OpenAI just made automation a lot more visual. The company’s new Record & Replay plugin for Codex lets users simply perform a task on their Mac, and the AI watches, learns, and packages it into a repeatable skill.
A user initiates the Record & Replay plugin, performs their workflow as they normally would, and Codex captures the entire sequence. The AI then converts that recorded demonstration into what OpenAI calls a “skill,” a reusable automation that can be triggered again without manual intervention. Filing expenses, booking parking spots, publishing videos: instead of describing these workflows in textual prompts, you just do them once while Codex takes notes.
The feature is currently exclusive to macOS users.
Once a skill is created, teams can share these developed skills broadly, meaning one employee’s recorded workflow can become the entire department’s automation.
Codex’s growing plugin ecosystem
