# Feature Request: Turn Codex Into a Full AI-Native IDE

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-turn-codex-into-a-full-ai-native-ide/1393725>\
**Category:** Use cases and examples\
**Tags:** codex\
**Created:** [August 31, 2026, 5:33am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-turn-codex-into-a-full-ai-native-ide/1393725 "2026-08-31T05:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cybersharp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Cybersharp](https://community.openai.com/u/Cybersharp)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 5:33am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-turn-codex-into-a-full-ai-native-ide/1393725/1 "2026-08-31T05:33:09Z")

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# Feature Request: Turn Codex Into a Full AI-Native IDE 🚀

**Codex is already an incredible coding agent. The next step should be giving it a complete development environment.**

I’d love to see OpenAI build a **full Codex IDE** , similar to the experience developers get with Cursor or Antigravity—but deeply integrated around Codex agents.

### The vision

Instead of switching between an IDE, Codex, terminal, browser, GitHub, and debugging tools, imagine:

**Codex IDE = Editor + Agent + Terminal + Browser + GitHub + Debugger + Preview**

All working together.

### What I’d love to see

- 🧠 **Project-wide understanding** — architecture, dependencies, conventions, docs, and tests

- 🤖 **Agentic coding** — give Codex a goal and let it plan, implement, test, debug, and iterate

- ✏ **Multi-file editing** with a powerful VS Code-class editor

- 💻 **Integrated terminal** with configurable permissions

- 🌐 **Live browser/app preview** so Codex can fix UI and runtime issues

- 🐛 **Integrated debugging** — logs, stack traces, breakpoints, console, network

- 🔀 **Deep Git/GitHub integration** — branches, commits, PRs, issues, reviews

- 🧪 **Automated testing** — run tests, diagnose failures, and fix them

- 👥 **Multi-agent workflows** for larger projects

- 📋 **Plan → Execute → Test → Review → Approve** workflow

- 🧩 **Persistent project instructions/context** so developers don’t have to repeatedly explain their codebase

### The experience I’m imagining

I should be able to open a repository and simply say:

> **“Implement issue #142, run the tests, fix any failures, review your changes, and prepare a PR.”**

Codex should handle the engineering workflow while I remain in control of the important decisions.

The goal isn’t just **AI-assisted coding**.

It’s an **AI-native software development environment**.

Cursor showed how powerful it is when AI is built directly into the IDE. I think OpenAI could take this significantly further with Codex’s agentic capabilities.

### What do you think?

**Would you use a dedicated Codex IDE if OpenAI built one?**

What would be your **#1 must-have feature**?

If enough developers want this, I hope OpenAI considers making a **full Codex IDE** a major product direction.

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**Author:** ![OpenAI\_Support](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/openai_support/32/561845_2.png) [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-turn-codex-into-a-full-ai-native-ide/1393725/2 "2026-09-08T03:13:39Z")

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Codex already includes a terminal, browser previews and code review alongside coding tasks: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001275. We’ll pass along the request for a fully integrated editor/debugger experience. We don’t have a timeline to share.

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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Pardesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Prashant\_Pardesi](https://community.openai.com/u/Prashant_Pardesi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-turn-codex-into-a-full-ai-native-ide/1393725/3 "2026-09-08T03:14:29Z")

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Closed on September 8, 2026, 3:14am UTC