# Codex (OpenAI)

Codex is a standalone vertical AI agent from OpenAI. OpenAI's coding agent, which works through tasks in its own sandbox and hands back the changes with logs and test results. Nearfi's Agent Index rates its autonomy 4/5 (multi-step on its own): each task runs in its own container and returns changes with logs and test output; it completes the work alone, but a person must verify and merge it. Status: live; 0 incident(s) logged.

Source: https://nearfi.co/agents/openai-codex

- Category: Coding · vertical · Standalone
- What it does: Codex launched in May 2025 as a research preview of a cloud agent: each task runs in an isolated container preloaded with your repository, and the agent returns its changes with terminal logs and test output for you to review. There is also an open-source command-line version. Codex now sits in the ChatGPT desktop app alongside ChatGPT Work, and OpenAI said in June 2026 that it had more than 5 million weekly active users.
- Limits: At launch it could not fully test applications with live user interfaces, and a person still has to verify and merge its work. Its usage figures are OpenAI's own and have not been independently checked.