Codex Pets: What They Are and How to Hatch Your Own

Codex now has desktop pets. Yes, really.
They are optional animated companions for the Codex app: small floating overlays that sit on your screen while Codex works. The silly part is obvious. The useful part takes about five minutes to notice.A Codex Pet can show whether Codex is running, waiting for input, or ready for review without making you switch back to the app every few minutes. If you already compare coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, this is the softer side of the same product q