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28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)

A two-hour, filmed-in-one-day walkthrough of everything Codex can do with GPT-6 Astra, from one-prompt iOS apps to an agent that reads your Slack and tells you what to work on.

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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Codex stops being a coding tool and becomes a general operator for your whole business the moment you plug in every app you already use and let GPT-6 Astra read across all of them.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…
  • You pay for ChatGPT and have only ever used the chat window, and want to know what the Codex desktop app actually adds.
  • You run a small team or solo business on Gmail, Slack, Notion and iMessage and want one agent that can read and act across all of them.
  • You've never written code but want to ship a real web app, desktop app or iOS app from a single prompt and put it on the internet.
  • You're already deep in AI agents and want a checklist of Codex-specific features (Sites, Sections, record-and-replay, sub-agents, remote) you may have missed.
SKIP IF…
  • You want a deep tutorial on any one feature. Every item here gets 2 to 8 minutes and the host explicitly defers depth to future videos.
  • You're on Claude Code, Cursor or another agent tool and want a head-to-head comparison. This is a single-tool tour with only passing references to competitors.
  • You need a security or team-governance discussion. The host runs with full access on and says so once.
TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Codex is the app and GPT-6 Astra is the model, and the host argues that the model will always be strongest inside the app it was trained for. The two levers you control are which model tier you pick and which plugins you connect. The first half covers building: web apps, GPT Sites for hosted internal tools with built-in auth and database, desktop and iOS apps from one prompt, an in-app browser the agent can drive, documents, and annotation mode for pointing at exactly what to change. The second half covers operating: projects and sections for organizing chats, plugins for Gmail, Slack, Notion, Blender and Paper, scheduled tasks, skills built from recorded screen sessions or external APIs, phone remote control, sub-agents for parallel work, and computer use. The practical conclusion is to connect everything, then ask the agent what it can take off your plate.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 03:25

01 · Intro, the platform, and downloading Codex

The one-tool claim, the distinction between chatgpt.com, GPT Work and the Codex desktop app, and plan advice: the $20 plan works, the $100 Pro plan for a month if you want to really learn it.

03:25 – 06:10

02 · 1. Codex is the app, GPT-6 is the model

Three panes (chat list, active chat, work area). Three things make it good: built-in abilities, the model, and your plugins. Future models are trained for Codex, so the same model will be weaker in Cursor.

06:10 – 10:32

03 · 2. Build any app

Live edit to the agentnative.inc homepage from a screenshot, with the agent testing mobile and desktop views in its browser, then 'push it to prod'. A four-prompt 3D shooter, Modern Singularity 2, as proof of range.

10:32 – 18:12

04 · 3. Host sites with GPT Sites

An Arizona rental-vs-flip calculator built as a private site locked to agentnative.inc emails, live in minutes with auth, database and storage. Personal sites, team sites, and an auto-updating brand-deals dashboard fed by scheduled tasks. Max 15 sites.

18:12 – 24:09

05 · 4. Desktop apps and iOS apps

A Raycast-style image search and background-removal hotkey app built from one prompt while the host stepped away. Then a Swift Uber clone ('Ruber') built with the Build iOS Apps plugin on Astra high, done in 18:31 and running in a real simulator.

24:09 – 32:27

06 · 5. Built-in web browser

Command-T opens a full signed-in browser. The agent fetches a Notion doc, edits it, opens Instagram, X and LinkedIn on request, scrolls X until it finds a post, then drives browser-use to test all 29 fields of the calculator. Import cookies and passwords from Chrome.

32:27 – 35:00

07 · 6. Create any document

Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations plugins with templates. App shots (both command keys) sends a screenshot to Codex. A presentation and a four-agent comparison spreadsheet generated in parallel.

35:00 – 38:41

08 · 7. Annotation mode

Click anywhere on a slide or a site, type a note, batch seven annotations and send them at once. The agent has the location and the instruction for each.

38:41 – 44:29

09 · 8. Production-ready apps

The stack: GitHub for versions, Vercel for hosting, Convex for the database, Namecheap for the domain. Ask Codex what stack to use, then have it guide the sign-ins. Repo created and deployed to a vercel.app link from the chat.

44:29 – 48:54

10 · 9. Chats and projects

Recents for 90% of work. A Project creates a real folder in Documents/ChatGPT so every chat in it shares files. Starts a Rocket League game project and fires off a Blender request for five computer-mouse cars.

48:54 – 51:13

11 · 10. Multitasking and side chats

Command-N inside a project keeps spawning parallel jobs against the same folder. Slash-side opens a temporary side chat that reads project files for questions without starting new work.

51:13 – 54:27

12 · 11. Sections

Create a sidebar section by hand, then ask Codex on light reasoning to read a week of chats and move all 25 research roundups into it. Delete the section by asking.

54:27 – 1:03:17

13 · 12. Connect every app (plugins)

Blender controlled without an official plugin. A company brief pulled from Notion, Slack, Gmail and iMessages into a Google Doc. The viral month/quarter/year alignment prompt. Paper redesigns the landing page three ways on a shared board.

1:03:17 – 1:05:39

14 · 13. Ask Codex what to work on

'What are three things you can take off my plate?' The agent scans every connection and drafts a talk thesis, a Slack reply and a move-in-day plan in Gmail.

1:05:39 – 1:08:25

15 · 14. Blender and 3D assets

Five mouse-shaped cars now exist as real Blender models. A marked-up screenshot changes one to gold, removes a stray protrusion and turns the tiny white one chrome black, live in Blender.

1:08:25 – 1:09:24

16 · 15. Video games

Implement the Blender cars into the Rocket League game with a controls menu and deploy to Vercel in one prompt.

1:09:24 – 1:13:12

17 · 16. Interactive learning websites

Ash's exploded-view human body and Tesla sites as examples. Any 3D asset can become a pull-apart public site. Click Kick, the mouse soccer game, goes live at click-kick.vercel.app and the host loses badly.

1:13:12 – 1:16:19

18 · 17. Scheduled tasks

Tell any chat to run at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Local tasks need the machine on; cloud tasks live on GPT Work. Codex creates an automations section and moves the four scheduled chats into it.

1:16:19 – 1:18:56

19 · 18. Email and iMessage

Summarize Emily's emails, draft a reply, approve, send, get the link. Then send the same message over iMessage with a follow-up, each step gated by an approval prompt.

1:18:56 – 1:22:54

20 · 19. Skills

Skills are the units inside plugins (Vercel ships 54). The host's own: YouTube thumbnail, YouTube researcher, scrape creator. Point Codex at a Notion outline and say 'make this a skill called golden long form'.

1:22:54 – 1:26:45

21 · 20. Record and replay

At-record starts a screen capture. The host builds thumbnails in Paper by hand, swapping logos and faces across variations, stops recording, and Codex builds the skill from the video.

1:26:45 – 1:30:00

22 · 21. External APIs in skills

Scrape Creators, SERP API, FAL and a remove-background API all became skills the same way: billing account, API key, docs link, 'turn the capabilities of this API into a skill', three to five minutes.

1:30:00 – 1:35:51

23 · 22. Video understanding skill

Gemini ingests video natively, so a Google AI Studio key becomes a video-analyze skill. A 53-second Instagram post that stalled at 10K views gets a three-second-chunk critique and a rewritten transcript.

1:35:51 – 1:38:03

24 · 23. Inline charts

Mermaid flowcharts and sequence diagrams rendered directly in the chat, no artifact. Saved as a 'Riley visual format' skill plus a memory note to prefer visuals over bricks of text.

1:38:03 – 1:42:49

25 · 24. Control Codex from your phone

Scan a QR from the ChatGPT mobile app to pair. Every project, chat and plugin is usable remotely, charts render on the phone, and real-time voice spins up new chats by talking.

1:42:49 – 1:45:17

26 · 25. Generate and edit images

A thumbnail in the host's style with the OpenAI logo swapped for Codex, then three comment-style annotations (white shirt, more stars, 3D text) applied in one edit pass.

1:45:17 – 1:48:09

27 · 26. Sub-agents

Research eight YouTubers with scrape creators. Sequential would take forever; 'use sub-agents for each one' spawns three parallel workers, visible in the summary toggle. Cheaper models can run the sub-agents.

1:48:09 – 1:49:35

28 · 27. Computer use

At-computer lets Astra draw a portrait in Canva stroke by stroke and run in the background on a Mac. The host expects it 10x better and faster within six months.

1:49:35 – 1:54:47

29 · 28. Whatever you want, and recap

Anything that can happen on a computer can in theory be done through Codex. A full recap of all 28, the Tella MCP for pulling his own transcripts, the downloadable guide on agentnative.inc, and sign-off at 11:05 p.m.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • Codex is the app and GPT-6 is the model, and every future OpenAI model is trained with Codex in mind, so the same model will be weaker inside Cursor or any third-party tool.
  • You only control two things that determine how good Codex is: the model tier you select and the plugins you connect.
  • GPT Sites gives a first-time builder hosting, a database, file storage, authentication and a domain from one prompt, with a cap of 15 sites.
  • Restricting a GPT Site to sign-ins from your company email domain is a one-line way to ship an internal tool to a team.
  • A scheduled task can write to a GPT Site's database three times a day, which turns a static dashboard into one nobody on the team has to update.
  • A working desktop app with a global hotkey shipped from one prompt while the host was in the bathroom.
  • The iOS app build took 18 minutes 31 seconds on GPT-6 Astra at high reasoning and produced a real simulator running a Swift app.
  • Use medium reasoning by default and drop to light for easy tasks; Astra on high is overkill for most work and burns tokens.
  • The in-app browser is signed into everything you use, and the agent can drive it to test the app it just built, including the phone-width layout.
  • Annotation mode lets you click seven spots on a page, type a note on each, and send all seven edits as one batch.
  • The production stack is GitHub for version history, Vercel for hosting, Convex for the database and Namecheap for the domain, and Codex will walk you through signing into all of them.
  • Use Recents for 90% of tasks and only create a Project when you're building a real app that needs its own folder of files.
  • Codex can reorganize its own sidebar: ask it to find every chat with a scheduled task and move them into a section called automations.
  • Scheduled tasks run on your machine, so they silently skip if the computer is off; cloud tasks on GPT Work run regardless.
  • You don't write skills, you describe a document you like and ask the agent to turn it into a reusable skill.
  • Record and replay captures your screen while you do a workflow by hand, then builds a skill from the recording.
  • Any external API becomes a skill by pasting the docs link and an API key and saying 'turn the capabilities of this API into a skill'.
  • Gemini natively ingests video as a single upload, so wrapping its API as a Codex skill gives the agent real video comprehension instead of frame-sampling.
  • Sub-agents only run when you ask for them because parallel work burns more tokens per minute; ask for them on any long scrape or research job.
  • Your phone can drive the desktop app over remote, including real-time voice that spins up new chats using every plugin on your machine.
Takeaway

Connect everything, then delegate the deciding.

WHAT TO LEARN

Codex earns its keep in two layers: it builds and hosts anything from a prompt, and once every app you use is plugged in, it can read across your whole business and tell you what to do next.

021. Codex is the app, GPT-6 is the model
  • Codex is the app and GPT-6 Astra is the model; the model is trained for the app, so expect the same model to be weaker inside third-party tools.
  • Only two levers change how good the agent is: the reasoning tier you pick per task and the plugins you connect.
032. Build any app
  • Editing a live site starts with a screenshot of the section and a plain sentence about what's wrong; the agent tests desktop and mobile views itself before you say 'push to prod'.
  • Nothing goes live until you explicitly ask, so local preview followed by a one-line deploy is the default loop.
043. Host sites with GPT Sites
  • GPT Sites is the right first host: one prompt yields hosting, database, storage and authentication, and restricting sign-in to a company email domain makes it a private team tool.
  • A site's built-in database can be written to by scheduled tasks, so dashboards update themselves instead of waiting on a human.
  • There is a 15-site cap; treat GPT Sites as the place for personal pages and internal tools, not every project.
054. Desktop apps and iOS apps
  • A desktop app is one prompt: describe the behavior, name a hotkey, name an app it should resemble, and say 'when you're done, run it on my computer'.
  • For iOS, ask for Swift and use the Build iOS Apps plugin so the result opens in a real simulator; budget 15 to 20 minutes on high reasoning.
  • Match reasoning effort to stakes: light for cleanup, medium for most work, high only when the output will drive real decisions.
065. Built-in web browser
  • Command-T opens a browser that is signed into everything, and any link the agent returns can be opened there and edited alongside the chat.
  • Ask the agent to 'use browser use and test this UI' after every build; it will exercise every field and the phone-width layout without being told what to check.
  • Import Chrome cookies and passwords once so the agent inherits every login you already have.
076. Create any document
  • Documents, spreadsheets and presentations are built-in plugins with templates, and a screenshot from any app can be turned into one with app shots.
087. Annotation mode
  • Annotation mode replaces long change requests: click the exact element, type the note, batch several, send once.
098. Production-ready apps
  • Ask the agent what stack to use and to walk you through signing into each tool; the answer here was GitHub, Vercel, Convex and a Namecheap domain.
  • You do not need to write code to run a production app, but you do need to understand GitHub, branches and pull requests well enough to direct the agent.
109. Chats and projects
  • Use Recents for almost everything and reserve Projects for real apps, because a Project is a real folder that every chat inside it can see.
1110. Multitasking and side chats
  • A side chat lets you ask questions about the project's files without launching new work, and closes with one click.
1211. Sections
  • Sections are for the agent to maintain: describe the grouping rule and let it move the chats.
1312. Connect every app (plugins)
  • Apps without an official plugin, like Blender, can still be driven; ask 'how do I connect this app' and the agent builds the bridge.
  • The highest-value prompts read across every connected source at once; a priority brief or a quarterly self-review only works when Gmail, Slack, Notion and messages are all attached.
1413. Ask Codex what to work on
  • Once connected, invert the workflow: ask the agent what it can take off your plate and have it draft each item for approval.
1514. Blender and 3D assets
  • 3D assets built in Blender can be edited from a marked-up screenshot and dropped into a game or a pull-apart learning site with one more prompt.
1817. Scheduled tasks
  • Any chat can become a schedule by naming days and a time; local tasks skip when the machine is off, so put must-run jobs on the cloud platform.
  • Have the agent gather every scheduled chat into one section so the outputs you must check daily are in one place.
1918. Email and iMessage
  • Email and iMessage are approve-then-send: summarize, draft, approve, send, get the link; the approval prompt is the safety layer.
2019. Skills
  • Skills are created by describing a document you like, by recording yourself doing the task, or by handing over an API's docs and key.
2120. Record and replay
  • Record and replay is for workflows that are easier to show than to describe.
2221. External APIs in skills
  • Any paid API becomes an agent capability with a billing account, a key and the docs link; scraping, search, image generation and background removal all followed the same recipe.
2322. Video understanding skill
  • Gemini ingests whole videos natively, so wrapping its API as a skill gives the agent real video comprehension that frame-sampling cannot match.
2423. Inline charts
  • Inline mermaid diagrams are available without a skill; save the preference in memory so the agent defaults to visuals.
2524. Control Codex from your phone
  • Pairing the phone over remote makes the desktop app usable anywhere, including voice, as long as the computer stays on.
2625. Generate and edit images
  • Image edits use the same annotation pattern as pages: comment on the spots, then 'make edits'.
2726. Sub-agents
  • Sub-agents are opt-in because parallel work burns more tokens per minute; ask for them on any long scrape or research job and consider a cheaper model for the workers.
2827. Computer use
  • Computer use can run in the background on a Mac while you work in another app, and the host expects it to improve by an order of magnitude within six months.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Codex
The agent workspace inside the ChatGPT desktop app where a model can build apps, drive a browser, control other applications and run scheduled tasks on your computer.
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's flagship model at the time of the video, selectable inside Codex at light, medium or high reasoning effort.
GPT Sites
A built-in Codex feature that hosts a generated web app on a chatgpt.site link with database, file storage, authentication and an optional custom domain included.
GPT Work
OpenAI's cloud agent platform, separate from Codex, used here to run scheduled tasks that don't depend on a local machine being on.
Plugin
A connection between Codex and an external app such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, Vercel or Blender, bundling one or more skills that let the agent read from and act on that app.
Skill
A reusable, named workflow the agent can invoke with a slash or at-mention, created by describing a format, recording a screen session, or wrapping an external API.
Record and replay
A Codex feature that records your screen while you perform a task by hand, then analyzes the video to build a skill that repeats it.
Side chat
A lightweight temporary chat opened alongside a running task that can read the project's files and answer questions without launching new work.
Section
A user-defined grouping in the Codex sidebar that chats can be moved into, either by hand or by asking the agent to sort them.
Sub-agent
A child agent spawned by the main agent to handle part of a task in parallel, optionally on a cheaper model, with results returned to the parent.
Computer use
The agent's ability to see the screen and operate any application with mouse and keyboard, invoked with an at-mention and able to run in the background on a Mac.
Convex
A hosted backend database with a Codex plugin, used in the host's production stack alongside GitHub and Vercel.
Paper
A Figma-like design canvas with an agent connection, where Codex can draw landing page mockups and thumbnails on a shared board.
Mermaid diagram
A text-defined diagram format (flowcharts, sequence diagrams) that Codex can render inline in the chat without creating a separate file.
App shots
Pressing both command keys at once to send a screenshot plus context about the active app into Codex as a prompt attachment.
Resources

Things they pointed at.

1:30:11linkCodex Complete Guide (written version, agentnative.inc) ↗
02:10toolChatGPT desktop app (Mac/Windows)
09:05productModern Singularity 2 (four-prompt 3D shooter)
10:35toolGPT Sites
19:20toolExcalidraw
20:29toolRaycast
23:20toolBuild iOS Apps plugin
33:14toolApp shots (double command key)
40:13toolGitHub
42:40toolVercel
44:00toolConvex
43:20toolNamecheap
55:00toolBlender
59:18toolWhisperflow (voice dictation and meeting notes)
1:01:20toolPaper (agent-native design canvas)
1:09:30channelAsh's interactive 3D learning sites (human body, Tesla)
1:11:09productClick Kick (the mouse soccer game) ↗
1:27:25toolScrape Creators API ↗
1:29:30toolSERP API
1:29:32toolFAL
1:30:57toolGoogle AI Studio / Gemini video understanding ↗
1:48:30toolCanva
1:52:23toolTella (screen recorder, connected over MCP)
Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:06
“If I could only use one AI tool and I had to throw out all of the rest, I would choose Codex.”
The whole video's thesis in one sentence, spoken to camera→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
04:51
“This model and all future models are trained with Codex in mind. Using this model inside Codex will always be the most powerful way to use it.”
Contrarian claim against Cursor and every third-party tool→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
08:57
“I actually challenge you to try and create an app that Codex can't create.”
A dare, no setup needed→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
20:49
“In one prompt, I just fired this prompt off. I went to the bathroom. I came back and there was a desktop app running on my computer.”
Concrete, funny, believable→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
30:25
“Some suspect that within the next three months it's going to be faster than humans can use a browser.”
Prediction with a deadline→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
41:59
“I've never written a line of code, but I do know how to use GitHub. I know what branches are. I know what PRs are.”
The no-code builder's real skill floor→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
1:00:28
“Connect all of your context within your business and just ask Astra for insights. When you connect all of your plugins, it will do magical things.”
The operating thesis of the second half→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
1:04:06
“Everyone obsesses over how you can go out and do things with AI. No one talks about the fact that you can just ask it what it can take off your plate.”
Reframes the whole use case→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
1:22:24
“You don't really need to learn how to create skills. You just need to tell your Codex agent, who's really good at creating skills, to create the skill for you.”
Removes a barrier in one line→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
1:49:53
“Over the next year you're going to realize that these products are more like Jarvis. Not if you squint like Jarvis. Actually like Jarvis.”
Closing energy, cultural reference everyone gets→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
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This is the complete guide to using Codex with GPT -6. Since GPT -6 came out, I've realized something. If I could only use one AI tool and I had to throw out all of the rest, I would choose Codex.
Not only can Codex do any coding task, it can also do any general work task as well. With Codex and GPT -6, you can build any type of app in a single prompt. You can create full 3D models in Blender, Unreal Engine, and more.
You have access to an in -app browser where I do 90 % of... my work you can create any type of presentation or interactive document you can create video games that are multiplayer in a single prompt you can let codex control your computer for hours to accomplish any task on your computer and so many more and we're going to cover everything that codex can do for you and your business today my name is riley brown i've been using codex for the past six months straight to run my startup and to build my channels to over 2 million followers and today we're going to talk about the 20 things you need to understand about Codex in order to have full control over GPT -6 and all of the other models within Codex.
And by the end of this video, you will know exactly how to use Codex to grow your business and build any app and become 10 times more productive. Okay, so before we dive into the 28 things that you absolutely need to understand about Codex, let's hop into the platform. And by platform, I actually don't mean chatgbt .com in your web browser.
mean is the ChatGPT desktop app that you actually download on your computer. Today we're actually not talking about ChatGPT, the tool that over a billion people have used, or their new cloud agent platform which is called GPT Work. Today we're talking about Codex.
If you come up here to this left ChatGPT icon and select this and come down to Codex, this is the interface that we are talking about today. Specifically, we are talking about how to use Codex with their brand new model, GPT -6 Astra.
So the first thing that you need to do in order to use this app is you need to download the desktop app. So if you go to Google and just type in download chat GPT desktop app, and then click on the first link. here you go you can download it for mac or windows depending on which type of computer you have and once you have chatgpt downloaded on your computer you have a decision to make you need to choose which plan you want for the sake of this video you can use the 20 per month plan if you have the 20 per month plan you're fine you will get access to some of gpt6 astra however if you want to do longer projects and you want to have a lot of use of this model of gpt6 i highly recommend at least for one month getting the 100 month plan, this pro plan right here, you will learn so much.
If you use this tool on this plan for a month, if you actually put in the work and then once you've chosen your plan and you have the app downloaded, your app will probably look like this, right? You will see chat GPT. You'll be able to choose chat GPT work or chat for the sake of this video.
If you're following along the entire rest of the video will be done in this codex section. And we are going to be using Codex. And you should see that you're signed in right here.
And you should see that you have 100 % left in terms of usage. We'll get to all of the stuff later. But first...
We need to get into the 28 things you need to understand about Codex. So the first thing that you need to know about Codex is that Codex is the app and GPT -6 is the model. OpenAI has released two different things.
They've released the most powerful model in the world, GPT -6 Astra, and they've also released, in my opinion, the most powerful application in the world, which is Codex. Codex is the app. GPT -6 is the model.
Visually, Codex is broken into three sections. You have your list of chats, you have your active chat, and then whatever it is that you're working on. These are kind of the three sections.
And you can minimize what it is the agent is working on right here, and you can also minimize the list of chats. So you could look just at the active chat. When I type something in here, in...
Codex, whatever model I have selected will respond. And so there are three main things that make Codex so good. And the first one are the built in abilities.
And as we'll get to a lot later, as we go through these 28 things that you need to know, we're going to talk about all of the different abilities and plugins that are directly built into the platform right when you download them. But also a main thing that makes it better is the model. And so right now.
The latest model is GPT -6 Astra. It's incredibly good. But OpenAI, every month or so, they're going to release a new model that will make it even better.
And so this model and all future models are trained with Codex in mind. That is their main priority, right? As GPT -6 gets better or GPT -7, GPT -8, they're going to train it so they're good at all of the things that are built into Codex.
And so I predict that using this model inside Codex will always be the most powerful. way to use it. Because if we were to go to a tool like Cursor, which is a different super app platform, you can use GPT -6 Astra.
But this model was not trained to be really good inside Cursor. It's going to be trained and it's going to be much better and stronger and have more abilities inside Codex. And then the third thing that makes Codex really good are your added plugins, right?
You can control these two things right here. You control what model is used and you can control what applications and external data you plug into Codex. We're going to cover this in the future, but these are the two things that control how good Codex is.
You can actively make it better by choosing which model and the plugins that you use. Codex is the app that we're going to be using for the rest of the video that lives inside the ChatGPT desktop app. And GPT -6 is their latest model, state of the art, best in the world.
And that we're going to focus this video on how to use GPT -6 inside Codex to get the most out of the app and model. So the second thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can use it to build apps. And I mean any app you can think of.
So here inside Codex, this is where I do all of my coding projects. And we'll start from the beginning in just a second. I just want to show you a few examples of apps that I've created.
The first one is my agent native website. If you go to agentnative .inc, and remember, this is a full browser. So if we were to open up the browser inside Codex, I could type directly in here.
I could say agentnative .inc, and this will take me to the website that is actually on the internet. Now, this right here is a local link, meaning it is running locally on my computer, which we'll get to a little bit later, actually in just a few minutes. But here is where I can make changes to the app.
For instance, I could come here. I could just take a screenshot right here of this section right here on the main page. We drag it into Codex.
Hey, I'm not the biggest fan of the section on the main homepage. Can we please create a different version of this that matches the style of the rest of the page? So I can just type this in and Codex will make the change.
And since it's running locally, I can then immediately test the changes on my computer. And as you can see here, it's making some changes. But look.
Look at this little mouse right here. Right now, Codex is actually using browser use. So it's testing to see what it looks like on the phone.
And it's changing the view here. It's making sure that it looks good. And you can actually take a peek.
You can see that it is inspecting. Okay, now it moved it back to computer view. It just restored the desktop preview.
So it's making these changes right here on this local version of our website. And so I replaced. the ruled list with a spacious borderless grid, clear descriptions and subtle arrows, stacks cleanly on mobile, checks past, nothing pushed to production.
And what does that mean? That means if we go to our website right here and we scroll down, even if we refresh the page, it looks like this. However, I could say, okay, please push it to prod.
And this... will automatically update the code on GitHub. And where the app is being hosted, it will be updated with the new code.
And we will see the changes in just a second. Okay, so after a minute, it said that it is live on agent native. So we're on the actual website agent native, because this is a browser right here, I can just go ahead and refresh this.
And now you see the brand new formatting down here. And I do think it looks a little bit better. But not just my website, right?
You can create any app you can think of. I actually challenge you to try and create an app that Codex. can't create.
So I showed this in my last video, but we can go ahead and open up Modern Singularity 2, which I created in just four prompts. So I can open this up in the browser. However, this is a video game, so I'm not actually going to use the in -app browser.
I have found that it is much faster if we open this up in an external browser, which is Chrome. And so this is what Codex created. I can choose a map right here.
Let's go ahead and we are going to choose the small rust map. I can simply choose my weapon, a sniper, grenade launcher, and then I can start playing.
And I kind of suck, but you get the point. And so when you build an app. on Codex and that app is then used in a browser that is known as a web app.
And you can host so many different types of apps. on a browser, right? You can play games on a browser.
It can be a productivity app or you can create a static website. There's basically no limitation to what you can create inside the browser. So we're going to be talking a lot more about how to create production ready apps or apps that you can get on the Internet and make sure they're secure, full back end, front end and database.
We're going to talk about that a little bit later. But if this is your first time using Codex, I think the first time that you build an app. I think you should do it slightly differently.
And this brings me to the next section because the third thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can host sites with a built -in feature directly inside Codex called GPT sites. If it's your first time using Codex, I think that you should host your site directly in the Codex sites feature. that is built into the platform.
Here are the three sites that I've created. And if you go to a new chat, you can just say, please create a at sites. This will automatically add database storage, meaning it can have images, videos, other types of assets stored on the actual site that's being deployed on the internet with GBT sites.
It can have authentication. You can sign in with your ChatGBT account and it can also have its own domain and it will store and it will host it on the internet. So you can send it to friends and they can also visit the site.
Okay, so this is the prompt that we're going to use to create our first site on the ChatGBT sites feature. I'm saying please create a sites and you can create a site by just typing at site. This will guarantee that it creates a sites, but you actually don't need to type the at sites.
You can just say, hey, I want a GBT sites. I want to create a property calculator for houses here in Arizona. We want to decide whether we want to buy as rental properties or if we want to immediately flip the home.
This site should be private and require a sign in with an agent native dot ink email address. So everyone on my team has an agent native dot ink email address. Those are the only people who should get access to the site.
Please make sure everything works right. The input forms are minimal for information, but I want to visualize all the metrics that should guide our decisions. It should show me all the metrics and show if it's a good decision, show the ROI, et cetera, et cetera.
So this is the prompt that we are going to use and we can run it on GPT -6 Astra. And you can expect that when you use Codex to build a site, it will take anywhere from five to 10 minutes. If you do an insanely hard prompt or a really complex site, it can work for 30 minutes to an hour.
Okay. After a few minutes, it gave us this link. It said that it's done.
It said live and private. It requires an agentnative .inc account in your agent native workspace. And so here it gave us a link to our sites.
Remember, sites tab is right here. It has the same icon. You can see it show up right here.
But if we go back, we can very easily just click open. And so when I click open, it actually opens this up in the browser. And you can see here.
that it has a continued ChatGBT. Remember, we required for someone to have an agentnative .inc email to keep this app secure. And my whole team actually does have an agentnative .inc account.
So I could send this to anyone on my team and they could sign in. But when I create a site, I like to open it up in the ChatGBT browser. And this opens it up right here.
And here it'll pop up just like this. And I'd already signed into this, but if... I hadn't signed in.
This is what it would look like. I would hit continue with ChatGBT. I would sign in with my agentnative .inc email, and then it would take me to the site that it created.
And so let's see if this app works. I can type in an address. Let's say it is the purchase price is $330 ,000.
Let's say that our budget is $100 ,000. The value after renovation, let's say this is going to be $500 ,000 and a monthly rent is going to be $3 ,100. You can see here that we are below the targets on both.
We are going to lose money on the flip. So in order for the flip to make sense, we would actually need, let's try and raise this up. Let's say we would get 550.
Okay, so this actually does meet the targets. And it even added a room for error calculator. So we could say like the downside of this, we would only make 177 a month.
The upside, we can make close to $550 per month. And that's pretty cool. So it created this site.
And it's already on the internet. And like I said, if we were to go to like Chrome, for example, we paste this in right here. We can sign in with our same ChatGBT account.
You could send this link. This is on the internet by default. We asked it to create an app and host it on sites.
It has a built -in database, built -in authentication, built -in storage. It just works. It's on the internet.
And when I sign in with my email, I can get access to this application. That's how easy vibe coding is now, especially if you're building a tool that is just for internal usage. we can very easily create an app and send it to people on our team.
And so these GPT sites are really good for two main use cases right now. And which is creating personal sites and creating team sites. So anytime you're creating a personal web page, you just use at sites directly inside Codex.
If you want to create an artifact, you can create an artifact of any kind, right? You can get an HTML. You can create an artifact that is like an interactive 3D document, which we'll get to a little bit later when we get into Blender.
You can create team sites. So team dashboards. And then honestly, my favorite.
type of site that I've created are ones that are automated and are used with the other plugins inside Codex. For example, this right here is a chat GPT dot site that I've created, right? That is the domain.
Whenever you create a chat GPT site, it has a link at chat GPT sites. And the reason I'm not worried about. putting this link out there is that this is fully password protected.
You won't be able to get into this. And so what this app does is this is a live dashboard. This updates by itself because Codex can connect to Notion.
As you can see here, it can also connect to Gmail. My Codex will connect to these things and don't worry, we'll get to plugins in a little bit. It automatically checks any updates in Notion, Gmail.
Slack, and even iMessages. I think it's Messages. It'll check all of these different platforms.
And if there's an update that I need to know about, it will not only let me know, and it will also add it to this dashboard. I don't want to show the whole dashboard because there's some sensitive information in here. However, it will automatically update it.
It automatically updates at very specific times because we'll get to later. You can create automations. And here's the scheduled automation that I have, which is refresh brand deals every day at 9 a .m., 2 p .m.
and 7 p .m. It will use those different integrations or plugins. Remember, we'll get there later.
And it will update that GBT sites. And because GBT sites has a built in database, your agents can actually write to that database. And so.
Every single time it runs, it will take a look at all of the data in this board, and it will make updates to anything that needs to be updated. So now I know exactly what my next action is. That's what I want to see.
I want to see where we are in all of the projects going on, and I want to see the next action. I don't have to update this. No one on my team needs to update this.
AI will update it automatically. And we'll talk about how to do this a little bit later. The final thing that I'll flag for GPT sites is that there is a max of 15 sites, or at least two weeks ago, I hit this limit.
I don't know if they're going to raise this limit. Just know that if you create a ton of sites, you may hit a limit. And so that brings me to the fourth thing that you need to know about Codex so that you can master it is that you can build any type of app.
not just web apps. And so this includes desktop apps and iOS apps. And I actually created a desktop app yesterday.
This is the desktop app that I created. I can press command shift space and it opens up this little desktop app. And so I can type in desktop app icon and it will automatically do a Google image search and find one that I like.
And so let's say that I like this one. I can see this and I can very easily just copy it and we can paste it straight. to our Excalibur diagram.
Now, anytime that I copy it, I will automatically see it in my saved icon. So if I ever come back to this website and I type in desktop app, it'll show up here so I don't have to research it. I'll just use an icon that I've already used before.
With this app, I can type in four different things and separate them by a semicolon and I can press enter and it will actually search this on four different ones. But I can also do 10 different things that are associated with open AI. I can press command enter and it will use AI to infer the different things that I want to search.
So here it's search for GPT -4 interface. Here it's search for artificial intelligence concept, neural network diagram. I built in AI and so I can very easily copy these to my clipboard.
And then I can also remove the background. So if I click remove BG, it will automatically immediately remove the background and I can paste it in right here. and so this allows me to quickly have access to google images and i can very quickly add diagrams to Excalibur, which I use for these presentations.
And this all stemmed from a little problem that I had while at a coffee shop here in New York. I was like, dang, I wish I, I don't want to have to go to Google images on Chrome, scroll through all of them, copy them to my clipboard, take them to Canva to remove the background. I wanted an app that could make this a lot faster.
So I had this idea. I typed out this prompt. I want to create a desktop app that I can use via shortcut, right?
Command shift space. allows me to toggle it on and off. And I want this to be like Raycast, right?
Raycast is another app that I use that pops up just like it. And since I knew what Raycast was, so does AI. It's like, hey, buddy, make it look like Raycast.
And it was like, yep, it made it look exactly like Raycast. Like it looked exactly like it, except I was the one who added this outer border. Not sure how I feel about that, but I can just design it however it is that I want.
And I want it. And then I just told it the exact app that I want. And in one prompt.
In one prompt, I just fired this prompt off. I went to the bathroom. I came back and there was a desktop app running on my computer.
Perfectly working. And the process to create a desktop app is really simple. Just say, I want you to create a desktop app that does blank.
When you're done, please run it on my computer. And whenever you want something to run on your computer, make sure that you have full access on. Or you're going to have to sit there and hit approve, which is fine.
If you want to be safe, that's fine. I have full access on. And so that I know that Codex can just build apps.
Put them on my computer. And this is really useful when I just want to create desktop apps for my own personal use. But it isn't just desktop apps that you can create.
You can also create iOS apps. And for this, you can use a built -in plugin called Build iOS Apps. I'll show you how this works.
Let's say I have a new idea for an iOS app. I'm going to press Command N. And this creates a new chat.
And I can type in my app idea. Let's say I have an idea. Please make an app that looks like Uber.
Exactly like Uber. A mock -up app. Find what it looks like online and make it look exactly like it, except call it Ruber.
Please make the design great. And this is for Riley Uber. I don't know.
This is just an example. If you want your app to show up here on the side view, you can use this plugin called Build. iOS apps, please use this and we will test our app.
This should be a Swift app. That is the main native coding language by Apple. Just know that if you just make a Swift app first, they look better.
Please make it. And for this, I actually want it to maybe think a little bit more. So I'm going to turn up its reasoning effort from medium to high for most tasks.
GPT -6 Astra is already overkill. So if it's something that's really easy and like you don't want intelligence, you can move it down to save some tokens. But for this one, I want it to do well.
I'm going to change it to GPT -6 Astra on high. And now we are going to run it. And we're going to wait five to seven minutes for it to create.
And it should open up here in the side. OK, so after 18 minutes and 31 seconds, it is done. And notice here, if we go open up our side panel.
Look at this. We have a real iOS simulator running on our computer. This is not actually Uber.
This is a iOS app that GPT -6 Astra, with high thinking effort, just created it. And we can see services, activity, account. And this is a real simulator running using the built -in build iOS apps skill.
I can click home. This actually goes to a simulator on the home. We can open up Ruber.
It even created this icon for Ruber. And here is our app. We can see our account.
This is how you can create iOS apps directly in Codex. And so that right there is number four. You can build any desktop app and iOS app directly inside Codex, and I'll make videos in the future where we dive deeper, and I'll make one video where it takes you through the entire process of getting your app on the App Store.
All right, so the fifth thing that you need to understand about Codex is that you can use its really powerful built -in web browser. When you are in any chat on Codex, you can open up the browser simply by clicking this toggle right side panel and you'll get an option.
You can either create a side chat, you can open up the terminal, or you can press browser or you can press command T. So if I had this closed, I can press command T. This will automatically open up the browser.
Now, this is a full browser and it's signed into all of my things. As you can see here, I am signed in. to agent native which is my twitter account and i can use it like a browser i could tweet hi and post it obviously i'm going to delete that post but the point is this is a full browser in order to full screen the browser you just hit this full screen mode You can close the side panel.
Now you're in a full browser, right? You can press Command T, which opens up a new tab. We can go to ESPN, Command T.
We can go to Facebook or we can go to, let's say, LinkedIn. And you can go to many sites at once. This is a full web browser that's completely baked in to Codex.
OK, so why is this so useful? Well. The reason is that since Codex is plugged into all of the tools that we use, again, we'll get to plugins in just a second.
I could say something like this, please. I want to work on the Codex. 28 things you need to know.
Please list out the things and give me the Notion link. So I could ask a question like this. I can just open Codex and be like, I want to work on this thing.
And what it's going to do is it's going to find the exact document that it needs to find. You can see that it is reading the Notion control skill. It is going to use the Notion plugin.
It's fetching the correct page. Here's the 28 things you need to know about Codex. It is listing them all out right here.
Now, any link that it gives you to Notion or to Gmail or any app that you use, you can just right click it and hit open in browser. And since I'm signed in to this on my browser, I now have AI that I can chat with and then I can edit this directly. This is my Notion.
Right. This is how I created this document right here. This is a document that we're working on right now.
And what's cool about this is I can now full screen it, close the sidebar, and now I can use Notion within the Codex browser and I can just use Notion and I can add things to it by talking to Codex. Hey, please add an outro at the bottom. In red, based on the rest of this doc, make it really good and please make it similar to Matt Wolf.
Use the scrape creator's skill. This will scrape his YouTube video transcripts and it will model its response off this. We'll get to this later as well.
Please put it in red at the bottom. And so of the Notion doc. Red text.
And so I can fire off this prompt and we can click on this. We can see that it is working. I can close it and I can close this out.
And so we can just go to the bottom of this page and it should pop up here. Oh, it added it right here. Outro.
So those 18 things you need to know about Codex. And hopefully you see why at the beginning of this video, I said that this is the one tool AI actually make this shorter, actually three sentences. And it will work on this really quick.
and boom look it shortened the outro and now we have an outro on our document that we created for this video and then you could just specify that you want something done in the codex browser i can say in codex browser please open instagram twitter and linkedin i'm about to post something and the ai will just do it really quickly and it just opened it up it opened up instagram it's going to open up another tab in just a second there you go twitter and linkedin are now open And you notice that it has this little browser tab.
So it's whenever you see that little icon over the screen, that's how you know that Codex is like looking at the browser inside the app. Codex is really good at controlling the browser. And I could say something like, please, can you scroll for a bit on X and find until you find a post about Muse?
And look. Here we go. You can see the mouse over it.
It's scrolling a little bit. Locate feed scroll area. It's scrolled.
And there you go. Here it found this post by Michael. First impressions free and fast.
Like really fast. Five to ten times faster than Grokbot slash Instinct. There you go.
Muse post is now up. Right? We just had Codex scroll in its in -app browser until it found a post about Muse.
That's pretty cool. The way that this is most commonly used, this browser control is probably to look at apps that you've created. So this is that sites feature.
I'm going to say, hey, can you please use browser use and test this UI and see if everything works?
And in order to use the browser use, you can just go at mention browser, use this. You don't have to. You can just say use the browser use.
But if you want to actually. Type in the integration. You go at mention browser, and it will do that.
And here you go. You can see that it is now typing things in the UI. It's clicking around.
It's testing things. There you go. You can see it moving around.
It's pretty cool. And here we can see, what is it saying? It's checking the main calculator, scenario switches, expandable sections, and resets are responding correctly.
I'm checking the input validation, and you can see it moving around the screen. It's hard to keep up with it because it's getting, GPT -6 Astra is getting faster and faster at controlling a browser. Some suspect that within the next, like, three months, it's going to be faster than humans can use a browser.
We're not even going to be able to pay attention or follow along as it uses the browser. That's how fast browser use is using. I'm not controlling anything.
Look at this. It's just typing in things, testing, testing. Look at this.
It's checking everything. And we can check on its work by seeing what it's saying, the main calculator.
It's finding the edge cases where calculation UIs tend to fail. Here it's typing everything in again. Wow, it's relentless.
It'll never stop testing. If you ask it to do it 100 times, it will. Now it's about to check with the phone width layout.
And look, it just changed the format to match a phone view. And you can see it's testing it on the phone. And there you go.
All 29 numeric fields, including upper limit. Have been validated right I tested codec browser no blocking UI issues found everything is perfect and basically every time you build an app It'll just automatically test everything for you in fact if you ask it to build a video game It'll play the video game and test things for you.
That's how powerful the browser use is and If we kind of go summarize here for number five which it has a powerful in -app browser It can open browser tabs automatically. You can open up the integrations that you have directly inside the browser.
It has full control over it using the browser use. It can test your apps running locally. It can test your apps if they're on GPT sites.
And a couple of cool things is that you can import cookies and passwords. So if you have Chrome, like if you use Chrome a lot, you can import them by coming here and you can click import cookies and passwords. So if you're signed into a bunch of things on Chrome, you can import them into the GBT browser.
And the reason this is important is because this is becoming a full browser. And so this is more like an agent native browser, right? A browser that you can use with your agent.
And so this. is one of the most useful features ever. This is how I control my email, Notion, Slack, etc.
Okay, so the sixth thing that you need to understand about Codex so that you can truly master it is you can create any type of document. Three of the built -in plugins in Codex is this Documents plugin, this Spreadsheets plugin, and this Presentations plugin. I can very easily select one of these templates.
And so I can click on this and I can use the market trends report template. And all of these come with templates. I can remove presentation and we can see spreadsheet templates.
And here's an analytics dashboard template. These are built in plugins that come with Codex. So I'm about to show you a bonus feature here.
So here we are inside notion I'm about to use something called app shots which are pressing two command keys at the same time watch this so I can press command and command at the same time and it will send a screenshot and Information about whatever app you're using to codex and I can say hey, can you please turn this into and I can just go at Presentation and I'm gonna run it And now I can press N.
And I'm going to say, hey, can you look up Grokbot by SpaceX, GPT Work by OpenAI, Muse, which was released today by Meta, and Anthropix Cowork, and please do some research and do a spreadsheet. And so I can say do a at spreadsheet, comparing these, and the features. make it look good and So I can create these different types of documents.
So I'm gonna wait a few minutes for these to finish Alright, so here we are it created this presentation and I can move from one slide To the next slide and it even added these like notes and add sources I can also see that it created this spreadsheet and so I can see pricing and access sources visual overview And we can see that it compared Grokbot, GBTwork, Muse, and ClaudeCowork.
And if we click Sources, Pricing and Access, Feature Comparison, we can see a feature comparison of all of them. And so we can just create sheets built directly into the platform. One really cool thing is I can actually make refined edits to this.
Not only can I create documents built directly into Codex, this brings me to the next one, which is the seventh thing that you need to know about Codex, which is using annotation mode to show it exactly where to make changes. So if you go to Codex, here we are in the presentation. If I come up to the top here and click this button right here, here we are now annotating.
And I can select anywhere. I can just select this. I can select anywhere on the presentation.
And I can click on here and say, hey, this slide is a little bit boring. Make it a better cover slide. And so I can add this in as an annotation.
And you notice here, it actually adds the annotation right here. If I click on this, I can see the comment that I made. And it has the location of where I made the comment.
I can click anywhere on any of the slides and say, hey. at the bottom here, make the background different, make the whole background of this slide more interesting. And I can add that as an annotation and I can say go.
And so now we can edit both of these annotations. And Codex now has context over exactly where I want it to make changes and then whatever I typed into the annotation. And then after a minute or so, it'll be done making those changes.
And while this is loading, we can actually go over to our browser here. This is our chat GPT site that we were creating earlier. Look at this.
I can click on annotation. I can come down. I can click directly on this and we can full screen this and zoom in so we can get a closer look.
Right. I can select this component right here and be like, hey, this is too dark. I can select that.
And you can see here that we have one annotation, but we can add more. Make this top bar less tall. Change background color.
I can select this. I don't like this logo. I can select this.
Get rid of this. Get rid of this. I can select this background.
Make this background look like graph paper but dotted. Make this just an icon. Look at that.
We have seven annotations we just made. I can click send on all of them. So now if we open this back up, it says that I just made seven annotation changes.
So now it's sending in all of those prompts at once. It's going to make all seven of those changes. And look at this.
It made all of those changes. You can see the graph paper in the back. It's much brighter.
I can also add them while it's loading. It's still loading some of them. I don't like these components really like like I don't like how there's so many lines on this.
Can you minimize the amount of lines here? So this should have no border and make the and have less subtitles here. Like just have the number and make the the green text more green and the red text more vibrant red.
You can send that in. I'm going to go ahead and refresh this. I'm going to go back to the presentation.
Let's check on this. Look at that. It just added this background.
to this one this is looking pretty good so now this is the cover site and remember we all we did was added those annotations to make precise edits and you can do this on documents and you can also do this on sites and so that one is pretty simple and it just really completes the powerful in -app browser that codex has you can just add annotations no matter what you're working on and AI will be aware of whatever it is that you're annotating.
All right, so the eighth thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can build and deploy production -ready apps. So I showed you this. App right here is my app running on agent native .inc.
This is what I use for my company and people can submit requests. All of this gets saved to a database. This is being deployed on Vercel.
This is my app. Codex works on this app, makes changes to it. It can make changes locally so I can see the changes and then I can deploy it to prod.
And all that means is just like update the latest version of the app so that my users can see the latest version. And when I. first created my website directly in Codex, I asked it, what stack should I use for this idea?
So I just went to Codex. You could literally ask Codex something like this. I'm building an app.
agent native. That will be my primary site for my company. Obviously I would give it a ton more details about my company, but basically I'm saying, what is the best stack to do this?
Meaning what is the list of tools that I should use to create this app? After you tell me, um, I will ask you to help me set it up and sign into all of these tools. And so I can just run this prompt and Codex will actually tell me the exact tools.
And so that's exactly what I did for my site. And this is the stack that I ended up with. And I believe that this is the easiest way to get started building apps that you actually want to deploy as a team.
And the one that you will absolutely need is GitHub. GitHub is like the Google Drive for developers that keeps track of the latest version of the app. And it basically, once you're signed in to GitHub, it runs in the background.
And let's just say that we're working on this sites and I actually want to upload this to GitHub. I want to save the code, and then I eventually want to deploy it on my own domain. I don't want it to be GPT sites.
I'm going to put it on Vercel or Cloudflare or something else. All I can do is just very easily, hey, we're connected to GitHub, so I want you to create a new repo, which includes all of these files. Please create a new GitHub repo on GitHub.
Make it private and call it Arizona Real Estate Tracker. And so I can run this prompt and it will automatically put it in GitHub. It'll create a new repo on GitHub.
And if you have not set these up, I'm telling you the best way to get set up with GitHub, Vercel and Convex, which is the database. The best way to do it is to literally use this prompt right here. I want to get Codex set up to create production ready apps.
Help me set up so that you can fully control GitHub, Vercel and Convex so that we can build production apps. Let's get signed in and set up for all of them. And it will literally guide you through until it's done.
And all you have to do is just follow the instructions by the AI. But as you can see here, it created a new repo. And so if I go ahead and open this up in an external browser, here it shows Arizona Real Estate Tracker.
And it is private, so I'm the only one who can see it. And this is everything here. Everything here is just a bunch of code files that it saved to GitHub.
I can make changes to this and then update it on GitHub. And so this is a little bit more technical. And this is like for me, like I've never written a line of code, but I do know how to use GitHub.
I know what branches are. I know what PRs are. I know how to basically manage my site that way.
And I know how to tell AI to check for security threats and things like that. You can basically figure out how to use. How to create full production ready apps just by talking to AI and asking for the best practices.
Hey, how do I keep this website up to date? How do I keep this working? Just talk to AI and it will figure it out.
So now let's say I want to actually store this on a real domain on the Internet. Right. I don't want.
And so I'm going to say, please, we're going to keep this GitHub repo connected to Vercel. And I want to deploy this website on Vercel and then eventually give it its own domain. Can you please do that?
And so I can run this. And then when you're done, give me the Vercel link. And so the same way GPT sites gave us a GPT sites link, Vercel will give us a Vercel link.
And I've just always used Vercel because AI is really good at using Vercel. But you could also use Cloudflare. And there you go.
Here we are. We now have a link to our Vercel .app. And so this is actually on the internet.
And this is how I've hosted my website, agentnative .inc. I asked Codex to create this. And whenever Codex builds an app, all it's doing is creating files, right?
And whenever it runs the app, it runs your app on your computer until you ask it to host the app, in which case it hosts it on the internet. And that's where I'm using Vercel. And then on Vercel, if you buy a domain on Namecheap, right, you can buy a domain on Namecheap.
It's very easy to connect the Vercel domain to your Namecheap domain. And so then I went to Namecheap and I bought agentnative .inc because agentnative .com wasn't available. And so I'll do a full vibe coding guide in the future, which digs deeper into all of this.
But this is my main stack that I use. So GitHub. This is forget Vercel hosting.
Right. And this is, you know, putting it on Internet database. I use Convex.
Convex has a plug in directly inside Codex. I can just go to Codex and I can type in like make new app use at Convex for the database. Once you've set this up, you can now create databases, edit databases, and this will create a full database for your website.
And so speaking of files that get created when you build an app, like in this step with GitHub, I want to move to number nine, which is the ninth thing that you need to know in order to understand Codex is that you can create chats or projects. So now we're going to be moving to this navigation side panel right here. And so you see here that we have recents.
These are all the things that we've worked on today. For 90 % of tasks, I use recents. So if I press this button right here, this creates a new chat.
And I can say, hello, tell me about my latest emails using at Gmail. And I can fire off this prompt. And what's going to happen is AI is going to automatically rename this chat session in just a second.
And it calls it summarize latest emails. So this is in recents. 90 % of the time, I will create it in recents.
And if I'm already working in a chat that's in recents, and I press Command N to create a new chat, and I create another one, it's like, please summarize the activity in at Slack. I can fire this prompt off, and it will auto name it. And notice here, it shows up in recents.
And now it's going through my Slack. And this is where I communicate with my entire team. Almost all of our communication happens in Slack.
And so this is what I do whenever I create a new chat session. I just create a normal chat in Recents. However, whenever I work on a larger project.
Right here we have an Agent Native site. This is where I keep all my chats about Agent Native. Whenever I build an actual app, I do create a project.
So let's imagine for a second that we were creating a project and this app that we were going to create is a 3D game. What I would do is I would want a place on my local computer where all of these files are located. We're basically creating a directory where all of the code files for this project are going to be located.
And so I can just hit next and then we can choose a name. And we're going to call this, let's call this Rocket League Game Riley version. Actually, Rocket League Game Riley.
And I'm going to go ahead and create this project. Now, this created a folder on our computer. So if I right -click on this and hit Reveal in Finder, we can see that on our computer, in the ChatGBT subfolder, Documents, ChatGBT, we now have a project called Rocket League.
game Riley. Now, if I press this button right here, this will create a new chat in this project. What this allows you to do is this allows you to very easily create a new chat that is working on one specific app.
So for instance, I could say, please, I want you to design a cool new blender file that looks as high fidelity. as actual rocket league except all the cars are going to be little computer mouses different types of computer mouses so i want you to create those but they look like computer mouses and this is going to eventually be in our video game please i want you to just design in blender I want you to design the five types of computer mouses that can be selected in our Rocket League game that will be of computer mouses.
I don't know where I got this idea. This is the first thing that came to my mind. I just saw this mouse on my computer.
I'm like, screw it. Let's do this. And I can say we're going to say use Blender.
I can fire this off now. I want to fire this off now because later in this video, we're going to get to Blender and that's where I'll dig a little bit deeper. I'm not going to talk too much about that now.
The point I'm trying to make is I can press command N. And since I was already in this project or folder, this will keep all of the chats about this project organized. And so while that one's running right now, this one's going to take a while, right?
I can very easily create a new chat. And this brings me to the 10th thing that you need to know about Codex, which is you can multitask and run as many jobs as you want at the same time. So I could say right here, and I can run this up to high.
Hey, I need the best Rocket League game ever. I want it super high quality, high fidelity. Go online, figure out how to make Rocket League the best with accurate physics.
We're going to add in assets later from Blender. I'm creating those in this directory right now. I want you to create the game and the physics properly.
So build the Rocket League game. I want to play it and test it. So I can fire this prompt out here.
And notice here, all of... Every time I press Command N, all of it is done in the same project. Any files that get created in this project will be added to this folder, meaning any chat that I'm creating will be able to see all of the assets in here very easily.
And you can just keep firing off chats here. Hey, please tell me about Rocket League and just describe the physics of the game here real quick.
And one other thing that you can do, if you don't want to start a new chat, that's a little too much. Let's say I wanted to do it here. I can create something called a side chat.
So if I press slash side. I get a side chat. Now, this one is like a smaller chat.
This is meant for just having conversations, but it can read all the files in this folder. Hey, please tell me about the best ways to do what we're working on right now. What are some things that we could do better on when creating this game?
I can fire off this side chat right here. And this is meant to be a temporary chat. This is not meant to actually go off and do anything or build anything.
It's just more so if you want to just create a quick chat on the side, ask AI something. And here it has context over whatever we're creating. And now we are talking to GPT -6 Astra High in this side chat.
And once, if I don't need it anymore, I can very easily just exit out of this by pressing this X button. But this might be useful if you wanna have side conversations while your agent is working. So I'm gonna let these work on the background, right?
We're actually gonna come back to this in a few steps, probably in about 20 to 30 minutes. What I want to talk about now is the 10th thing that you need to know about Codex, which are sections. If you look here on the left side of the page, if I were to right click on this and I go down to section and I create new section and I say, let's call this roundup, create section.
I now added this recent chat. to this roundup section this is how you create sections within the codex app now well the coolest thing of all is i could press if i just click new chat right here i could go like this hey for the past week i've done a lot of roundups i've had you go and had codex look up different things that we need to different things that we need to like go find information.
Anytime I asked for AI to search Gmail, Slack, Notion, or anything to gather information, all of those from the past week, please add to the roundup section within Codex. So I'm going to leave. So right now you notice here that this Rocket League game, Riley, this is where it would create a new chat.
I don't want to do this. I just want it to be a normal chat. So I can just hit this X and notice here that we're creating it without a project.
When you create a chat inside Recents, It's not in a project. So now I actually don't need to make this high.
In fact, we can go all the way to light. This is not a hard task. I can press enter.
Now it's going to go through all these recent chats. And I have so many old chats inside Codex. But you can see here it is listing all the chats and then it's going to move them into the roundup.
And this may take a little bit because it's reading all of the different chats from the past week, which is probably like 70 to 100 chats that I've had over the last week with Codex. And it's going to add them to this roundup folder right here. Oh, there you go.
Look at it. It's adding all of these. So you can see that it used the tool move thread to sidebar section.
And now all of the roundups that I've created in the last week have been added to this sidebar, which is very cool. Here it says added those 25 research and information gathering tasks from September 1st to 8th to roundup. And so those are sections.
And if we don't want to have it anymore, you can just say delete the section. Actually, we don't need the roundup section anymore. Can you please delete it?
And it will do it. There you go. It's gone.
All tasks are still available. They're just no longer in the roundup section because it doesn't exist. And so those are the last three.
You have projects, right? You can create these special projects. That for like production apps, that's the only time I really use projects anymore.
You can then multitask. And if you create a project, you can press Command N and you can create as many tasks or sessions as you want within that project. And it will keep context of the files created in that project.
And then you can create sections. And then you can have Codex create, add things to sections. You can delete sections.
all from the Codex chat. And now I want to move to the 12th thing that you need to know about Codex, which is the fact that you can connect it to every app that you already use. We're not yet going to talk about Blender, but the point that I'm trying to make in this section is that every app that you use on your computer is likely controllable via Codex.
I asked it to use Blender to create little mouse in Blender. Check this out. We can see the mouses.
It took a screenshot here and we can go into Blender. We can open up. Let's go ahead.
I think I minimized it. Here are the assets in Blender. Check these out.
Now I can come back and say, hey, I love these colors. I do want these to vary in shape and sizes. So figure out how to create some variation in the shape.
uh mostly the shape of these mouse and then we're going to add them to a rocket league game so please do that so Blender is just an app. It's a free app that we're running on our computer and Codex can control it.
Again, we're going to go into detail in Blender later and the different things that you can do within Blender. But the point is, every app that you use, you can create plugins. Now, this wasn't an official plugin.
I just asked Codex, hey, can we connect to Blender? And Codex can just kind of figure it out. There are specific apps that have built -in plugins and there are so many.
Like you could scroll forever, all of these categories. Just go on forever. Every company in the world wants to get their app listed on ChatGPT.
Every single app you can find can be found on here. And you can go through the popular plugins and you can very easily add them. Here, I can actually go back to plugins and I can see all of the apps that I myself have installed.
So here are all the plugins that I have used. and use inside Codex. If we go back to the app, the way that you use plugins are I could type in Notion.
I could type in Slack. I could any single one that I've set up. I can just use by typing it in right here.
So I could type in Gmail calendar. I have a calendar plugin. All of these plugins work.
And I could just say. And again, I don't want to work in the Rocket League project. Can you please give me a brief here in the chat of all the important updates inside my company and lead with the ones that you think I need to act on first in the order of priority?
And so for these types of tasks, this prompt right here, the response that it's going to get, it's going to look at all of my important documents and where I communicate with everyone. Oh, also look at my iMessages. So I can go at messages.
I am not going to use like because this is high stakes. This will dictate my priorities. This will dictate my next actions based on this response.
And so I want to make sure that we are using like a really good thinking effort here. I want it to put a lot of effort in so I can run this prompt. And I can send a follow -up prompt.
Please, can you put it in a Google Doc? Please. and send me the link.
So I can send that off right there. And again, it's going to send me a link and I'll be able to open it up in the in -app browser. All right, so it is done and it created this Google Doc.
And so now I can just right click on this, open it up in the Codex browser here. And here we go. I can zoom out of this.
Let me zoom out in Codex so we can see everything. I'm going to zoom out here. I'm going to full screen this.
And here we go. We have Google Docs open directly in our browser. And because we are using these extensions right here, because we're using the plugin for Google Doc, it can create a Google Doc.
But in order to do this, it also needed Notion, Slack, and Gmail. And so what's really useful is you could just ask questions about all of the things that you're plugged into. And it will give you a response in any format that you want.
And you can see here it created this full document. And I tweeted this the other day and it went super viral. And here's a prompt that I used.
And I said it was the biggest wow moment while using GPT -6 Astra. I said that I use Codex and I basically gave the prompt below along with email, Slack, business text, Notion, every single meeting note. And by the way, I do all my meeting notes in Whisperflow.
So Whisperflow automatically records all my meeting notes and Codex does have access to that. And so the prompt that I used is I'm about to plan my next month, quarter, and year. Make one document that aligns me on all of these timeframes.
Look for my flaws, strengths, and highlight those. Look at all of my activities, which activities you think I'm wasting time on, which activities to do more of. Of the people I work with who seem the most dependable, where am I the least dependable?
If I could upskill in one area over the next year, what would it be and why? When you give these models that are able to view everything about you, if you give them access to all of these tools, it can make sense of it so much better. I tried the same exact prompt with Grokbot using the Grok models, and the response was...
Basically incoherent. It was too much context. It couldn't figure out what was important.
The response to this was so good. I've been dying to share it. I just can't because the entire thing is sensitive information.
But I'm telling you, connect all of your context within your business and just ask Astra for insights. Ask it to help you. When you connect all of your plugins, it will do magical things.
And one thing I want to show you is beyond Blender. And beyond these built -in platforms like Notion, which can fully control your Notion as we already established, there's also other types of plugins. And you can set this up.
And this is paper. And paper is a lot like Figma. And so I can create a new board.
And I'm just going to say agent native redesign. And I can say. Hey, you have access to paper, right?
I want you to take the agent native landing page and I want you to redesign it on paper. I want you to make three options for a new landing page and new style for the agent native website. But just just design the main landing page three times on the open paper board.
And so I can run this prompt and it is connected to paper and it's automatically going to create designs on this paper. And so this is kind of like the agent native version of Figma where agents can create designs directly on the board. Okay, look at this.
So you can see on paper, right? You can see an agent is present because it has this little agent circle. You can also see where the agent is working because it has this little animation.
And you can see here. it is creating oh now it's creating three versions look at this so it is creating three versions of this website right here directly inside paper and that's how easy it is to just plug things in you have this ai working on a new website for you and now it's adding things and i love watching it add things in real time oh there you go and it has access to all the assets that are in my site There you go.
It should automatically fix this text. You can't read it. Not a huge fan of the font that it's using, but that is what it can do.
And one thing while it's working, actually, what you can do is you can select any component on paper, right? I could select this right here and I can hit this little copy link button. And I'm just going to say I'm going to paste this link.
So this points directly at this and I can say make sure this is. uh lighter text can't see it i just wanted to show you the fact that you can add like quick feedback to this because i'm pretty sure it would automatically edit this text because again it will take a screenshot of its designs and then it'll be like oh i can't read this text and then codex itself or astra itself will actually make the change and um but i do want to show you that you can guide it by selecting And pressing copy L.
And so that is plugins. That's the very basic of plugins. They have some plugins that are built into the platform.
And they also have some plugins that aren't built into the platform. But all you have to do is say, hey, how do I connect this app to Codex? Codex will figure it out and turn it into a skill.
The next one I want to talk about, right, the 13th thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can just ask Codex. what you should work on next. And what I mean by this is everyone always obsesses over how you can go out and do things with AI.
And no one ever talks about the fact that if you just add all those plugins, you can just go to Codex and be like, hey, I feel like I have a lot on my plate right now. What are three things that you can take off my plate that you can do that would be helpful? For all of those, please make a draft for whatever it is that you can do for me.
I need you to take some stuff off my plate. Please look at all of the connections and everything that's relevant to me that I use on a daily basis. And I really need you to take some things off my plate.
What can you do for me right now?
And I can fire this off. No one thinks like this. Because my business is very digital in the sense that a lot of I communicate on text and email and Slack.
I communicate with people. I'm constantly playing quality control. A lot of this can theoretically done by an AI.
So now, Kodak said, I'll look across your connected work and find three things that I can move forward now, then prepare concrete drafts for each. Super fun to do. And even if it's not ready to go, maybe it'll get you like 90 % there.
And here we go. So I need to create this like speaker. a thesis statement for a live presentation that I'm doing in a couple months.
And it went off and just created this document. And this is pretty cool. This is actually a decent starting point.
However, this is something that I would like to edit before I send it. However, this one is actually one that I would actually send. I don't want to open up the draft fully because it is slightly sensitive information, but this was created in Slack.
And then this involves my latest apartment. And this is actually a useful task. So it is saved in Gmail with separate move -in day plan used tomorrow morning.
And so I could very easily just say, yep, can you please send all three of these? And it would, in theory, take these off my plate. And I can just ask Codex to go off and at least make progress on all of my open tasks.
And it will use all of my contacts, figure out what I need to do. and help me get started. Okay, so now it's time to move to the more visual fun stuff.
And the 14th thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can fully work inside Blender and create insane 3D assets. So if you remember earlier, we created this project right here called Rocket League Game Riley. Remember, if we were to right click on this and hit reveal in Finder, everything that we've created For this project is inside this folder tons of code files Etc and even the blender files as well So here we have design five mouse cars, and then we change the shape now.
They have different shapes. This is pretty funny Now I believe we can just open up blender and look at this these are 3d models of These cars right here. This is truly insane Just like absolutely insane.
And so if we wanted to change one of these, remember this can just fully work in Blender. What's one change we'd want to make? I'm not sure I like this orange big one.
What we can do here, notice here this thing coming out of the side. So I can take a screenshot here and I can open this up. I'm going to grab this arrow and point down at this right here.
And I'm going to say, I'm going to copy this. And I'm going to go back to ChatGBT. I'm going to paste it in here and say, hey, can you change this color to like a gold?
And notice here this weird thing sticking out. Can you please do something about this?
And then also the really small mouse, can you make that like a chrome black instead of like a tiny little white mouse?
And so you can create assets in Blender. And then you can edit assets in Blender. I can open this up and it will edit it in real time.
Once it's done, it will update. And look at that. It made the changes live on Blender.
It changed it to gold and it got rid of that little thing that was right here. And then it made this little small one instead of white. It is now this chrome black color.
So that is how easy it is to create 3D graphics inside Blender. This is truly a difficult thing to do. Manually very difficult to do this.
I don't know how long it would take me to learn and then do this But now we have these little mouse cars now if you remember correctly we also created in here we had the Build high fidelity rocket league game. I'm not even gonna check on this game that we created What I'm gonna do is I'm going to take those five mouse cars that we created and bring them into the game Which brings me?
The 15th thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can create interactive, high -quality video games. Okay, in another chat in this session, we created five mouse cars. They're in Blender currently.
I want you to actually implement these mouse into this game. Make it super realistic. Make sure that there's a little menu where I can understand all of the controls and what to do.
And I want you to create this game right here. I want you to implement these into the game. And then I want to play it to deploy this game to Vercel so I can play it there.
And I can go at Vercel. Remember, we use Vercel to host it on the internet. I could do a GPT sites, but I just want to show you that you can deploy it straight to Vercel.
And now I'm going to run it. And it's going to create this Rocket League game with the assets that we created in Blender. So it's going to take these assets that we created and put it into a video game.
Which is just truly insane that you can just do this by talking to your computer. Okay, so this is just taking way too long. So I'm going to skip to the next one, which is using Codex to create interactive learning websites.
So this is Ash, and she's been creating these really cool interactive 3D websites that can teach you about really complex topics. This one's the human body. And so she created with Codex and GPT -Astra.
This website that separates every part of the human body into parts. And you can actually hover over it. You can learn about it.
And it is actually truly insane. Here she did the same thing with a Tesla. So check this out.
It is a 3D model of a Tesla. And it shows all of the parts. And you can go in and out.
Here's the Tesla. And then you can also separate it, right? You can take this Tesla and separate it into all of the individual parts, which is truly mind blowing.
And so if you ever create a 3D graphic or a 3D render inside Blender, you can always just say, please put this on a website and you can send it to someone else. So you would say something like, take this 3D asset, make it so I can pull it apart. and see all parts and then you can say put it on at sites make it public so i can send it to my friends and this will create a gbt sites give you a link and then you can send it to your friends okay going back to our previous one take a look at this it is done it says play click kick I like it.
So it's a mouse that play Rocket League, play soccer. It's called Click Kick. So I'm going to go ahead and you can see the link when you hover over it.
It's click kick, click dash kick dot Vercel dot app. You can play this. This is on the Internet.
So I'm going to right click on this. I'm going to open this up in the external browser. And look at this loading screen.
We have our 3D assets right there. I can play a match. How do I?
Oh, let's go. Look at this. One shot.
Oh, no. I was never good at Rocket League. How do I get up?
Get up.
Get back. How do I... Why did I pick the smallest mouse?
Oh, yeah. Breakaway, baby. Oh, my God.
I'm tiny. I'm tiny.
Oh my god, I can't even hit the ball. I'm too small.
I literally can't hit the ball. I'm too small. My mouse is so small.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, I got scored on. No. Alright, let's play again.
Oh!
Oh my God, I'm getting destroyed. All right, I quit. But anyway, that's how easy it is to create a video game.
You just create some 3D models in Blender and then say, put them into a video game and add physics. It's that easy. And GBT -6 Astra, especially on like high, is incredibly good at visual tasks and it can just do things for you.
Send you a link. You can send it to all your friends. You could very easily make this a multiplayer.
Just ask Codex, how do I make this multiplayer? I want to send it to my friends. Boom, send it to them.
You'll be able to play it multiplayer. So the 17th useful thing that you need to understand about Codex in order to master it, and this one's really important, right? I made a video about this a few days ago, is the scheduled tasks feature.
We've talked about this a little bit today. I do want to go into it a little bit. So if you go to a new chat, and actually we can go to an existing chat.
Remember in our recents we said... draft three helpful tasks in any chat thread, you can just say, hey, I want you to do this at 10 a .m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
And that's it. Codex will go off and it will create a task for you. Now, the thing about Codex is if you don't always have your computer running, it will not run at that time.
Right. Because Codex happens. and it's creating these files locally on your computer, it's not going to run if your computer is off.
And so this is why I have some of my scheduled tasks. You can see this cloud icon right here. These are created on GPT work.
You can see here it just added something. I saw that it just added something. If we go back, we can see that it said take three things off my plate.
I think is what it's called here. And if you click on it, you can open it up right here. And here are the instructions that get sent to Codex every time this runs.
And if you clicked on frequency here, it shows Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a .m. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a .m. It will be sent this prompt basically, and it will go off and do those tasks.
You could see here it says runs in. And then it says draft three helpful tasks. That means it will run and then it will respond in this chat session right here.
You can see after I ran this task right here, it responded right here and showed me the document in this chat session. When it says runs in this chat session, you can see the name of the chat session right here. That means every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a .m., it will respond in this chat session.
So this would be an example of. a good chat session to either pin or you could say, hey, any of the active automations or scheduled tasks that we have, can you please create a new section in Codex called automations and then add all of those chat sessions to that section inside Codex? So what I'm going to do right now is I need to organize all of the chat threads that I should check every day.
So now it says, I'll find the tasks linked to your active automations and create an automation section and move those tasks into it, which sounds really useful. And look at this. It just added four chat sessions to this.
It said draft three helpful tasks, check upcoming video statuses. build instinct, tweet monitor, and schedule monthly business review. All of these automations or all of these chat sessions, and you can see this little clock icon, and that shows that it involves a scheduled task, which is really cool.
So now I have all of my automations organized right here, and I can check those chat sessions. Okay, so the 18th really useful thing that you can do inside Codex is you can get it to control your email and iMessage. Email is one of the things that I hate the most.
I am constantly using Codex to use Gmail. So I'm going to say, hey, can you look at the latest emails from Emily at agentnative .inc? I need you to give me a little summary of them, and I need you to draft a response to her for me, please, so I can approve it so you can send it.
And so I'm constantly doing this. Like if I don't want to go through, I'll just say like, hey, what are my most important emails I need to respond to? It'll give me a list and it'll summarize them.
And I'll just say, hey, can you draft up an email that says this? Can you draft up another email that says this? And then I'll have all of them right there and I'll just be like, yep, send them all.
And I'll just do this with my voice. I'm using Whisperflow. Okay, so here's its response.
By the way, I actually had to redact some of these company names right here. I said, please make the companies redacted. But yeah, so this is Emily's.
draft or draft to Emily. And I'm just going to say, OK, yep, send it as is. Keep the redactions of the company names and send the email.
Then give me a link to the sent email when you're done. And this automatically happens because in its memory, it always knows that whenever it edits a document or sends an email, it sends me a link to that email so I can open it up in the Codex browser. But I can fire this off and.
It is going to send this email to Emily. And there you go. It said sent to Emily exactly as approved.
And now if we can open this up in the Codex browser, and this should take us exactly to our email. And it did. So we can full screen this.
You can see, hey, Emily, thanks for staying on top of. And this is an email that was actually sent to Emily, which is really cool. You can fully control your email from your Codex.
And you can say, hey, additionally, I want you to please send this to Emily Lambert on text as well. I need you to send this to the exact message on text and then say, what are you up to as a follow -up message? And here this popped up.
Hey, Emily, thanks. So here it's like giving us an approval that we can do. And so I'm just going to hit continue.
And this completed the request. So if we open this up and go to text, this is my iMessage with Emily. It sent this to Emily.
And here we see that it says, what are you up to? I'm going to hit continue. And I can very easily go back to iMessage and we can see that it was sent to Emily.
you can get Codex to fully control your iMessages, which is a very fun experience. So the 19th thing that you need to know about Codex is that you can turn repeated workflows into skills. Over the past, you know, six months since I started using Codex, I have so many skills.
Skills are the individual units that make up a plugin, or at least one of the individual units that make up a plugin. Let me show you what I mean. If you go to the Notion plugin and scroll...
down here, you can actually see the four skills that come with the Notion plugin. If we come to the Vercel plugin, we can see that this one comes with 54 different skills, right? These are all of the skills that come bundled within a plugin which is created, which is this Vercel plugin.
So it has 54 skills. Now, I really like using skills when I use Codex. When I want to create something that is a specific format, I will create a skill.
Let me show you some of the skills that I have. So I have a YouTube thumbnail skill. This will automatically generate a thumbnail in my style.
I also have a YouTube researcher skill, which can scrape from YouTube. And then I also have a scrape creator skill, which can scrape social media from any platform. I can just download all of a creator's transcripts, full videos off any platform.
It's pretty insane that more people aren't talking about this. are all skills that I've set up. And so these are more advanced workflows, and I'm actually going to get to adding external APIs in a couple minutes.
But I first want to show a more basic example. Okay, so this is a Notion document that I created today. And this is actually the Notion doc created for this video.
And I put a lot of effort into this, right? Every single one of these sections has a re -hook. So it's like the fourth thing that you need to know about Codex is blah, blah, blah.
Right. This document outlines the entire video that we're creating now. And it has a really good intro that outlines this entire video.
So let's say that I wanted to be able to create this on any topic. What I would do is I would go to Codex and let's zoom in here. Hey, please create a skill that lets me create video outlines in this format.
Let's. call this format a let's just call it golden long form this is what it should look like notice the blue um bullet underneath each section that is a re -hook so the intro outlines what we're going to be talking about and then the list outlines the topic that we're discussing and this should be called golden long form this is a skill that we can reuse later so i can fire this off this can actually be set to like medium here and i can run this and here it is going to take this outline right here and it's going to turn it into a skill and this will allow me to take all this manual work that i did to come up with a good intro and an outline and it will make it a repeatable workflow that i can create for a future video Now this golden long form skill was created.
So this is a skill that was created. I can click on this and I can see all of the info about the skill. You don't really need to learn how to create skills.
You just need to tell your Codex agent, who's really good at creating skills, to create the skill for you. Now, when it gets created, let's say I was in a new chat, I could very easily go slash golden long form. Now it is something I can at mention and just say, I want you to create this on X topic.
Here's some additional ideas I want you to include. And it will create an ocean document because it has a skill for it. And speaking of skills, that brings me to number 20, right?
This is the 20th thing that you need to know about Codex, which is record and replay. Not all skills involve just doing things by typing out whatever it is that you want to repeat. Sometimes you want to show the agent the exact workflow.
And so what you could do is you can press at record and replay and you can say record my screen. Then we will turn it into a skill. And because GPT -6 Astra is so good at controlling your computer, you could do something manually.
So let's just say this skill is. creating thumbnails on paper. So when I fire off this prompt, what this is going to do is it's automatically going to start recording my screen.
And you'll see it pop up in just a second. Whatever I record on my screen, Codex can analyze that video, see everything that I do. Look at this.
So you can see that it's recording my screen. Now I can just navigate to paper. Now I'm going to go to dashboard.
And I'm going to go to Instagram graphics. Actually, this is not what I want. I want YouTube thumbnail graphics.
Here's my YouTube thumbnails. This is how I've created my thumbnails for a very long time. Look at this.
I can create thumbnails in paper. And so I could very easily open this up, right? I'm working on this right here.
I can very easily add another image. This is the desktop app that I created earlier. Let's say we wanted to use Grokbot.
I could copy this, paste this in here. I could then open this up again. And let's say we're talking about Grokbot and Codex.
I could copy this, paste it right here. Now I'm going to select this image, select this image and this image, open up this tab right here. And I would say replace the logo on left with the white logo.
Text should say Grokbot is the best. Then right logo should be the blue one. Text should say Codex new features.
And now I can run this. So this is actually how I create quick thumbnails. This is the actual workflow I'll use.
And look at this. Look at how easy that is. I can use paper.
I can create seven different variations of the thumbnail, right? And let's say I wanted to use a different image of me. I could select this, select this.
I could select all of this. The character that is in the Grokbot and Codex thumbnail should be replaced by the other. character's face.
So only replace the character, keep the Grok bot and the Codex logo, right? And we can just continue to create a ton of variations of this thumbnail. So we just recorded our screen.
Now I can go back to ChatGBT. I'm going to hit stop here. This will automatically input this information back to Codex.
Check this out. And so now it says I'm stopping the recording. I'm going to review your paper workflow and use it to build the thumbnail skill.
And because Codex has this computer use, it can fully control your computer, it is able to actually use these apps right now. Now, creating this skill is going to take forever. I have another video that I'll link in the description showing this process and how you can actually do this.
That'll be in the link in the description. The 21st thing that you need to understand about Codex that's really useful, especially with skills, is you can give skills outside APIs. I do this quite frequently.
So there is an app. It's called Scrape Creators. And I was telling you about it earlier.
This is a skill that I'd created, Scrape Creators.
Bullets. And I can change this to light. What this skill does is it can scrape from any social media platform, right?
Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn. It can just pull public creator data from all of them. It can pull the videos, the link in bio pages, everything.
It is a super scraper for social media. And so this skills API thing that you can do with Codex, right? With Codex, you can go to external.
APIs and you can set up, you need to set up a billing account, which means you need to give them a credit card because it costs money to use the scrape creators. And then what you're going to do is you're going to get an API key. And when you get this API key, you give it to Codex.
And then you're going to say something like this. You're going to say, hey, I want you to turn the capabilities of this API. And then you're going to give it a link.
to the documentation. Every single external API, including Scrape Creators, which I'll show you in just a second, comes with documentation. Of this API, you're going to give it the documentation link.
Here is my API key. Now, let me show you what I mean. If I go to type in, I'm just going to type in Scrape Creators API, I'm going to find scrapecreators .com.
And I can very easily just click get started. When you sign into this account, when you sign into your account, you're going to get an API key. You're going to add your billing information.
You're going to copy the key and you're going to do exactly this. You're going to go to Codex and say, hey, I want you to turn the capabilities of scrape creators of this API of scrape creators. Here is my API key.
Please figure it out. I want to be able to do all of the things that you can do with this API. And then.
Three to five minutes later. This will work. I've done this with scrape creators.
I've done this with FAL Actually that was on a different account. Oh, yeah my YouTube my YouTube researcher skill uses a skill called SERP API Have another external API and it is called remove background This allows the agent to remove the background.
And these are external APIs that you can just give to your agent and then it will be able to do those things. So if it creates an image, you could just use the remove background skill and it can remove the background and send you a new image without the background. I highly recommend digging deep and learning APIs.
All of the apps that you might need a wrapper for to go and like use some remove background wrapper. You can just give that capability to Codex. Okay.
So I want to share with you an example. of one external API. This is the most powerful external API that I have even more than scrape creators.
And this brings me to the 22nd thing that you need to know about codex is you can give it a video understanding skill. And this is on agent native .inc. This is a resource on agent native that you can download right now.
And it has this full skill and on Gemini, Google Gemini is not the best model right now. As of September 8th, It's not that great of a model.
However, there's one feature that they have. So if you go to AISTudio .Google .com, you can actually test this out for yourself. You can upload a video.
So if you were to upload a video to Google AI Studio, you can upload a video and Gemini can actually watch the video. Like on all of the other platforms, if you try to include a video on Codex, it'll like cut the video into frames. It'll extract a transcript.
So it will know some about the video, but it will take way longer and it will be more expensive. Google actually has a native video uploading skill, meaning you can upload it like an image. It's really fast to analyze it.
Like I can just say. Tell me about every three second frame in this video in a table. And so what this will do is this will look at this minute and 13 second video and it will pretty quickly give me a response.
It can analyze videos really quickly. And look at that. It only took about 20 seconds, and it went through the entire video and looked at every three -second frame within the video and tells you exactly what happened.
Google has a ton of video data. I don't know how they do this, but you can very quickly analyze videos with Google Gemini. Now, what does this have to do with Codex?
Well, you can get a Google. API key. And you can click on this right here, get API key, and you can create a new API key and copy it to your clipboard.
Remember what we were just talking about, right? Remember what we were just talking about? Hey, I want you to turn the capabilities of, and in this case, it would be Google Gemini, specifically their video analysis skill.
Here is my API key. And then you paste key. And then you're basically just going to take this and you are going to give it to Codex.
And after you do that, you can create a skill that I call video analyze skill. So I could give it 10 videos and it can just analyze a bunch of videos the same way it did it in 20 seconds. It basically took that functionality.
And it allows Codex to actually delegate this, right? So I would say analyze this video or analyze these many videos, send that prompt into Codex. It would actually send this MP4 file for Gemini to analyze it.
And then Gemini would send its analysis back to Codex where it would process it. And the way I've set up this skill is that Codex may actually do another round of analysis if it doesn't feel satisfied. Like, for example, if you gave it a short form video and you want to understand why it worked, maybe it would do one analysis prompt asking about its transcript.
And then it would do another round asking about for its on -screen visuals. So it would do that twice, and then eventually it would process it and send you a response back. Or it could create some sort of document, right?
You could ask it to create a Google Doc. And so let me show you how this works. So I could just use this video analyze skill.
And then here's a video that I could do right here. So I'm just going to go ahead and copy this video. I'm going to paste it right here.
Hey, this video on Instagram didn't do that well. Can you analyze this? Use this skill and tell me why it didn't perform well.
I want a really detailed answer. I want to know how I can make the transcript better. And then I also want you to tell me about the key frames and visuals in this and what visuals I can do better.
So I'm going to go ahead and change this up to medium. And we're going to fire this prompt. So because I gave it this video analyze skill, and this video analyze skill uses the Google Gemini abilities here, it's automatically going to use this agentic video understanding mode right here.
It was bad 10K views. I'm just going to fire that prompt in.
And it's going to automatically use the default model, Gemini 3 .8 Flash. It's all in the skill. And remember, this is in the link in the description.
It's on agentnative .inc. And now it's going to analyze it. And look at the level at which this analyzed the video.
My strongest read, this video is a compelling privacy story, but it makes viewers work through several other stories before getting there. The editing adds movement, yet most important software demonstrations are difficult to read. Gemini unanalyzed the full 53 second video.
You reported roughly 10 ,000 views without retention. The opening creates a promise that the video doesn't fully deliver. And the point is, with this skill, you get a much more deeper understanding by the AI by the time it gives you a response.
It can fully watch a video and it can outline everything, right? Current wording or idea, why it weakens the explanation. And here it literally gave me how I would revise the transcript and it divided it into those three second chunks, what I would change and how I would change it.
And here's the version that I would rerecord. And it gave me a full new transcript to try out. So now that our AI is more visual and it can view videos, this takes me to the next one.
The 23rd thing that you need to know about Codex is you can create inline charts directly inside Codex. So this is going to be a quick one. Please use your inline charts to create your new idea.
And I want a flowchart of ideas, and I want you to use different mermaid diagrams to share your ideas with me. Inline, don't create any artifact. Do it with your inline chart creation skills.
I don't even need a special skill for this. This is actually built into Codex. It can use something called mermaid diagrams, and it can create diagrams directly in the chat here, like right in line.
And it's really cool. Check this out. Look, it's just going to create this chart in line.
I don't know what it's creating. Look at this. AI can work with all your messages.
So it's a privacy story, productivity story, business story, right? The revised story should move from one personal stakes to proof, then back to human question. So now it's a lot more linear, right?
It makes a lot more sense. Here it's showing a sequence diagram directly in line. Group chat from the AI agent, account owner, and it shows kind of everything about it.
Here's a proposed. Real sequence from four seconds. Look at this.
We're just finding new ways to share this information. And so I going back to the skills theme. OK, whenever I want you to.
I love this format, by the way. I absolutely love it. I want you to please turn this into a skill and just call this like Riley visual format.
And then put in your memory that, like, whenever something should be done with visuals, please use visuals. I love these visuals. Use these a lot more often.
Put this in your memory. Like, I just want you to do this more. I don't like text as much.
You know, even with emails or something. Like, I really want you to find a way to work this into your daily routine and then make this skill as well. And because Codex has memory built in, all you have to say is like, I want this format more.
Like, look at how much more fun this is to read. It's like opening A versus opening B. It's so easy to see rather than like a brick of text.
So this is just inline diagrams. All you have to do is ask Codex. OK, so the 24th thing that you need to understand about Codex is you can control it from your phone.
So if we go to the chat GPT app on our phone right here. And then if we go to settings, right, if you go to settings and you're going to go to settings and you're going to type in remote and you're going to see this connections and remote, you're going to click on this and then you're going to see the devices that can control this Mac.
I'm going to hit add. And now what I can do is I can very easily just go to the camera and we can scan this QR code right here. It'll take us to GPT.
This will finish your secure setup. So you can see right here. Now we are automatically connected to the app here.
So now I can fully control Codex from my phone. And all of the things that I've talked about today apply, right? We can see pinned automations.
We have projects and we have chats. I can create a new chat and we can say, please use the, and I can go Riley.
visuals, skill, and use inline charts to explain the new discovery that OpenAI just made, the scientific discovery. And so I can just use Codex from anywhere. And check this out.
You see this running on my phone right here. If I go to Recents, you can see this is running. And this is in perfect sync.
I can control Codex from my phone. Now my computer does need to be on. And here we can see that it is creating these charts.
I actually don't know. This might be a bad example because I, oh, they render on our phone. Look at this.
All of these charts render perfectly on our phone. We can even full screen them. I have never done this once on my phone.
Like look at these charts. But this is such a cool way to use Codex. And so we're using this directly from our phone.
We are fully controlling this. If we create a GPT sites, we can create GPT sites on Codex and we can run it on our phone. Anything that we can do on our computer, we can do on our phone because our phone is just remote controlling the desktop app from our computer.
That's all the remote does. And it is so fun to use. And then another thing that we can do directly from our phone is we can go back.
Let's go ahead and go back. Notice here that we have this new chat button, but we also have this real time voice button. We can use Kodak's real -time voice through the remote, which is mind -blowing.
Hey buddy, I need you to spin up a new chat. I want you to use GPT -6 Astra in this new chat. I need you to spin it up.
And what I want this, what do you want you to do in this chat is just create a little GPT sites for me. This GPT sites should just be a little diagram and it should be the same format as agentnative .inc, like the same styling and such of this new Meta Muse platform that just came out. Please create a GPT sites report, make it interactive.
I want to be able to click around, but it should be relatively like add a few charts. It should be relatively simple. Spin up this new chat for me.
Can you do that?
I did it. I gave you access. Okay, I can see in the Codex app, you have spun this up.
And I noticed here that you added a prompt here. You created this chat, and that's pretty cool. Thank you.
Awesome. Glad that worked. Once it finishes, I can help review the report or refine anything you want.
Amazing. Can you spin up a new chat that just checks my email and Slack and anything that just came in from Jake? Pulling that into a separate read -only inbox check now.
I'll surface anything new. Amazing. Thank you.
And I notice, as you can see here, look at this. It says spun up a new chat. And so all of the connections or plugins that we have on Codex right here, Codex remote, it can spit up new chats that can use these plugins.
And so this is why I like having Codex running 24 seven, anywhere I go with my phone, I can just go anywhere I want. I can use Codex from anywhere. I don't need to be at my computer to get the power of Codex, which is just so unbelievably underrated.
I mean, look at how cool this is. So we're making our way through these, right? We just talked about video understanding.
inline charts now we can connect our phone to it now this brings us to number 25 the 25th thing that you need to understand about codex is you can generate images and you can edit them directly inside codex so now what i want to do is i'm going to say please create a thumbnail in my style for a new video on codex and i can use my app that i created in codex right command shift space I can copy this Codex logo.
I can also go like this. Look at this. I can just immediately look up, look at this, Riley Brown YouTube.
And I can, oops, I'm in my saved. Let's go like this. Boom.
Hopefully it, look at this. I can copy my YouTube thumbnail that easily. Please, can you replace the OpenAI logo?
with the Codex logo attached here and make text say 28 things you need to know. And I can fire off this prompt. And here you can see that I'm using the built -in Codex image tool, preserving your portrait, bold, white, yellow text.
And you can see the image being generated right here. And look at this. It is done.
So it created this image right here. And if I click on it, right, I can change it to this format right here. But it comes with this like video editor.
So I can very easily remember the annotation skill earlier. I can click on this comment button right here. I can very easily just click on this, make a shirt white, and then I can add this as a comment.
I can very easily click here. I said slightly more stars. I could say make this more bold and 3D text, add more shadows, right?
Now we have those three comments, and I can say make edits. So now it will edit those with those three comments in mind. And there you go.
It made the changes based on our comments. It added more stars, it made the text more 3D, and it made it white. this feature right here it basically replaces any need for photoshop you can just edit the image exactly how you want it it's super useful and you could copy it it's that easy okay so now i want to move to the 26th thing that you absolutely need to know and i think this one's incredibly important for using codecs which is you can use sub agents when doing long tasks.
Take this task. For example, I want you to research these YouTubers. I list out like seven or eight YouTubers extract their 10 videos.
And for this, we're actually going to use a skill scrape. creators and give me an analysis on what they are doing. Now, if I enter this prompt right now, exactly like this, it's going to take forever because it's going to do everything sequentially.
However, if I say use sub agents for each one, they're actually going to do them in parallel. So per unit of time, this will actually use up. way more tokens.
And that's why it doesn't really use subagents unless you explicitly ask, because if it did, it would just use way more tokens. But if you have a big task that you need to get done with and you want them to analyze it. And in fact, you could actually say use subagents with a cheaper model than do analysis as this model right here.
This can actually help you save tokens. And so I'm going to move this up to medium. And we can now run this with subagents.
And the UI for the subagents and subagents in general is super underrated. Watch this real quick. And we're actually going to open up this summary toggle.
And actually nothing's happened yet. So one sec. It'll open it up in just a second.
It'll actually show what subagents are working. And look at this. Here it created a subagent.
This one is for Greg, Matt, and Kane. It started working. So I clicked on it, and I can see that this subagent is working.
Actually, there's three subagents working right now. I can click on this. Three subagents working.
So the All In and Moonshots, Cleo, Ridgemine, Greg, Matt, Kane, these three subagents are working, and I can click on them to see their status. This one's thinking. Cleo is thinking.
and all in Moonshots is thinking. So it tries not to use that many sub -agents. I think it decided that three sub -agents was best for this task.
Now it will actually scrape them all in parallel, bring the information back to the main agent, and then they will give us a response with Astra, which is really cool. Sub -agents really allow you to save a lot of time. Now, I actually don't want to wait for this to finish because honestly, I've been filming for about seven straight hours right now.
I'm getting really tired. But the point is, it'll gather all this information, bring it back to the main agent. The main agent will give me a response.
If you're ever using a skill that takes a really long time, do them in parallel. It'll save you a ton of time. All right.
For the 27th thing that you need to understand about codecs is computer use. I didn't really make a big enough deal about this, but with Astra. With Astra, it is getting so disturbingly good at controlling your computer.
If you ask it to use computer use, which you can do by just going like this. You could just go at computer, right? This will help you control your computer.
If you at mention this, it can control your computer. It can literally control your computer like this. And it can create this on Canva.
You see it has a photo of this guy. Computer use is drawing it in real time. This is how precise and how good computer use is getting.
When you do this on a Mac, it can actually run this in the background. So you don't even need to keep it in the foreground. And sometimes when I'm using Codex, I'll be using another app and I'll minimize it and I'll just see Codex working in the background.
And so I expect over the next six months, this is going to get 10 times better and 10 times faster and maybe even significantly cheaper. This is something that you need to experience for yourself. I couldn't show you anything that.
would give you the true feeling that you should get with computer use, then you just trying it for yourself. You must try this for yourself. Computer use is absolutely insane.
All right, we finally made it. I am so tired. This is insane.
This video took forever, but we're here. The last thing that you need to know about Codex is really cool feature. It's called whatever you want.
There is no amount of time I can make a video. that would share every single thing that codex can do that's not really how ai is going to work in the long run over the next year you're going to start realize that these products are more like jarvis and not like not like if you squint like jarvis i mean actually like jarvis whenever Like, did you ever once think in your life that you would have a product that you can talk to that would build full 3D models and then put it into a video game?
When was that ever even a possibility? When did you ever think something like that would be possible? It's never been possible.
What I want to get through to you through this video, anything that you can do on a computer, Codex can in theory do. You could figure out a way to jerry -rig Codex to control any external app. So there's really no limitations to the things that you can do in Codex.
So for this last one, I just want to encourage you to use your imagination. If something can happen on a computer, you can probably figure out a way to automate it or do it through Codex. and use GPT -6, the most powerful model in the world.
And that is what I want to encourage to you today. Let's do a quick recap before we go. Today, we talked about the fact that Codex is the app, GPT -6 is the model, super powerful model.
You can build any app. When you build an app, it just creates files on your computer and it's very easy to create a web app, right? A site, an app, a game.
If you want to get the web app on... the internet and send it to a friend. The easiest way to do that is GPT sites.
Sites are good for personal sites and team sites. And then you can also just create any type of app, right? You can create desktop apps and iOS apps.
You can use a build iOS app skill. I created my desktop app. I showed you, I used it three times in this, not only to make this video, but during this video, which was very fun.
There's also a really powerful in -app browser. Additionally, you can create documents, right? They have built -in documents.
We created some spreadsheets. We created a presentation, et cetera. We also used annotate mode.
Whether you're creating a document or a website, you can annotate directly on it and you can give feedback to the agent on how it should change something. We also talked about my stack for creating production ready apps. This is a 10 hour, like a two hour video by itself.
If I went super deep, I'll do that in a future video. I just wanted to let you know that this is the stack that I was using. We also talked about projects in the sidebar.
We talked about the fact that you can do multitask and you can do many tasks at once. It's super useful. You can create sections.
You can also get Codex to create sections within the app and organize all of your chats. You can create plugins and you can plug into every tool that you've ever used, no matter what. It's amazing that you can just do that.
You can connect an entire business, my whole business. Every single part of it is connected to Codex. I'm filming this video on a tool called Tela.
Tela. I have set up to the MCP so I can get all the transcripts for all the videos that I've ever filmed so that I can use them in my content. This is insane.
And then also you don't need to like have a plan every time. You can just say, hey, look at all the plugins. Tell me what we should do next.
Help me out. You can ask Codex to do that. You can also get it to create anything you want in Blender, which is just insane.
And then you can put those Blender assets in a video game. Right. And that's how we created that Rocket League game with the mouse.
I don't know why we did that, but. We did it. And you can also use this technology to create interactive learning tools.
You can take any prompt that you do in Codex. You can turn it into a scheduled task or automation. You can fully control your emails and texts through Codex.
You can create skills. If you have a skill that you don't want to describe and you want to show Codex, you can use record and replay. You can add external APIs to skills, which is just insane and awesome and sick.
You can also create inline charts. You can connect your phone with the chat GPT app to Codex. You can control Codex 24 seven, as long as your computer is on in a future video coming up very soon.
I'm going to show you my. dedicated codex setup. I'm very excited.
Actually, I haven't fully set it up yet, but I'm very excited to have codex running 24 seven. You can generate images, use sub agents to save time and computer use is insane. You need to just hop in and test it.
And then you can just do whatever you want. That's what we covered today. Anyway, it is 11 .05 PM.
I'm pretty sure I started this at like noon. I'm exhausted. Thank you guys so much for watching this video.
I wanted to just get all my ideas out regarding GPT -6 and Codex, explain a little bit how I'm using it and give this super overarching overview. Obviously in future videos, I'm gonna be digging deep into more of these, right? I made a recent video with 200K views on GPT sites alone.
That video did really well. And every single thing that I discussed today will be on .inc in the description below a full guide that you can download that you can get of everything that we discussed as a little cheat sheet. Do it for you.
Do it for you. This video is not sponsored by anyone. Just wanted to get this video out.
This model's insane. I love Codex. I'm tired.
but I love you guys. This has been such a fun last three months. So many of you have been commenting.
I really appreciate it. I wouldn't be here without you. And I've been seeing more and more people around New York City saying like, hey, Riley, I love your videos in real life, which is like pretty cool thing.
I've had a lot of cool conversations in person with people I've seen in real life that have come up to me saying that like my videos have genuinely changed the way I do business or changed the way that I do something. And it's been awesome. So anyway, thank you guys so much for watching.
I'll see you here in the next one.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The opening bet is total: one tool, everything else thrown out. The host says he has run his startup and grown channels past two million followers on Codex for six months, and the next two hours are the receipts, filmed in a single sitting from noon to just past eleven at night.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

04:19list

The three things that make Codex good

  1. Built-in abilities (browser, sites, documents, computer use)
  2. The model (GPT-6 Astra, trained for Codex)
  3. Your added plugins

Only the last two are under your control: pick the model tier per task and connect the apps you already use.

Steal forExplaining any agent product: capabilities, model, connections
22:30concept

Model effort by task

  1. Light: sidebar cleanup, simple questions
  2. Medium: most building and research
  3. High: iOS apps, priority briefs, anything high-stakes

Astra is overkill for easy work. Dropping reasoning effort saves tokens; raising it is reserved for tasks where the answer dictates real decisions.

Steal forAny per-task model routing policy
39:23list

The production-ready stack

  1. Ask Codex 'what stack should I use?'
  2. GitHub for version history
  3. Vercel for hosting
  4. Convex for the database
  5. Namecheap domain pointed at Vercel

One setup prompt: 'help me set up so you can fully control GitHub, Vercel and Convex, let's get signed in to all of them.' Then GPT Sites for internal tools, this stack for public products.

Steal forOnboarding a non-coder to a real deploy pipeline
44:40model

Recents, Projects, Sections

  1. Recents: 90% of tasks, auto-named
  2. Projects: only for real apps, creates a shared folder
  3. Sections: sidebar groupings the agent can populate for you

Organization is delegated too: ask Codex to sort its own chats into sections by criteria like 'every chat with a scheduled task'.

Steal forStructuring any multi-chat agent workspace
1:03:52concept

The 'take things off my plate' prompt

Once every plugin is connected, ask the agent what three things it can do for you right now and to draft each one. It reads Slack, Gmail, Notion and messages and returns ready-to-approve drafts. Works as a scheduled task three mornings a week.

Steal forAny connected-agent daily routine
59:27concept

The alignment prompt

'I'm about to plan my next month, quarter and year. Make one document that aligns me on all three. Look for my flaws and strengths, which activities waste time, who is most dependable, where I'm least dependable, and the one skill to upskill.' Only works with full business context connected.

Steal forQuarterly planning with a context-connected agent
1:19:01list

Three ways to make a skill

  1. Describe a format you like and ask for a skill (golden long form)
  2. Record and replay a manual workflow on screen
  3. Paste an external API's docs link and key and ask to wrap it

You never write skills by hand. Each method turns something you already do into a slash command.

Steal forAny agent platform with reusable workflows
CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK
1:54:02link
“Every single thing that I discussed today will be on agentnative.inc in the description below, a full guide that you can download, a little cheat sheet.”

Soft and late. The guide is mentioned once mid-video at the video-understanding skill (the skill file is on the site) and once in the sign-off. Explicitly not sponsored; the only pitch is the free written version.

MENTIONED ON CAMERA
1:30:11linkCodex Complete Guide (written version, agentnative.inc) ↗
1:11:09productClick Kick (the mouse soccer game) ↗
1:27:25toolScrape Creators API ↗
1:30:57toolGoogle AI Studio / Gemini video understanding ↗
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
Storyboard

Visual structure at a glance.

one-tool bet
hookone-tool bet00:00
the 28-box map
promisethe 28-box map06:10
GPT Sites prompt
valueGPT Sites prompt11:33
Notion in the in-app browser
valueNotion in the in-app browser26:32
generated comparison spreadsheet
valuegenerated comparison spreadsheet34:30
at-mention plugin picker
valueat-mention plugin picker56:40
mouse cars in Blender
valuemouse cars in Blender1:08:09
Gemini watches a video
valueGemini watches a video1:31:06
phone remote + voice
valuephone remote + voice1:42:35
finished map, recap
ctafinished map, recap1:53:32
Frame Gallery

Visual moments.

one-tool bet00:00Frame at 02:19 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)02:19Frame at 03:35 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)03:35Frame at 05:01 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)05:01the 28-box map06:10Frame at 07:53 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)07:53
one-tool bet00:00Frame at 02:19 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)02:19Frame at 03:35 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)03:35Frame at 05:01 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)05:01the 28-box map06:10Frame at 07:53 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)07:53Frame at 09:18 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)09:18Frame at 10:13 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)10:13GPT Sites prompt11:33Frame at 13:38 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)13:38Frame at 14:48 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)14:48Frame at 16:30 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)16:30Frame at 18:12 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)18:12Frame at 19:22 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)19:22Frame at 20:48 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)20:48Frame at 21:35 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)21:35Frame at 23:53 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)23:53Frame at 25:10 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)25:10Notion in the in-app browser26:32Frame at 27:58 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)27:58Frame at 29:20 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)29:20Frame at 30:59 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)30:59Frame at 31:59 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)31:59Frame at 33:21 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)33:21generated comparison spreadsheet34:30Frame at 36:23 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)36:23Frame at 38:07 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)38:07Frame at 38:48 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)38:48Frame at 40:22 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)40:22Frame at 42:22 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)42:22Frame at 43:02 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)43:02Frame at 44:45 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)44:45Frame at 46:37 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)46:37Frame at 48:03 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)48:03Frame at 49:30 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)49:30Frame at 50:56 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)50:56Frame at 52:22 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)52:22Frame at 53:51 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)53:51Frame at 54:35 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)54:35at-mention plugin picker56:40Frame at 58:14 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)58:14Frame at 58:54 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)58:54Frame at 60:58 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)60:58Frame at 63:03 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)63:03Frame at 63:26 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)63:26Frame at 65:35 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)65:35Frame at 66:43 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)66:43mouse cars in Blender68:09Frame at 69:28 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)69:28Frame at 71:32 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)71:32Frame at 72:04 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)72:04Frame at 73:53 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)73:53Frame at 75:19 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)75:19Frame at 76:45 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)76:45Frame at 77:54 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)77:54Frame at 79:37 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)79:37Frame at 81:03 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)81:03Frame at 83:01 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)83:01Frame at 83:56 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)83:56Frame at 85:22 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)85:22Frame at 86:48 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)86:48Frame at 88:34 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)88:34Frame at 89:40 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)89:40Gemini watches a video91:06Frame at 92:32 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)92:32Frame at 93:58 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)93:58Frame at 95:24 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)95:24Frame at 96:50 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)96:50Frame at 98:16 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)98:16Frame at 99:43 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)99:43Frame at 101:09 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)101:09phone remote + voice102:35Frame at 104:01 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)104:01Frame at 105:27 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)105:27Frame at 106:53 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)106:53Frame at 108:08 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)108:08Frame at 109:26 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)109:26Frame at 110:51 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)110:51Frame at 112:49 from 28 Insane Things Astra Can Do (2 Hour Course)112:49finished map, recap113:32
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