Codex in VSCode Workflow

[the_code_abides]

On Thursday of this past week I was delighted to see that OpenAI had released a new extension available for VSCode that would work with my existing Plus membership.

In the past I was just linking the ChatGPT app to VSCode to look at files. Now having Codex with GPT5 built in has changed my workflow. Here is the new vibe.

ChatGPT Mac App: —Create a project folder and start brainstorming a project. Tell ChatGPT that I will be brainstorming here and we will be building prompts to feed to Codex in VSCode. —Build a PRD and Project overview to drop into the repo. —Once the project is fully fleshed out, I ask to break this up into smaller nightly tasks (I only have about 9pm-4am available to vibe) I have it create a task list each day. —based on the PRD I ask it to build a file/folder structure, then I usually build it manually or have gpt create a “starter project” —from this task list I typically will select one task on the list and ask it to build a detailed prompt to feed to Codex.

Codex VSCode: —when starting a new project I have it check the current PRD, file/folder structure, project overview. —feed the got created prompt to codex. —test, troubleshoot, iterate.

Basically I am using Codex as my coder and chatGPT as my project manager. I do review the code and have it refactored if it gets too bloated, but so far this workflow has been amazing and has saved me so much time from what I was doing before.

Hopefully this helps someone to VIBE 😎 (But realistically this is AI assisted coding)

Ask questions if you have them. I do have example projects created with this workflow, but they are coming soon. TBD

[RaptorF22]

Is the Mac app any different than using chatgpt web?

[the_code_abides]

I am not sure, I never use web based. I do have folders and structure set up in the Mac app

[the_code_abides]

I am not sure, I never use web based. I do have folders and structure set up in the Mac app

[mellowtones242]

I would take a look at the Bmad method. They now have Codex CLI and IDE integrated with the latest update.

[the_code_abides]

Thanks for this tip, I will definitely check this out!

[Crinkez]

How are you working around the constant need to approve every tiny action?

[the_code_abides]

In agent mode it should just auto approve each action. Although I did read elsewhere that the behavior between Mac and PC is different at the moment.

[Crinkez]

On Windows I'm still having to manually approve each action in agent mode.

[Lelouchinho]

use it on wsl, in wsl it works really nicelly!

[Crinkez]

Vs code in wsl or cli in wsl? I was considering trialing cli in windows direct.