Feature request: mobile companion to view and control Codex desktop sessions #14164

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

I would like a mobile companion experience for Codex App so I can view and control an active desktop session from my phone.

A concrete version of this would be:

• See the current desktop session status, transcript, pending tasks, and terminal/tool activity from a phone.
• Send follow-up instructions or approvals from the phone while the main Codex session keeps running on desktop.
• Resume, pause, or stop a desktop task remotely.
• Get mobile notifications when Codex needs approval, finishes a task, or gets blocked.

This would be similar to the remote/mobile control workflow people use with Claude Code, where the desktop or local agent does the work, but the phone acts as a lightweight control surface.

Why this would help:

• Many Codex tasks run for a while, so it is useful to monitor progress away from the desk.
• Approval steps currently require being back at the desktop at the right moment.
• For longer coding or debugging tasks, a phone view would make Codex much more practical in real workflows.

Even a first version with read-only session viewing + push notifications + simple reply/approve actions would already be very useful.

Additional information

A few implementation directions that could work:

• Pair a phone with the signed-in desktop Codex app.
• Expose an optional secure remote session channel for the active desktop task.
• Support read-only mode first, then remote input / approval actions.

The key thing is not full IDE editing on mobile. The valuable part is being able to supervise and steer a desktop Codex session from a phone.