Learn 95% of Codex in 30 minutes

You're in the right place if you use Chat GBT, Quad, Quad Code, Cloud Co-Work, or Codeex, but don't know which one you should use for business and how.

Because in this video, we're talking about using AI agents effectively.

Specifically, we're talking about Codeex, OpenAI's agent tool, which is like Cloud Code, except it's an easy to use interface for doing knowledge work and coding work. In this video, we're

going to be breaking down the seven core capabilities of Codeex, OpenAI's AI agent super app, each with realworld use cases so that by the end you know

exactly what it can do and where it fits in your workflow. Let's get started.

So, this right here is Codeex. This is a clean interface for AI agents that can fully control your computer. At first

glance, it kind of looks like chat GBT or Claude because you can create a chat, but they're not exactly the same. When

you chat on ChatGpt or Claude and upload files, those files are actually stored in the cloud. With Codeex, all of the files that you upload to Codeex or that

you create with Codeex are stored on your computer. Codeex is made to do any

your computer. Codeex is made to do any task that you might want to do on a computer. You can create a motion

computer. You can create a motion graphics video. You can create beautiful

graphics video. You can create beautiful landing pages and directly inside Codex, you can generate images that you can place in your site on Codeex. You can

also create more complex games and 3D simulations. You can also create mobile

simulations. You can also create mobile apps with a front end and backend with a professional design. You can also create

professional design. You can also create desktop apps in just a few prompts. You

can ask GPT 5.5 to create you an Excel sheet after doing a ton of research and it can create spreadsheets with multiple slides. It can also create any type of

slides. It can also create any type of word doc with many different charts and you can also create presentations directly inside codecs and export them

to Canva or any other tool you want. And

I haven't even mentioned yet that codeex can fully control my computer and it can also control the browser. But this is something we'll talk about a little bit later. As we go through the main seven

later. As we go through the main seven different capabilities of Codeex, you'll realize that it is truly a super app that does any coding task or any knowledge work task. Let's not waste any

time. Let's hop into capability number

time. Let's hop into capability number one. So the first capability that Codex

one. So the first capability that Codex has is full file access. You see when I use chat GPT all of the files that I give to chat GPT or that chat GPT

generates are stored in the cloud.

However, when we use codecs, all of the files that are created or the files that I give to it are stored on your computer and the agent inside codeex has full

access to your computer. Let me show you. In my downloads folder, I have a

you. In my downloads folder, I have a folder called receipts to process. And

we just have 60 different little photos of receipts that I've added to this folder. I can simply ask codeex. In the

folder. I can simply ask codeex. In the

downloads folder, you'll see my receipts that I need to process. I want you to analyze them in an Excel sheet and create charts that helps me visualize the types of transactions and any other

patterns that you notice. So we can choose our model which is GPT 5.5 high and we can run it. And the agent because it has full file access, it can access

any file on my computer. It'll find the relevant folder and complete the task.

And you can see here it found the target folder which is users Riley Brown downloads receipts to process with only 53 receipts. I'm going to OCR those. And

53 receipts. I'm going to OCR those. And

so we're going to extract the text from those receipts. Classify and categorize

those receipts. Classify and categorize each transaction. Now it's creating an

each transaction. Now it's creating an Excel workbook on my computer that we can open up in Codeex. All right. So

after 7 minutes it is now done and we can very easily just open this Excel project up directly inside codeex and you can see that it has created this

file. We can see there's a dashboard.

file. We can see there's a dashboard.

The total spend is 25,982.

We see receipts, category summary, payment summary and we can see all the different trends, the spend by payment method. We can see the monthly trends.

method. We can see the monthly trends.

This is an Excel sheet. And because it's on our computer, if you click this down arrow, you can see open in folder and we can see the exact file location of this

Excel spreadsheet. So now that we know

Excel spreadsheet. So now that we know that all of the files created on Codeex live on your computer, the question becomes, how do you stay organized? And

I will tell you the best way that you can stay organized inside Codeex is to work in a project. So you can create a chat in one of two ways. One way you can create a chat is if you just go to this

chats category and you just hit this new chat button. It allows you to create a

chat button. It allows you to create a chat that just shows up here in the sidebar. It's not actually inside a

sidebar. It's not actually inside a project. Or you can go ahead and you can

project. Or you can go ahead and you can create a project. And you can always hit start at existing folder. And I put all of my projects in my documents folder.

And then I will just create a new project. Seven capabilities because

project. Seven capabilities because that's what we're talking about. We can

create a new folder. And now we see that we're creating a new chat inside the seven capabilities folder. You'll see

here this project will show up here in the left side panel. And as soon as I add a chat, you can see the chat shows up here. The cool part about codeex is

up here. The cool part about codeex is you can multitask and you can create multiple chats at the same time. Here

I'm going to ask the agent to create a word doc.

And we're doing this within a chat inside the seven capabilities folder.

Any document that the agent creates when it's in a chat inside a project will actually store the document that it creates in this folder on your computer.

So if we click these three dots here and say open in Finder and we open the seven categories folder, we'll see that there's nothing in it. And that's

because the agent is not done creating the document. As soon as the agent's

the document. As soon as the agent's done, it's going to put the uh document that it creates in this project. And as

you can see here, we have this word doc that was created and it's called learn 90% of openi codecs in under 2 minutes.

You can see the title of the folder right here. If we go ahead and open up

right here. If we go ahead and open up finder at that location and we click on outputs and docs, you can see that that document is located right here. So this

is literally on my computer by default.

And so this video that I'm making now is called the seven capabilities of codeex.

And if we were to create a new chat in this folder, the chat would be aware that it is starting out in this project.

I can type at learn and see I can actually at@mention any file that's created within this seven capabilities

folder and I can say please turn this into a landing page a good learning

resource for my viewers and so I can take any document within this folder and I can just atmention it and say please turn this to a landing page and because it can control my computer and go look at all of the

documents that are organized very easily. It can find the right document

easily. It can find the right document and then create a landing page and the code for that landing page will exist on my computer. And here we go. It's done.

my computer. And here we go. It's done.

We can open this up and we can see that it created a landing page based on that document that is stored on our computer.

And let's go ahead and move on to the next capability. Next up, Codex has

next capability. Next up, Codex has something called persistent memory. So

within Codex, there's two types of memory. There's manual memory and

memory. There's manual memory and there's auto memory. Manual memory is when you ask the agent to remember something. When you tell it, hey, can

something. When you tell it, hey, can you remember this going forward in the future? Let me show you an example. So,

future? Let me show you an example. So,

I made a few changes to that landing page and got it to create it in this format with this little left sidebar. We

can scroll down and we can automatically snap to the section that we like. I

really like this format. And so from now on, can you please use this format whenever I ask for a landing page and I don't specify uh the styling?

You should use this styling and remember that if there's a lot of text content to use this table of contents.

So I can simply just ask the agent to remember this and it's automatically going to add it to the agents.md file

which is where you can see here search for agents.mmd.

for agents.mmd.

This is where it's going to store this information for later. And so you can see here the agent updated its manual memory which is the agents.md file. If

we click on this here are the things that I've asked it to add in the past.

Here's what it just added. It says for landing pages that are made for learning purposes. It says use this text first

purposes. It says use this text first format. Um, and then it kind of

format. Um, and then it kind of describes the style that I like. This

agents.md file is a living document that gets updated over time that acts as the manual memory. But there's also a

manual memory. But there's also a different type of memory that you should never really touch. And this is an automemory feature that Codeex kind of keeps updated automatically. And just

like the agents.mmd file, this is all stored in a file on your computer. If we

go to codeex and hit command n to create a new chat, please tell me about what you have in the and then codeex/memories

folder. I want to understand

folder. I want to understand what you know also open that file. And

you can see here it it uh gave me the path to this file. Well, we can go ahead and open this up. And this is a document you should not touch. You can just kind

of observe it to see what the agent observes about you. And so, every few weeks, I'll actually go through this and take a look. And this actually gives me a nice little summary of all of the

different tasks that I've asked my agent to do. And it can be useful when helping

to do. And it can be useful when helping other people build out similar workflows. I do not recommend making

workflows. I do not recommend making manual changes to these memories, right?

Just let the agent store the memories.

however it wants to because the agent has a skill that keeps these updated and it will get better over time. The agents

MD file on the other hand is your manual memory. This is meant for you to keep it

memory. This is meant for you to keep it updated. You can tell the agent to

updated. You can tell the agent to update it or you can manually update it if you want. The third huge capability that Codex has is plugins. And so

plugins are basically just codeex connections. They are installable

connections. They are installable reusable bundles that connect the OpenAI codeex AI agent to external tools, apps, and workflows. And this allows them to

and workflows. And this allows them to have other functionality. And they can connect to all of the tools that you use. And so if you go to the plugins

use. And so if you go to the plugins tab, with two clicks, I can add Slack and I can add Gmail. Once you've added Gmail, and you can see here, this plugin

actually comes with some skills. So,

there's a Gmail skill and an inbox triage skill that is part of this plugin. Right now, I think there's over

plugin. Right now, I think there's over 100 different plugins that allow you to connect codecs to the tools that you already use. So, let's go over an

already use. So, let's go over an example. So, I created a new project,

example. So, I created a new project, which is a folder on my computer called brand deals. And I'm going to say, I

brand deals. And I'm going to say, I want you to look at my email from the past 2 weeks, find all the brands offering to do paid promotion, do research on all of them, and put them in a table with relevant notes. And then I

can type the at sign. And here I can type in Gmail. All of the plugins show up in this menu. So we can very easily atmention the plugins. And this is a quick way to see which plugins that you

have access to. And I really like using this menu. And then we can go ahead and

this menu. And then we can go ahead and click send.

And now Codeex will search through all of my recent emails because I've given it access via the plugin. And it will get back to us. This is taking about like 5 minutes so far. And I have

another idea for uh a task I want an AI agent to do. So I can very easily just hit this new message button and I can type out exactly what I want. So I'm

making my next video on CLIs and MCPs in codecs. Please look at my notion and so

codecs. Please look at my notion and so I at mention notion which is a plugin and find my highquality long form scripts. Then I want you to please write

scripts. Then I want you to please write a script on this topic. Use excaladraw

diagrams. This is a skill which I'll get to next. We can run this prompt. And so

to next. We can run this prompt. And so

now we have two AI agents working, both working with plugins. So the brand deals task is done. If we go ahead and open up this document right here, we can see that it created a markdown file and it

went through all of my emails and wrote down the companies offering to sponsor my videos all the way down. It literally

went through all of them and took detailed notes and said what did they ask for? And also they added some

ask for? And also they added some research notes. And then I could ask it

research notes. And then I could ask it to respond to the emails because the same way that it can read my emails, it can also send emails from my account.

And if we go to the notion plugin that we tested, we can see here that it created this document and it went through my notion, found all the scripts that I had made previously and it said,

"Do you ever feel like AI coding tools are getting more powerful every week, but also somehow more confusing?" And

this is literally in my voice because it went through all of my scripts and it created this document using the notion plugin. And that brings us to the fourth

plugin. And that brings us to the fourth capability that Codex has, which are skills. And you can think of skills on

skills. And you can think of skills on Codeex as reusable workflow recipes or SOPs that your agent can use many times over and over again. In Codeex, if you

go up to the plugins tab, you see that there's actually a subtab within plugins, which are skills. And in the skills tab, these are similar to

plugins. They're more like instruction

plugins. They're more like instruction files that your agent will follow every time it wants to use one of these skills. So, all your skills can be found

skills. So, all your skills can be found in the plugins folder in the skills subfolder. But how do you actually

subfolder. But how do you actually create a skill? In order to create a skill, you can type a prompt just like this. I want you to create a skill

this. I want you to create a skill called brand deal analysis that does blank. And I could enter this prompt in

blank. And I could enter this prompt in and create this skill. And then once that's done, in order to use any skill, you just press this slash. And so I can

use my Excaladraw diagram skill just by typing uh slash. I can also use my YouTube researcher skill or my YouTube thumbnail skill, which we'll get to in

just a second. These are all skills that I can quickly access by typing slash.

These are different than plugins which I can access by typing at. So there's two main ways to create a skill in codeex.

One is the prompt to skill which is basically just I want you to create a skill called blank that does blank. This

will give you a reusable instructions file which is a skill but I don't think it will be as good as option one. The

best way to create a skill, in my opinion, is to use the manual workflow method where you basically ask your agent to do something, it'll do it, and then you basically go back and forth,

right? Tell it to create something and

right? Tell it to create something and say, "Hey, I want you to change it." And

you say, "Get the output, right?" If

you're not happy, you iterate more, and you kind of go back through this process, and you loop around until you're happy with the output. And then

you reverse engineer the skill. And you

will basically end up saying something like, "I'm happy with this output. Turn

it into a skill." And I'll actually show you if we go back to codeex. And you can see here I've asked the agent to put all those paid promos into a spreadsheet

right here. And I really like this

right here. And I really like this spreadsheet. I think it's high quality.

spreadsheet. I think it's high quality.

I think it's colorcoded right by the different priority. This is looking

different priority. This is looking really good. And remember, you can

really good. And remember, you can always full screen it to get a better look at whatever document it is that you're creating. And so, well, all we

you're creating. And so, well, all we need to do is we need to just type this in. I'm happy with this output. Turn

in. I'm happy with this output. Turn

this into a skill that I can use. And

the agent is smart enough to be like, okay, this is he wants to always be able to analyze his Gmail for brand sponsorships. I'll turn it into a skill.

sponsorships. I'll turn it into a skill.

And so now it's done. It says, I've created and validated the reusable skill called brand deal researcherskll.md.

And we can open up this skill by uh clicking on this skill.mmd file. And we

can actually read this over. And it

turned our entire workflow into these instructions. And the AI is very smart

instructions. And the AI is very smart enough at taking anything that you've done with your agent and turning it into a skill. So now if we hit command N to

a skill. So now if we hit command N to create a new chat, I want you uh to please do slash it's called brand deal

researcher.

All right. So now we have this reusable skill that we can use at any point. And

you can see here it's using all of the same plugins. It's using the Gmail

same plugins. It's using the Gmail plugin. So a skill can contain

plugin. So a skill can contain instructions to use a specific plugin because at the end of the day it's just instructions to do a simple task. While

our research brand deal task is loading, I actually went ahead and did a create excaladraw graphics for these seven capabilities. the video that we're

capabilities. the video that we're doing. Now, remember this document that

doing. Now, remember this document that we created earlier, which is this landing page that describes all of the different things that we're talking about in this video. I went ahead and I just said, "Please look at that document

and make a ton of graphics on a single Excaladraw doc. Use the Excaladraw

Excaladraw doc. Use the Excaladraw diagram skill and make the chart super useful." So then the AI thought and

useful." So then the AI thought and worked for 4 minutes and 23 seconds and then it created this and we can open this up and we can just automatically

basically import this project. And boom,

look at this. It created this entire outline. And I love this formatting,

outline. And I love this formatting, this formatting that it did with the background here. I actually really like

background here. I actually really like that. And so it created all of the

that. And so it created all of the diagrams. Wow, this is actually fantastic. It has the intro, all of the

fantastic. It has the intro, all of the summaries, memory, plugins versus skills, skill creation. Very cool. So

now I can go back to codeex and I can say, "Wow, I really like the formatting that you did here. Please update the skills so that you always put them in the containers that you did. And I want

you to always give me a link with all of the diagrams that you create when I ask you to create multiple diagrams just like this. I love it."

like this. I love it."

And so even once you've used a skill, maybe you've used it for a while and you like it and then you get surprised by something valuable like this diagram right here or these this formatting, you can always just say, "Hey, I want you to

always format it like this." And so every time you use the skill is an opportunity to make the skill even better. Just tell your agent to update

better. Just tell your agent to update the skill to always do something. The

next capability of codeex is builtin GBT image to access. So you can generate images with the best image model in the world directly inside codeex. So I

created a new project called content.

And here I'm saying generate a product photo for my uh sweater company. This is

our first sweater. I can paste an image of a sweater. And you can see here this is the first sweater knitted sweater that I'm making. Please create five

images with GPT/image slash2 of different models of different nationalities wearing this sweater. Three of the

images should have one person. One image

should have three people. The last image should have five people.

And so we can run this. And within the content folder, it's going to create images. those images will live inside

images. those images will live inside the content folder once it's done. And

look at this. You can see here that it's using the skill.md

for image genen. And so this image genen skill is built into codec. And so you can go to codecs, click on skills, and you can see which skills are built into the system. And you don't have to enable

the system. And you don't have to enable them, but these are recommended skills by codecs. And one of them is image gen.

by codecs. And one of them is image gen.

And by default, this uses the latest and best image model. And you can see here that it generated one of the images. We

still need to wait for the other four.

Okay, here it just generated the second image. It just generated the third

image. It just generated the third image. The next image should have three

image. The next image should have three people in one image. And here we go.

Here's number four. And here is number five. And now that you know that you can

five. And now that you know that you can generate images, that brings me to the next capability of codecs, which is browser use and computer use. And so in order to use computer use, it is a

plugin. So remember, you just type in at

plugin. So remember, you just type in at computer use. Now I can say please open

computer use. Now I can say please open the Canva app on my computer, make a new presentation and put each one of these images on each of the slides. So one

image per slide. There should be five total slides.

We can simply tell Codeex to control our computer and it will do it. And as you can see here, we see list Mac apps and now it's looking at Canva. You can see

here it's controlling my computer. I'm

not even touching it. It just created this presentation. It's clicking in

this presentation. It's clicking in Canva. Okay. Oh, it just ran a script, I

Canva. Okay. Oh, it just ran a script, I believe. And so, it just ran a script.

believe. And so, it just ran a script.

It's looking at Canva. And you can see here it created this presentation. And

it has all five images on the computer. And you can see here, this is the mouse. You can see the mouse outline of the computer use. It

will move around from time to time. It

created this presentation for me. So

this right here is a browser. And you

can see that if we literally exit out of this and hit plus sign, we can see browser. And when we open this

browser. And when we open this index.html file, it's literally opening this in a browser. So now I'm going to say turn this into an app. Then test the

interface and make sure the buttons and navigation work using at browser use.

And I can run this prompt here. And now

it's going to take this turn it into an app and then it's just going to test it by controlling the browser inside codeex. Okay, you can see here it's kind

codeex. Okay, you can see here it's kind of like a different color. Look, this is my mouse right here. This is the browser use. So the AI is actually controlling

use. So the AI is actually controlling the browser and it's going to start testing them. So we see that it's test

testing them. So we see that it's test start button and the AI is now taking control of the screen. The first uh visible check showed the app controls

but the start button smooth scroll is too subtle for live verification. You

can see here it's moving around. It's

scrolling through the app. It's clicking

on the different quizzes that it's created.

Now it's testing quiz completion. And

now it just marked us a correct answer.

So it's making sure that all parts of the application work.

Oh, now it tested the side panel. Now

we're at the bottom. This is very cool.

Anything you can open up in the browser, you can ask uh browser use. You can use the at browser use plugin to test it

directly inside codeex. And finally,

capability number seven inside codeex is automations. You can create automations

automations. You can create automations simply by talking to codeex. So remember

this excel sheet that we created in this chat here in the brand deals project called research paid promo brand deals.

We created this spreadsheet after it analyzed all of my incoming emails with the email plugin. Then we took this output and we turned it into a skill.

I'm happy with this output. Please turn

it into a skill. Now what I can do is I can repeatedly do this on a weekly or daily or hourly basis. I can simply say

please do this every single Friday at 9 a.m. please and update this sheet. What

a.m. please and update this sheet. What

this is going to do is it's going to create an automation. Notice here we only see two automations.

Here it says, I'll set this up as a recurring automation for Fridays at 9:00 a.m.

a.m.

And we can see it directly in the UI.

Created weekly brand deal sheet updated.

And if we click on this, we can see the automation details. We can see that at

automation details. We can see that at Friday at 9:00 a.m. We can see that it's active. We can see that the last run is

active. We can see that the last run is empty because it's never run before. And

we can see that we are using the brand deal researcher skill to scan Gmail for paid promotion, sponsorship, brand deal, influencer campaigns, etc. So created this and now if we go to the automations

tab, we now see it up here. We can see Friday at 9:00 a.m. We have another one at Fridays at 9:00 a.m. We can click on this and you can edit it directly. And

finally, we have a bonus capability inside Codeex, which is something called chronicle. So this is a brand new

chronicle. So this is a brand new feature within Codeex. If we go to settings and we click settings and we go to personalization and we scroll down, you will see an option to to use

chronicle research preview. When you

turn this on, what this will do is it'll say that it is running. And this one may seem a little bit invasive. What this

one does is it basically is always recording your screen so it has context with what you're working on. And so if I go to my presentation here and I just kind of scroll around in my browser, use

Chronicle, uh, tell me what I should add to my Codeex visual presentation.

And so it shows you here, I'll use Chronicle Skill for live screenwork content, then cross everything over.

Chronicle is available, so I'm checking the fresh screen state first. And look

at this. You can see that it's pulling up recent screenshots of my screen here.

And so it is pulling old images and it's getting context from what I've had open on my screen recently. And so it's able to keep track of all the things that I'm

working on. And the way that you invoke

working on. And the way that you invoke it is just say use Chronicle. And so it says based on Chronicle, I'd added these to your visual presentation. a codec

super app map, a full control loop diagram for prompt files, a chronicle demo slide, reusable skills slide, and why codecs over other tools slide. And

so it automatically, and I didn't give it any information. I didn't upload an image or give it an Excal document. It

just knew what was in this slide deck here. And it's able to understand it

here. And it's able to understand it because this chronicle feature watches my screen and takes screenshots constantly. And so those are the main

constantly. And so those are the main features and abilities within codeex.

And in summary, we covered that codeex has full file control, meaning it can create, edit, and delete any file. It

has persistent memory, and whether that is automatic memory or manual memory in your agents.mmd file. We also talked

your agents.mmd file. We also talked about plugins, which are built into the platform. It connects your agent to all

platform. It connects your agent to all of the tools that exists. You can create skills by taking any task that you create with the agent and then converting that into a skill. Your

codeex agent has access to image generation and it is the best image generation model in the world which is GBT- image-2.

We also have browser control and computer use and this allows your agent to control your computer like a human.

The human interface which is a keyboard, a mouse and a screen can now be used by agents and it's getting better exponentially. And we also have

exponentially. And we also have automations. You can take any useful

automations. You can take any useful task that your agent does and say, "Hey, do this every day. Hey, do this every hour. Hey, do this every week. Do this

hour. Hey, do this every week. Do this

every month." That type of thing. And

then as a bonus, we talked about Chronicle. Anyway, thank you guys so

Chronicle. Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you got a lot out of this video. I make videos like this every single week. So, make sure to subscribe and hit that like button. It

helps me out a lot. I'll see you here for the next video.