Get the Codex Operator Playbook

Three million developers use OpenAI Codex every week. Most use ten percent of it. This playbook covers all eight moves that turn Codex from a chatbot into an autonomous coding operator. MOVE 1 INSTALL — npm i -g @openai/codex or brew install, codex login, first prompt, four models (GPT-5.5, 5.4, 5.3-Codex, Spark) switchable mid-session with /model. MOVE 2 SANDBOX — three modes (read-only, workspace-write, full-access), kernel-enforced containment (macOS Seatbelt, Linux bubblewrap, Windows native Sandbox), approval policies. MOVE 3 /GOAL — the autonomous loop that ran fourteen hours overnight building a device driver, SQLite-backed status tracking, pause/resume/view commands, the three keys (clear output, verification mechanism, bounded scope). MOVE 4 PLUGINS — 111+ marketplace, 12 official (GitHub, Slack, Linear, Sentry, Figma, Notion, Gmail, Drive, Vercel, Cloudflare, Box, HuggingFace), install/list/upgrade/share commands. MOVE 5 SUBAGENTS — three built-in types (default, worker, explorer), custom TOML agents, six concurrent max, CSV batch processing (one agent per row). MOVE 6 SKILLS — SKILL.md reusable playbooks, three storage locations, $skill-creator and $skill-installer built-ins, agentskills.io open standard. MOVE 7 AUTOMATIONS — standalone (cron schedule) and thread (heartbeat wake-ups), skills define the method, automations define the schedule. MOVE 8 CLOUD + EXTRAS — isolated container execution, Appshots, codex exec headless mode, first-party GitHub Action. Plus the 30-minute on-ramp with eight time-boxed milestones.

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