OpenAI Is Testing a Codex 'Persistent Mode' That Keeps Working Until You Put It to Sleep
Gizmodo, via r/OpenAI·medium signal
Code found in the Codex product codebase describes a Persistent mode in which the agent runs across sessions until explicitly stopped, proactively creating its own follow-up tasks and using prior interactions and knowledge of the user to pick what to do next. It appears in Codex's reasoning-effort menu as one of the most computationally intensive settings. Nothing has been rolled out or announced, so this is a code-leak signal rather than a product, but the shape of it, an agent that generates its own queue, is the direction worth planning around.