codex-mobile: remote-control Codex from Discord

[NathanZane]

Hi everyone,

I am addicted to building with Codex. The main friction for me was that I could only really use it while sitting at my desktop. I wanted a way to keep an eye on long-running work, approve requests, and send small follow-up instructions while away from my machine, so I built a small side project for that:

https://github.com/NathanZane/codex-mobile

codex-mobile is a local Discord bridge for Codex Desktop and Codex CLI. It runs on the same machine as Codex, mirrors selected Codex activity into Discord, and lets one configured controller user approve supported requests, as well as start, queue, or steer turns from Discord.

Example of how it looks from Discord:

Live mirroring of Codex messages

Approval request

Starting a new turn from Discord

A few notes:

• Windows-first public beta
• Discord-only for now
• local-first; there is no hosted backend
• Discord is a control/notification surface, not the source of truth
• it is intentionally conservative about approvals and write-back behavior

UX may be a bit rough in places, but it has already been useful for my own workflow, especially when I want Codex to keep working while I’m away from my desk.

If you try it and run into setup issues, rough edges, or security concerns, please let me know. I’d also be very interested in suggestions from other heavy Codex users about what would make this more useful or safer.