Feature Request: Official Taskboard and Agent Orchestration Extension APIs for Codex
What variant of Codex are you using?
26.730.61309
What feature would you like to see?
e would like Codex to support taskboard and managed-agent workflows similar to Multica.
Community projects such as Dashi can already demonstrate the desired experience, but currently depend on unauthenticated CDP injection because Codex does not expose a supported UI extension API.
We propose an official, permission-scoped extension SDK providing:
Sidebar item and sandboxed panel/WebView registration
APIs to create, list, open, and associate Codex threads/tasks
Project, repository, branch, and worktree bindings
Agent dispatch, cancellation, approval, logs, and progress events
Deep links into Codex projects and conversations
Secure localhost/MCP/App UI integration with explicit CSP and permission controls
This would enable taskboards, multi-agent assignment, scheduled work, progress monitoring, and reusable workflow skills without modifying the Codex application or exposing a CDP debugging port.
We have a working local prototype based on Dashi Taskboard and would be willing to provide implementation feedback or testing.
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Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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Thank you for identifying these related requests. I reviewed both:
#36649 requests a general VS Code-like plugin system, mainly for themes, project trees, and skill management.
#36694 requests stable headless thread-steering and app-server APIs for external controllers.
This request is related to both, but covers a distinct end-to-end use case: a native Codex Desktop taskboard and agent workflow surface that connects projects, issues, repositories, worktrees, agent execution, approvals, and lifecycle events.
A general plugin system alone would not provide the required task lifecycle APIs, while a headless app-server API alone would not provide the Desktop task-management UI.
I therefore believe this issue is complementary rather than a full duplicate. It may also serve as a concrete use case for defining the minimum UI and task APIs needed by approved Codex extensions.