Support remote development over SSH (remote hosts / remote workspaces)

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

Please add support for remote development over SSH, so Codex can work with code stored on remote servers instead of only local projects.

Problem

In many real-world workflows, the development environment is not on the local machine. Code often lives on:

• Linux servers
• GPU workstations
• cloud VMs
• HPC / cluster environments
• internal development machines behind SSH access

Right now, Codex works well for local projects, but it is hard to adopt in workflows where the source code, build tools, datasets, and runtime environment are all on a remote machine.

Why this matters

A lot of development tasks cannot be done locally because of one or more of these constraints:

• the server has the required toolchain or dependencies
• the project depends on GPUs or specialized hardware
• the codebase is too large to mirror locally
• data or repositories must stay inside a secured remote environment
• users already rely on SSH-based workflows and remote terminals every day

Without SSH remote support, Codex is much harder to use as a primary coding tool in professional environments.

Requested capability

Ideally, Codex could support something like:

• connecting to a remote host over SSH
• opening a remote workspace / remote directory
• reading and editing files on the remote machine
• running commands, builds, and tests remotely
• preserving the same Codex experience while the execution environment is remote

Example use cases

• Working on a codebase stored on a remote Linux server
• Using Codex on an SSH-accessible GPU machine for ML / hardware / verification tasks
• Developing on a cloud VM where all dependencies are already configured
• Using Codex in a university or enterprise cluster where local development is not practical

Suggested UX

Something similar to “Remote SSH” style workflows would be ideal, but any solution that lets Codex operate directly on remote environments would already be very valuable.

Additional context

I often work on remote servers where the source code and tools are already set up. I would like to use Codex without copying projects back to my local machine or changing my existing SSH-based workflow.

Additional information

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