Use cases

Things people report doing with agents. Curated feed excerpts link to their sources. Outcomes are not independently verified; categories are Oriel navigation labels.

• Tutor you through pen-and-paper math with a local agent

  Codex · Research · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case

  Done with Codex. An open-sourced tutor app runs Codex locally with a TUTOR.md brief to teach math with pen and paper using the user's subscription credits.

• Run agent builds and tests on remote Windows VMs

  Codex · Development · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case

  Done with Codex. A developer gives coding agents ssh access to WSL instances on remote Windows VMs to run builds and tests instead of on their Mac laptop.

• Run each coding agent session in a cgroup that is killed on completion

  Codex · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case

  Done with Codex. A developer built an agent spawner that launches each coding agent session in its own cgroup and kills leftover processes when the task completes, plus a job that clears stale tmp files.

• Run Codex with low-touch planning and port reservation

  Codex · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case

  Done with Codex. A commenter has Codex execute mostly on its own with human planning and review, including a portbroker that reserves and injects a port.

• Split work between ChatGPT architect and Codex executor

  ChatGPT, Codex · Work · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case

  Done with ChatGPT, Codex. The poster built a bridge where ChatGPT plans and reviews while Codex does the local execution work.

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