Add a first-class Remote section to the Codex Desktop sidebar
What feature would you like to see?
Please add a clearly visible Remote section to the Codex Desktop sidebar, matching the Remote entry in the ChatGPT mobile app.
Codex Desktop already has remote-control capabilities through settings/connections, but the workflow is difficult to discover and does not feel like a first-class part of the desktop product. A dedicated sidebar destination would make it obvious that one desktop can connect to and control another Codex host.
Requested workflow
- Codex runs on a primary workstation or build machine.
- A second computer running Codex Desktop signs into the same account or pairs securely.
- The second computer opens Remote from the sidebar.
- It selects the primary workstation.
- The user can continue existing threads, start new tasks, inspect diffs and terminal output, approve actions, and monitor running work.
This request is specifically about Codex-to-Codex remote control, not generic SSH access or remote server administration.
Suggested sidebar
Projects
Automations
Plugins
Remote
Why this would help
- Makes desktop-to-desktop Remote Control easy to discover.
- Provides feature parity with the ChatGPT mobile Remote experience.
- Lets users keep repositories, credentials, build tools, and execution on the host machine.
- Makes it practical to continue long-running Codex work from a laptop or another desktop.
- Creates a natural place for host status, pairing, permissions, active sessions, and connection diagnostics.
Ideally, this would reuse the existing Remote Control infrastructure and expose it as a persistent, first-class desktop surface rather than hiding it under settings.
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