nDw8Ck3tU"> <img alt="Image" width="296" height="290" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/134425864/544063123-0c5ae56f-b521-4c10-bbb1-2a4911fb5a19.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAwOTAzOTMsIm5iZiI6MTc3MDA5MDA5MywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMzQ0MjU4NjQvNTQ0MDYzMTIzLTBjNWFlNTZmLWI1MjEtNGMxMC1iYmIxLTJhNDkxMWZiNWExOS5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjAzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIwM1QwMzQxMzNaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1mMTc1NmVlYzY0ZDY1YTY4NWY0MGNhODljNmFiMjhkZTA2YzgyNTJhNjdhZWY0MjBkNmU5OGZlMDY2ZWY0NTM0JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.FLqkZU-w7i_aT7XPYmre75kYjJ0IUpWTZ15S6y_QGsE">

Facing the same issue. Likely due to Codex Desktop scanning only /Applications and not ~/Applications. Described that in #10463.

miraclebakelaser contributor · 5 months ago

@etraut-openai would appreciate support for Zed as well.

Geofront33 · 5 months ago

> Oh interesting! Yes it does seem to be missing them on my box. Let me know if there is anything else you need from me. > <img alt="Image" width="432" height="349" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/134425864/544063124-0531e4fc-69be-4fbd-890e-4caf928bc866.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAwOTAzOTMsIm5iZiI6MTc3MDA5MDA5MywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMzQ0MjU4NjQvNTQ0MDYzMTI0LTA1MzFlNGZjLTY5YmUtNGZiZC04OTBlLTRjYWY5MjhiYzg2Ni5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjAzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIwM1QwMzQxMzNaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT0xYmQ5NjY3MWYzZDkyNDIyNTA3Y2Y0MDllNjRmYjYzZWQ4ZjRlNjk5Yjk2MWI2N2Q1Y2JlN2RkNDU0YjRhNzA2JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.crTzIQzu2A1CRnrfeeHNbD3jKoXRsKh6z4nDw8Ck3tU"> <img alt="Image" width="296" height="290" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/134425864/544063123-0c5ae56f-b521-4c10-bbb1-2a4911fb5a19.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAwOTAzOTMsIm5iZiI6MTc3MDA5MDA5MywicGF0aCI6Ii8xMzQ0MjU4NjQvNTQ0MDYzMTIzLTBjNWFlNTZmLWI1MjEtNGMxMC1iYmIxLTJhNDkxMWZiNWExOS5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwMjAzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDIwM1QwMzQxMzNaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1mMTc1NmVlYzY0ZDY1YTY4NWY0MGNhODljNmFiMjhkZTA2YzgyNTJhNjdhZWY0MjBkNmU5OGZlMDY2ZWY0NTM0JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.FLqkZU-w7i_aT7XPYmre75kYjJ0IUpWTZ15S6y_QGsE"> Facing the same issue. Likely due to Codex Desktop scanning only /Applications and not ~/Applications. Described that in #10463.

Same here. My CLion/PyCharm/IntelliJ IDEA are all installed under /Applications, but only CLion isn’t being detected. So it seems like there may be another bug beyond just scanning /Applications vs ~/Applications.

apotenza92 · 5 months ago

+1 for Zed as well! Thank you.

corrylc · 5 months ago

This appears to be fixed for PyCharm, IntelliJ, and even Zed, as of 260204.1342 (531). Thanks!

luyi404 · 5 months ago

Needs Clion support