Since last spring, OpenAI has offered the Codex. What began life as the company’s response Claude Code BECOMES something more sophisticated with the release of a new dedicated macOS app. In its most basic form, Codex is a programming agent that can write code for users, but now it can also manage multiple AI assistants that can work together to complete more complex tasks.

OpenAI provides an example of how this works in practice. The company used Codex to create a Mario Kart-like racing game, complete with a selection of different sports cars, eight tracks and a collection of powerups that players can use against the competition. For an AI agent, creating a game from scratch, with all the necessary visual assets, can be a difficult question, but Codex is able to complete the task because it can delegate the task of creating the game to different models with complementary capabilities.

For example, it goes back to GPT Image for visual assets, while a separate model simultaneously codes the web game. “It takes the roles of the designer, game developer and QA tester to validate its work by actually playing the game,” OpenAI said of the process.

If it’s that complicated, OpenAI tries to make it more approachable in a section of the app titled Skills. The feature bundles “instructions, resources, and scripts so Codex can reliably connect devices, run workflows, and complete tasks the way your team wants,” the company explained. “The Codex app includes a dedicated interface to create and manage skills. You can explicitly ask Codex to use specific skills, or let it automatically use them based on the task at hand.”

As you can imagine, Codex can also automate repetitive tasks. The dedicated Automations section of the app allows you to schedule tasks, which the software completes in the background. “At OpenAI, we use Automations to manage repetitive but important tasks, such as daily issue triage, finding and summarizing CI failures, creating daily release briefs, checking bugs, etc.,” the company said.

The release of the Codex macOS app comes as AI startups explore what a team of AI agents working together can do. At the beginning of the year, Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, found It is possible to create a working web browser from scratch using such a method, although it has encountered problems along the way.

For a limited time, OpenAI has made Codex available on ChatGPT for Free and Go users so they can see what is possible with this new software. At the same time, the company doubled the rates for Plus and Pro subscribers.