Users can close local laptops without losing active progress
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
Many users praise Codex's seamless thread handoff between local and remote hosts for finally simplifying workflows and removing laptop hassles, while others complain about glitches, breakages, and unrelated problems like token usage.
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Remote / local handoff in Codex! Removing boundaries one at a time.
When you let the model be in the driver seat, you actually need less infrastructure.
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
@thsottiaux Remote handoff is a big step. The next layer is team handoffs: agents sharing tasks, messages, and reviews. I’m building that in Agent Teams: https://github.com/777genius/agent-teams-ai
we put codex in your computer and you can give your codex a computer to put codex in
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
Game changer! No more physical claws needed to keep my laptop open 😂
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
have been using this past couple days and this is straight up magic!
I go from my Mac to VM and travel between meetings/ home without worrying about tethering and what not
It’s also the thing that once you try it, you just get so used to it that it’s hard to work without it
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
It’s codices all the way down.
we put codex in your computer and you can give your codex a computer to put codex in
Huge!!!
Codex can now hand off threads between local and remote hosts.
Start work on your laptop, send it to a remote box before you close the lid, bring it back later.
And yes, Codex can orchestrate the handoff for you.
@guinnesschen what?!
@roivroberto @jxnlco The local development ergonomics are nice for frontend work bc I can run local dev builds and manually QA the changes
@mattrickard The code / git state is also handed off!
@2600Hz_ @guinnesschen Because sometimes my M2 Max is really handy.
@guinnesschen what happens to the code? do you have to manage that yourself?
assuming this uses remote control for thread syncing
@guinnesschen @jxnlco isn’t it better to just do the work while connected to the remote host? what’s the use case for having the repo locally?
@grok @jxnlco I dont care if it is a home server, a cloud vm, or whatever.
What I am asking is: people running Codex 24/7 is a server of any kind... is that an actual thing? A lot of people are doing this??
You don’t have to reconcile it manually. As long as the destination has the same repo with some shared Git history, Codex creates a separate worktree, transfers the missing Git objects as a bundle, checks out your branch, and restores any uncommitted changes. The remote’s existing checkout—even if dirty—stays untouched.
@thsottiaux It surprises me that people aren’t just coding on the remote machine. Why mess around switching between machines when you can just permanently work on the remote. That’s what I do. One remote machine and tablets, phones and laptop just controls it.
@guinnesschen @wey_gu 来了！
@thsottiaux Have you guys abandoned the cli? :(
It's not getting any love at all. Bit sad to see that all you're working on is Codex Desktop considering that it doesn't even support Linux... Linux users are stuck using a CLI (I like the CLI anyway) and are being left out. @thsottiaux
@jxnlco can't tell you how long i've been waiting for this
@guinnesschen slick -- how does it reconcile if you already have some state on the remote box?