14th July 2026 - Link Blog
simonw/pedalican. Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own.
So I did, and now I have a cute little pelican on a bicycle bouncing around my desktop giving me updates on my Codex tasks.
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The most interesting thing about this process was watching how the custom pet was created. I told it I wanted a custom pet that was a pelican riding a bicycle and GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh did the rest of the work, using several rounds with gpt-image-2 to generate the necessary sprite assets.
