Claude Code-like remote control
What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI
What feature would you like to see?
In Claude Code I can just type /remote-control, then open it in the mobile app. The reason why this is useful is there is no needs for SSH tunnels etc and it sync messages across CLI and Mobile. So I can go in the terminal and type something and it shows up in the mobile and and I can type something in the mobile app and it will show up in the terminal session. This is very useful if you mostly use the Terminal, but sometimes want to continue on Mobile.
The current remote control seems to be able to maybe support parts of it in some roundabout way, but without any simple way to connect and without the ability to sync CLI session and Mobile/App session in realtime in the same way as far as I can tell.
Maybe this is how it is planned already, but it would be useful if the app server or daemon could be connected to using the Mobile App, CLI or Desktop App without needing SSH to tunnel in. So that means app server connecting to OpenAI server to setup and end-to-end encrypted connection from the server so each client could connect through OpenAI servers instead of connecting to the app server directly, then CLI, Mobile App and Desktop App all just being clients to the server.
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+1, I'm extremely disappointed in Codex' implementation of this. It feels like it was rushed just to check off some internal checkbox
I tried making a workaround, but there are other bugs/unsupported features that makes it impossible. My project runs on Linux, so I setup codex app server with remote control on a linux VM, then on a Windows VM I setup the Codex windows app with an SSH connection to the Linux VM. On the Codex Windows app I can see the remote SSH project, but if I connect them mobile app or codex app from my laptop, neither of these can see the SSH project (nor any other projects from the Windows App)
As a Linux-first Codex CLI user, I strongly support this request. The current limitation makes the mobile Remote Control feature effectively unavailable for users whose primary development environment is Linux.
Claude Code's model is much closer to the expected workflow: start remote control directly from the terminal session, open the mobile app, and continue the exact same session with synchronized messages and approvals. Requiring a macOS or Windows desktop app as an intermediary defeats the purpose for headless Linux machines, home workstations, VPSs, and server-first workflows.
The key feature request is straightforward: allow
codex/codex remote-controlon Linux to pair directly with ChatGPT mobile, without a desktop-app relay, while preserving the same live CLI session, approvals, diffs, test output, and terminal state.For users who deliberately choose a terminal-first workflow, this is not a niche convenience; it is a major usability gap compared with Claude Code.
I've found that 0.143 added a new command "codex remote-control pair" that generates a pairing code and it works to pair ChatGPT mobile with Linux using this.
Thanks a lots ! Works great
macOS CLI user on Codex 0.144.5.
codex remote-control pairgenerated a pairing code, but the ChatGPT mobile Remote screen offered no visible way to enter it; initial setup still required the desktop app and its QR flow.The desired experience is to expose the current visible CLI session directly through
codex --remote-controlor/remote-control, with a URL or QR code, and synchronize messages, approvals, diffs, tests, and terminal output with ChatGPT mobile—similar to Claude Code.