OpenAI is enhancing its Codex AI agent with a Persistent mode, enabling proactive and continuous functionality, as revealed through recent updates to its command line tool.

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

OpenAI is building a persistent Codex feature that lets its AI coding agent work autonomously for days, scheduling tasks and waking itself up