Feature Request — Cloud-based ChatGPT Codex with GitHub integration and Android support
Hey,
I’d really love to see ChatGPT Codex get a true cloud execution mode directly connected to GitHub repositories, including full support from the Android mobile app.
What makes Claude Code really impressive right now is that you can launch coding tasks remotely from your phone or browser, connect a GitHub repository, and let the agent work in the cloud without needing your computer running locally. It can analyze the repo, edit files, run tests, create commits, and even open pull requests directly on GitHub.
Having something similar with ChatGPT Codex would be incredibly powerful.
Being able to open the Android app, select a GitHub repo, ask Codex to implement or fix a feature, then let it run remotely in the cloud while streaming progress live would completely change mobile development workflows.
Even simple things like reviewing diffs, approving changes, continuing tasks from mobile, or creating PRs directly from the app would make Codex much more integrated into real-world developer workflows.
Right now ChatGPT already feels extremely capable for coding, but a cloud-based GitHub execution workflow would honestly push it to another level.
Thanks for all the work on Codex, really hope this becomes possible in the future.
If I have understood your post correctly, then some of this already exists, depending on which workflow is meant.
For Codex remote connections, the docs say the phone sends prompts, approvals and follow-up messages, while the connected host provides the environment Codex uses. So mobile can steer Codex work, but the execution still comes from the connected host.
There is also Codex web/cloud, where Codex can work in its own cloud environment, connect to GitHub repositories and create pull requests from its work.
So I think the distinction is:
mobile control of Codex running on a connected host already exists
Codex cloud with GitHub repo execution already exists
the separate feature request may be a more direct Android/mobile flow for starting and managing the full Codex cloud GitHub workflow without relying on a connected host
Here’s couple of the docs I’ve referred to, that you can check (if you already haven’t):
What I actually meant is that it would be great to have the same functionality as in the cloud version, where it can create a cloud-based instance and work directly with GitHub without requiring our computer to be turned on.
That’s what I would like to see implemented in Codex: the ability to work on our GitHub development projects directly from a cloud environment, without needing our computer to stay powered on when we’re traveling or away from home.
I think that would be a real value-added feature and a significant improvement to the overall experience.
