Codex Orbit

A patch companion for OpenAI's Codex VS Code extension.

Codex Orbit is a thin wrapper VSIX that downloads the official openai.chatgpt Codex VSIX, applies a verified patch baseline, and installs the patched result. The wrapper itself does not redistribute the stock Codex extension; patching happens on the user's machine.

Current Baseline

• Target extension: openai.chatgpt
• Certified Codex version: 26.5609.30741
• Dynamic patcher: stable/patch_codex.py (content-anchored injection)
• Installed marker: codex-orbit-patch.json

Features

• Rename Codex tasks from the task context menu.
• Pin and unpin tasks.
• Star and unstar tasks.
• Replace Codex's inline recent-task feed with a collapsible right sidebar that mirrors only the current workspace's chats.
• Keep the recent-task menu/search/grouping patches from the verified Codex baseline.
• Detect whether the installed Codex extension is stock, patched, or behind the bundled patcher.

Build

python build.py

The build writes a numbered wrapper VSIX to builds/ and updates latest/codex-orbit.vsix.

For a local smoke build without creating a numbered release artifact:

python build.py --out .tmp\codex-orbit-test.vsix

Patch A Stock Codex VSIX

python stable\patch_codex.py openai.chatgpt --version 26.5609.30741 --target-platform win32-x64 --out .tmp\codex-test-patched.vsix --patcher-version dev

The patcher is version-agnostic: it injects by content anchor into any openai.chatgpt build and skips anchors that have drifted rather than failing. stable_version.txt records the certified build that enable() pins to.

Release Notes

This repository was rebooted from the previous Orbit wrapper into Codex Orbit. The old extension target and rollback archive have been removed from the build path; Codex Orbit now ships a Codex-specific stable patcher and asset baseline.