The Frontier

Pash from OpenAI describes Codex's 'thread over time' feature. Threads persist with history and context, and agents can schedule their own next steps, reducing the overhead of daily catch-up tasks like scanning Slack and email.

Nick Bauman of OpenAI advocates for a 'monothread' approach in Codex. He keeps a single, long-lived thread that checks his Slack, Gmail, and GitHub hourly to filter noise into actionable signal, shifting from many short chats to a few persistent workstream threads.

Jason Liu provides a recipe for a 'Codex chief of staff'. It uses a local folder vault with an agents.md file, interviews the user to understand responsibilities, and proposes creating project notes and installing plugins like Slack and Gmail.

Perplexity Computer for Enterprise integrates with over 400 applications, including Slack, and runs multi-step workflows for research, coding, and design using multiple AI models.