Codex Live: Duplex voice collaboration with an active Codex session

What variant of Codex are you using?

Codex desktop app on Windows, including long-running local and remote sessions

What feature would you like to see?

Summary

Please allow ChatGPT Live Mode to attach directly to an active Codex session, so that the user can have a continuous duplex voice conversation with Codex while it keeps planning, coding, running commands, testing, and coordinating subagents.

This is not merely voice input or speech-to-text for Codex. It is continuous, shared-state collaboration between the human and a running coding agent.

Proposed experience

A user starts a long-running task in Codex and opens Live Mode attached to the same session. Codex continues working while the user speaks with it naturally.

The user could say:

• “Explain the authentication architecture while you continue working.”
• “Do not modify the existing database schema.”
• “Ask a subagent to investigate that deployment failure.”
• “What did the testing agent just report?”
• “Pause this part and reconsider the approach.”
• “Continue working, but ask me before any destructive operation.”

Codex could also surface important developments during the conversation:

• a blocker has been discovered;
• tests revealed a deeper problem;
• a subagent returned an important finding;
• a major assumption has changed;
• the implementation is deviating from the approved plan;
• an operation requires human approval.

Routine terminal activity should remain quiet unless the user asks for it.

Shared session state

Live Mode and Codex should share the same session state, including:

• the current objective and plan;
• files changed during the session;
• terminal and tool activity;
• test results;
• active subagents and their reports;
• blockers and pending approvals;
• relevant repository instructions, specifications, and memory files.

Instructions spoken through Live Mode should immediately steer the running Codex session without requiring the user to submit another disconnected prompt.

The ideal model is one agent with two simultaneous interfaces:

1. An operational interface where Codex edits files, runs tools, tests, and delegates work.
2. A conversational interface where the human observes, questions, interrupts, redirects, and collaborates in real time.

Why this matters

The current coding-agent workflow is mostly turn-based:

1. Give Codex a task.
2. Wait for it to work.
3. Read the result.
4. Discover a misunderstanding or remember another requirement.
5. Submit another prompt and wait again.

A duplex session would allow the human to remain cognitively present while execution continues. Requirements could be clarified, bad assumptions interrupted, investigations delegated, and architectural decisions discussed before an incorrect approach spreads through the codebase.

This would feel less like submitting jobs to a remote process and more like sitting beside a senior engineer who is coding, investigating, delegating, and speaking with you simultaneously.

Controls and safety

The user should be able to:

• pause, resume, or cancel work through speech;
• interrupt Codex immediately;
• require approval for destructive or expensive actions;
• choose which events should interrupt the conversation;
• mute routine narration;
• request status summaries on demand;
• inspect active subagents and their findings;
• use an “exceptions only” reporting mode.

Examples of actions that could require approval include production deployments, destructive database changes, deletion of resources, authentication changes, operations involving credentials, and actions with financial cost.

Core request

Please integrate ChatGPT Live Mode with active Codex sessions so users can continuously converse with, observe, interrupt, question, and redirect Codex while it continues working.

The central feature is continuous duplex collaboration with one shared state—not merely adding voice input to the existing prompt box.

Additional information

Example scenario

Codex is implementing a feature while several subagents investigate testing, architecture, and deployment.

During the Live conversation, the testing agent reports that the proposed authentication change conflicts with the existing schema. Codex says:

“The authentication investigation found a schema conflict. I have paused that portion of the implementation. Would you like me to explain the conflict or investigate alternatives?”

The user discusses the issue with Codex, selects an alternative, and Codex resumes immediately. The coding session never needs to stop and restart as a series of disconnected prompt-response cycles.

This could also work when accessing a desktop Codex session remotely. A user away from the computer could speak with the active session, receive important reports, redirect subagents, approve decisions, and ask Codex to explain the codebase while work continues.

Possible names:

• Codex Live
• Live Codex Session
• Duplex Codex
• Continuous Collaboration Mode
• Voice Mission Control