OpenAI's developer experience lead Vaibhav Srivastav demonstrates daily use of the Codex macOS app's Appshots feature, where a double-Command-key press grabs the frontmost window's visible content plus any scrolled-out text and feeds it straight into an active thread for tasks like issue investigation or prompt checks.
appshots in codex is the most useful piece of software on my Mac
most of my prompts these days are: - cmd + cmd investigate this - cmd + cmd open a PR to fix this - cmd + cmd run the eval on these set of prompts and discussion - cmd + cmd set a heartbeat to keep following up with this
and many more cases
trust me, you’ve got to try it
Users can trigger the capture without leaving their workflow, attaching richer context to Codex than a manual screenshot would allow.
The capability is live now for Free through Pro plans on macOS, though enterprise rollout timing stays unspecified.
Many users praise Codex's Appshots feature for capturing full window text as a convenient life-saver with satisfying animations, while others report bugs, inconsistent performance, and enterprise restrictions.
How am I only now finding out about appshots?
I was dragging screenshots into codex live a caveman.
This is really cool.
Appshots lets Codex see your whole window including what's scrolled out of view.
The friction between you and your agent keeps dropping toward zero.
How am I only now finding out about appshots?
I was dragging screenshots into codex live a caveman.
@steipete You didn’t even read my codex post
How am I only now finding out about appshots?
I was dragging screenshots into codex live a caveman.
@jxnlco new account who dis
@steipete You didn’t even read my codex post
@gregisenberg That's basically what Windows Recall is, and Microsoft was crucified for it when it launced. Wild how fast perspectives change when people see the possibilities.
@steipete Need to try the latest update yet. But with the previous one it still wouldn’t work for me. I would hit both command buttons and it wouldn’t take a screenshot at all. It’s only worked a few time for me so not sure why it breaks for me
@steipete ngmi! 😂
@reach_vb I use codex cli and it is being too slow Any option to start multiple sub agents for my single command to increase speed?
On 200$ tier
@BradGroux i am falling behind
@steipete If only you had coworkers that know about this stuff! 😂
@vhbrzezowski better pack my stuff
@steipete What? Where is it?
@steipete I've taken 600 app shots in the past week! 😂
@steipete What
@realrjm dont rub it in
@Weichaus huh, usually it's me who finds all the bugs. Do you not see a screenshot or where does it fail? macOS at latest stable?
@steipete How am I finding about this now wtf
I was dragging them too
@fkadev press left and right command and see the magic
@sound4movement @reach_vb great now he'll accuse me of stealing tweet ideas
@steipete Dont you guts rest features internally before release?