Codex App 26.616: Record & Replay Turns Demonstrated Workflows into Reusable Skills
CodexOpenAI introduced Record & Replay in Codex app 26.616, a macOS feature that lets users demonstrate a recurring workflow once while Codex observes and then converts those captured steps into an inspectable, editable reusable skill. The resulting skill can be triggered later with variable inputs, shared across teams, and refined after creation. The update also adds bulk actions to automation run history and improves Browser Use persistence so visible-tab routing and annotations survive draft-to-server session transitions. Record & Replay requires Computer Use and is initially unavailable in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland.
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Record & Replay: Teaching Codex a Workflow by Showing It Once
Codex app 26.616, released June 18, 2026, introduces Record & Replay, a macOS capability. Instead of writing a prompt describing every step of a recurring task, users perform the task while Codex watches, and the agent drafts a reusable skill from that demonstration.
How It Works
During recording, a user opens the Plugins menu, selects "Record a skill," gives Codex context, then carries out the task. Codex observes the sequence of clicks, window content, and steps. Once stopped, Codex enters a processing phase: it drafts a skill document describing when to invoke it, what inputs it requires, the procedural steps, and how to verify completion, stored as an editable file. During replay, users ask Codex to execute the skill on demand, substituting variable inputs.
Practical Use Cases
Designed for repetitive workflows easier to show than describe: filing an expense report, booking a recurring parking reservation, creating a configured issue in a tracker, publishing a video with metadata, or downloading a recurring report.
Team Sharing and Editability
Skills are inspectable and editable. A single recorded workflow from one employee can become a shared automation for a department. OpenAI recommends keeping demonstrations short and complete with realistic but non-sensitive inputs.
Availability
macOS-only, requires Computer Use. The initial rollout excludes the EEA, UK, and Switzerland.
Bulk Automation History Actions
Users can now apply bulk actions to automation run history, marking multiple runs as read or archiving batches at once.
Browser Use: Session Transition Persistence
Visible-tab routing and in-page annotations now persist when a draft browser session transitions to the server.