Automations

Codex supports unprompted automations — background processes that trigger Codex tasks based on events without human initiation. This is the frontier of AI-assisted development: Codex watching your issue tracker, CI pipeline, or monitoring alerts, and taking action autonomously.

Typical automation patterns include: issue triage (new GitHub issue → Codex labels, assigns, and drafts an implementation plan), CI failure response (test failure → Codex analyzes the failure and proposes a fix), alert monitoring (production error spike → Codex investigates logs and suggests a hotfix), and scheduled maintenance (nightly dependency updates, security scans, documentation freshness checks).

name: Auto-Triage Issues
on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  triage:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Triage with Codex
        run: |
          codex cloud exec "Analyze issue #${{ github.event.issue.number }}: \
            ${{ github.event.issue.title }}. \
            Label it, estimate complexity (S/M/L/XL), \
            and add a comment with an implementation plan."

Cloud-based triggers are the backbone of Codex automations. Since the automation runs in a Codex Cloud sandbox, it does not require a local machine to be running. This makes it viable for team-wide deployment — the automation infrastructure is hosted, not dependent on any individual developer's laptop.