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Set Up a Codex Cloud Environment

OpenAI's Codex can keep working after you close your laptop. How to build a saved cloud environment, a prompt to copy, and the catch

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Codex can run a task in the cloud, so you can close your laptop and pick the task back up later, even from your phone. The trick is a saved cloud environment that every new task starts from.

Here's how to set one up, based on OpenAI's own walkthrough.

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The rest of this guide (6 more sections, 1 copy-paste prompt) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.

Unlocks: Step 1: open cloud environments · Step 2: tell it about your project · Step 3: publish and share · Step 4: start a task and walk away · The catch · +1 more

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