Codex

Design Tools

Open Design 0.18.0 ends the 'is this the latest version?' meeting

Open Design 0.18.0 ships a shared Team workspace with live read-only mirrors and lets Codex call the design engine headlessly. 115 pull requests from 22 contributors landed in two days. Here's what changed and the agent-tooling trend it fits.

2026-08-21

Agentic design

Open Design 0.17.0 closes the prompt loop on Codex's last 10%

Codex Desktop and CLI can now call @open-design and get an editable artifact in Preview or Studio. The finishing pass moves to the canvas, with Manual Edit absorbing the small corrections, so the last 10% no longer needs a new prompt. 62 PRs, 23 contributors, 11 days.

2026-08-16

Codex just became the ChatGPT desktop app, not a separate tool

OpenAI folded Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS and Windows, adding inline code editing, GitHub PR reviews, multi-repo support, and faster Computer Use mode via GPT-5.6.

2026-07-14

OpenAI vs Anthropic

OpenAI just made workers you can schedule. Claude is still a chat.

OpenAI just made workers you can schedule: persistent, shared AI agents that run in the cloud and integrate with Slack. Anthropic's Claude, focused on single-session reasoning, has no answer yet.

2026-07-13

Special Report

OpenAI's bet on shared agents is the quietest shift in enterprise AI this year

OpenAI launches workspace agents: persistent, cloud-based AI workers that run across ChatGPT and Slack, handle multi-step workflows, and share context across teams. Free until May 6, 2026, then credit-based. A structural shift from GPTs to organizational AI.

2026-07-11