Codex as an App on ChatGPT

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

This is more of a feature request that is for ChatGPT, but it is for integrating Codex as an App on it, so I figured I would post it here.

Basically, we currently kind of have the opposite now, with the Codex App, but what I'm really looking for, is the ability to directly have ChatGPT use Codex as an App within ChatGPT, where the ChatGPT would be able to run Codex as an App that is linked to your local system running Codex. So the Codex agent would run within your system and work on code within your repo (or anything else), and ChatGPT would have access and visibility of the changes made and files available for it to view (with permissions of course) through Codex, by explicitly calling it as an app within ChatGPT.

The workflow I am looking for, is basically being able to use ChatGPT's Pro model, as a head orchestrator, with me in the loop within a chat or project, that can make high-level or planned decisions about the project, and having ChatGPT within the loop instead of out of the loop when it comes to interacting with or delegating to Codex, because currently, there is a gap between the two.

Problem

ChatGPT cannot view or have access to the files or code you are working on, unless you literally attach it for it to view. This is obviously the disconnect and difference between Codex and ChatGPT. But there should be an integration. I do MOST if not ALL of my primary, high-level, base planning within ChatGPT, as I am sure many of you also do, before passing it over to Codex, where maybe the project's docs and code itself becomes the context for Codex to then continue from and do the actual implementation. Yes, you might do intermediate planning, for specific tasks within the repo that you are working on. But all of my business or core project planning and specification workflow happens inside of ChatGPT. This is where there is a big gap, where you cannot effectively allow ChatGPT to directly access or orchestrate Codex.

It fills the void of having things like OpenClaw, or other tools that are outside of the bounds of ChatGPT, where they use other chat or messaging apps to interact with Codex. I am honestly quite surprised that ChatGPT has not been the core integration that clearly is missing.

With the Codex App, it's the first step in the right direction. But by directly putting Codex as an App within ChatGPT itself, should be the nature next step. I imagine being able to have my entire project context and planning done within ChatGPT, then allowing it, through the Pro model, to directly delegate and call Codex Agents to then execute and implement the plan/code, while being able to access the project/repo files/code directly within ChatGPT inside of a chat conversation, which can review the work done by the Codex agents, so it can then proceed with the next step in the plan or make decisions based on the work that the Codex agent did.

Right now, I essentially have to jump back and forth between the ephemeral Codex sessions where the agent executes and does implementation (and intermediate planning), then switch back to my project in ChatGPT, where my headquarters for the project is, and all the project discussions and chats are, to then provide it with the progress that Codex made, before we can continue our conversation about the project which happens exclusively in ChatGPT. Because this is the line in the sand, between ChatGPT being a more permanent store of knowledge and records, memories of the bigger picture operational or business side of the project, versus the engineering and product development side on Codex.

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