After Black Whale, OpenAI opens Harness to compete for “Agent runtime”

Picture generated by AI On August 20, Beijing time, OpenAI released "Codex as a platform: build on the open agent harness", which introduces how developers can build their own Agent applications based on the open source Codex Harness. Codex App, CLI and IDE extensions use the same underlying Harness. It is responsible for managing session state, context, tool calls, sandboxing, and human approvals. Developers can use codex exec, SDK or app-server to integrate these capabilities into the enterprise's existing operating consoles, customer service systems, security tools and internal applications. Five days ago, on August 14th, Beijing time,