Adding reasoning support means you can run it much more reliably with Google’s Gemma 4 model locally (via Ollama) so you can now avoid any privacy issues and pay zero cost to run the helper (apart from some negligible extra electricity)
You can now enable history and command results in history without worrying about details about your local computer being shared with the cloud.
On Windows you will probably need a 16GB VRAM GPU to pull this off, or at least 24GB on a Mac, preferably 32.
Cost $37 to create the PR with Codex, so there was something in it for OpenAI even if it is likely I will probably run this fully locally going forward
