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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Is Testing a Codex Mode That Keeps Working Until a User Stops It
Code reviewed by WIRED describes an agent that generates its own follow-up tasks across sessions and can message a user unprompted.
OpenAI is building a persistent mode for Codex, its coding agent, according to code that WIRED reviewed and that several outlets have since described. The setting appears in the reasoning-effort menu and lets the agent spend compute, tokens…
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