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My Codex feature requests

OpenAI Developer Community June 23, 2026
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Feature request: Codex overnight command center for pinned chats I would like to request a native Codex command center that can manage my pinned Codex chats and keep working on approved tasks throughout the night. The problem: Right now, Codex does not seem to have true overnight task management across multiple chats. The current functionality seems closer to manual prompting or heartbeats. That does not solve what I am looking for. What I want is simple: I want to give Codex a main goal before I step away, have Codex work on that goal throughout the night, and have useful completed work ready for me by the morning. Desired behavior: 1. I open one main Codex command center chat. 2. I give it a larger goal. 3. The command center breaks that goal into smaller tasks. 4. The command center assigns those tasks to my pinned Codex chats or worker threads. 5. Each worker chat focuses on one part of the job. 6. Each worker chat reports its status, such as: working blocked complete needs approval 7. When a worker chat finishes, the command center reads the result. 8. The command center then assigns the next task automatically. 9. The system keeps working while I am away, including overnight. 10. In the morning, Codex gives me a clear summary of: what got done what changed what is blocked what needs approval what I should do next I am not asking for simple reminders or scheduled prompts. I am asking for persistent task coordination where Codex can manage ongoing work across pinned chats while I am away. Safety rules should still apply: 1. No spending money without approval. 2. No sending emails, texts, forms, or public messages without approval. 3. No deploying code without approval. 4. No deleting important data without approval. 5. Read-only work should be allowed, including research, planning, analysis, auditing, drafting, and preparing code changes for review. The main value: This would let Codex act more like an overnight project manager. I could define the goal, set the rules, go to sleep, and wake up with the work organized, partially or fully completed, and ready for my review. The key feature request is native Codex multi-chat orchestration: one command center that manages pinned worker chats continuously and safely, without needing manual heartbeats from the user.

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