This screenshot shows OpenAI’s new Codex desktop release (on Mac only for now), or, as many describe it, a gradually evolving “super app”.
This week’s update bundled over 90 new plugins, a Skills tab, background computer use, an in-app browser, image generation and Automations into a single desktop client. The featured connectors on screen — GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear, Statsig, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive — reveal the ambition: one agent surface that spans code, comms, docs and calendars.
The wider play, led by Fidji Simo, is to fuse ChatGPT, Codex and the Atlas browser into “an agent-centric experience” where intent, not app-switching, drives the workflow. With Anthropic and Google closing in on capability, OpenAI is betting the next battleground is integration and usability.