Add a documented way to open Codex Desktop on a workspace with a prefilled initial prompt or session
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 3, 2026 by LemuelCushing
What variant of Codex are you using?
App (GUI)
What feature would you like to see?
codex app [PATH] can open Codex Desktop on a workspace, and codex [PROMPT] can start a CLI session with an initial prompt.
I could not find a documented way to combine those two behaviors: open Codex Desktop on a workspace and also pre-seed the initial prompt or session.
A documented solution for any of these would help:
- open Codex Desktop on a workspace and start a new thread with a supplied prompt
- open Codex Desktop on a workspace and prefill the composer with a supplied prompt
- expose a documented app-server / remote-control API for creating a new desktop thread with initial user content
Examples:
codex app /path/to/repo --prompt "..."
or
codex app /path/to/repo --prompt-file /tmp/prompt.txt
Today I can find:
- codex [PROMPT] for CLI startup
- codex app [PATH] for desktop workspace open
But I cannot find a documented bridge between them.
Additional information
This would make it much easier to build task-specific local launchers and workflow entrypoints that hand off into Codex Desktop without losing startup context.
Right now those launchers have to choose between:
- CLI with proper prompt injection
- Desktop app with no documented startup prompt handoff