Work with Codex from anywhere
Key Points
- Codex in ChatGPT mobile app (preview)
- Remote SSH and Hooks are generally available
- Programmatic tokens and HIPAA support for enterprise
Summary
Codex is available in preview inside the ChatGPT mobile app (iOS & Android) so engineers can monitor and steer long-running tasks running on laptops, devboxes, or managed remote environments. The mobile experience loads live state from the connected environment and streams screenshots, terminal output, diffs, test results, approvals, and context while keeping files, credentials, and compute on the host machine via a secure relay.
Key Points
- Mobile preview: update the ChatGPT mobile app (and Codex macOS app) to access active threads, approve commands, review outputs, change models, or start new work from your phone. Windows phone support is coming soon.
- Remote environments: Remote SSH is GA; the desktop app detects SSH hosts so you can run projects and threads in remote machines and access them across authorized ChatGPT devices through the secure relay.
- Team & infra features:
- Hooks (GA) — scan prompts, run validators, log conversations, create memories, and customize Codex behavior per repo/dir.
- Programmatic access tokens — scoped credentials for CI, release workflows, and internal automations (available on Enterprise and Business plans).
- HIPAA support — HIPAA-compliant use of Codex in local environments (CLI, IDE, App) is supported for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces.
- Security and architecture: a secure relay layer keeps hosts reachable without direct public exposure and synchronizes active session state across devices.
- Availability notes: mobile preview rolling out across plans and regions; Remote SSH and Hooks on all plans; programmatic tokens on Enterprise/Business; HIPAA support only for eligible Enterprise workspaces when using local environments.
Practical actions for engineers
- Update ChatGPT mobile and Codex macOS apps to try the preview.
- Add your remote hosts to SSH config and verify desktop detection for Remote SSH.
- Use Hooks to enforce secrets scanning and validators in CI or pre-merge workflows.
- Provision programmatic tokens for automated pipelines (Enterprise/Business).
- Confirm HIPAA eligibility and local-environment usage before adopting in healthcare workflows.