Build an AIM-style Mac interface for Codex tasks
Codex + macOS + Computer use
I asked Codex to turn my agent tasks into a Mac app that felt like a 1990s AIM buddy list. I wanted the familiar little conversation windows to show my real tasks and messages.
Codex built a standalone app around my local task history, with searchable project groups, live transcripts, favorites, and saved drafts. It installed the app, checked the native windows, and tested a real chat reply as well as queuing and canceling a message.
The result was a local prototype with a pixel bot and a very different way to browse my tasks. Codex handled both the interface and the connection to the underlying work, which made it possible to try the idea as an actual Mac app.