Codex works well with images, but long-running visual workflows can become slow and brittle when generated assets, reference images, raw provider responses, and repeated QA results accumulate around the controlling task. Image Context Runtime for Codex moves media bytes and durable job state into a local MCP runtime, returning only bounded text receipts, file references, hashes, and resumable Job IDs. It is designed for character sheets and storyboards, website and slide-deck assets, image-heavy news or book research, batch image generation, and visual QA. 
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