OpenAI Codex: a beginner’s guide to the coding agent

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Get started with OpenAI Codex

Get started with OpenAI Codex as a coding agent: install it, set approvals, write an AGENTS.md file, and review every change before you merge.

OpenAI Codex is a coding agent that can read a codebase, plan a change, edit files, and run commands to check its own work. You describe a task in plain English, and Codex works through it while you watch or…

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Wesley Swann | AI, Automation & Cybersecurity

Wesley builds AI that does the busywork. He shares practical guides, teaches you how to build with AI, and helps turn your ideas into working automations.

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