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Public story · 2026-08-17 · high
The router patched OpenAI's desktop app and hit 200 GitHub stars in a day, but its terms-of-service risk stays unresolved.
Why now: The repo posted August 16 and crossed 200 stars before OpenAI said anything about it.
b-nnett shipped codex-subscription-router on GitHub August 16, and it passed 200 stars within a day. The tool patches a local copy of OpenAI's desktop ChatGPT app. It splits the app's single connection across several accounts, launching one official Codex process per subscription, each with its own isolated Codex home directory.
The Go multiplexer picks whichever account's weekly allowance is closest to running out, with a bounded boost for accounts holding banked resets in reserve. Once a thread starts, it stays pinned to the subscription that opened it. A follow-up keeps its conversation context and account-level caching instead of switching accounts mid-thread.
The repo ships build tooling only, not OpenAI's binaries, and the README carries an explicit unofficial warning. Not a hosted service. A local patch users assemble themselves, one OpenAI can shut down only by cutting off the accounts behind it.
I don't expect OpenAI's terms of service to tolerate account pooling like this for long, and I won't build anything load-bearing on top of it. What happens to pooled accounts once OpenAI's systems notice the pattern in request logs is the open question the project doesn't answer. The repo went up August 16, a day before this writing, with no word yet from OpenAI.
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Agent Plugins partners with OpenAI / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic
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ChatGPT built by OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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GitHub Copilot supports OpenAI / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
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OpenAI uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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ChatGPT built by OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Figma partners with OpenAI / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Figma partners with OpenAI); both cover August, Codex, GitHub; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
OpenAI partners with Google / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (OpenAI partners with Google); both cover August, GitHub, OpenAI; reported by the same outlet (github.com).