Supervise
A tiny background utility starts and watches the official Codex app-server.
Unofficial · Windows · Experimental
Keep the agents.Replace the window.
A tiny continuity layer that keeps Codex threads alive while the desktop app updates, quits, or restarts.
Open source · MIT · No desktop patching
01
Desktop UISafe to restart
REPLACED02
Agent backendSupervised outside the app
ACTIVEThis launch page was built inside a thread that survived the first restart.
01real restart survived
127.0.0.1loopback only
0desktop files patched
MITopen source
01 / ARCHITECTURE
The window was never the work.
Codex normally launches the process that owns your threads. When the window exits, that backend exits with it. Continuity moves one process boundary—and changes the failure mode.
Reconnect
The desktop talks to that backend over a loopback WebSocket instead of owning it.
Update the UI
Microsoft Store can replace the window while the externally supervised backend keeps running.
WHAT CHANGES
One owner.
- The app-server runs outside the desktop process tree.
- Future desktop launches reconnect to one loopback endpoint.
- The in-app restart prompt stays out of the way.
WHAT DOESN’T
Your Codex.
- The official app-server still handles threads and authentication.
- Signed desktop updates still arrive through Microsoft Store.
- No installed app files are patched, replaced, or resigned.
02 / INSTALLOne command.
One command.
No forced restart.
The bootstrapper verifies the release checksum, runs an isolated reconnect check, installs per-user, and starts the supervisor. It never restarts the desktop app.
Read the full install guidePS› $i="$env:TEMP\codex-continuity-install.ps1"; curl.exe -fsSL https://github.com/YesterdaysLemon/codex-continuity/releases/latest/download/install.ps1 -o $i; powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $i -StartNowNo admin prompt · SHA-256 verifiedTray optional with -NoTray
03 / AGENT DISCOVERYInspect first.
Inspect first.
Then act.
Agents and automation can read a mutation-free JSON plan before downloading anything. The machine-readable guide lives at /llms.txt.
powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $i -Plan -JsonThis page and the first public release were built inside the same Codex thread after its desktop window restarted.
Verified migration run · Windows 11 · August 20, 2026
Desktop backend childnone
External backendactive
Thread after restartcontinued
EXPERIMENTAL BOUNDARY
See the evidence Useful, reversible, unofficial.
Codex Continuity relies on experimental app-server transport and undocumented desktop environment hooks. A future Codex release may change them. The utility is deliberately small, fail-closed, and removable with one command.