Feature request: mobile companion to view and control Codex desktop sessions
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
I would like a mobile companion experience for Codex App so I can view and control an active desktop session from my phone.
A concrete version of this would be:
- See the current desktop session status, transcript, pending tasks, and terminal/tool activity from a phone.
- Send follow-up instructions or approvals from the phone while the main Codex session keeps running on desktop.
- Resume, pause, or stop a desktop task remotely.
- Get mobile notifications when Codex needs approval, finishes a task, or gets blocked.
This would be similar to the remote/mobile control workflow people use with Claude Code, where the desktop or local agent does the work, but the phone acts as a lightweight control surface.
Why this would help:
- Many Codex tasks run for a while, so it is useful to monitor progress away from the desk.
- Approval steps currently require being back at the desktop at the right moment.
- For longer coding or debugging tasks, a phone view would make Codex much more practical in real workflows.
Even a first version with read-only session viewing + push notifications + simple reply/approve actions would already be very useful.
Additional information
A few implementation directions that could work:
- Pair a phone with the signed-in desktop Codex app.
- Expose an optional secure remote session channel for the active desktop task.
- Support read-only mode first, then remote input / approval actions.
The key thing is not full IDE editing on mobile. The valuable part is being able to supervise and steer a desktop Codex session from a phone.
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