Software development is becoming more agentic. Developers are moving beyond autocomplete to delegating complex tasks to Codex. Codex can understand large codebases, use tools, make changes, run tests, and prepare work for human review. For enterprises, the opportunity is speed with control: helping teams build faster while maintaining the governance, security, and auditability they need.

In the report, Gartner recognized Codex’s strengths across its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Gartner recognized Codex’s strengths across agentic software development, enterprise governance, sandboxing, and flexible deployment options. Gartner highlighted Codex’s broad developer surface—including the Codex app, IDE extensions, CLI, SDKs, and cloud-based orchestration—as well as enterprise controls such as approval gates, RBAC, customizable policies, OS-level sandboxing, and auditable workspace governance.

We believe these advantages helped make OpenAI the right partner for Cisco, which used Codex to develop the majority of its AI Defense security platform, shortening delivery time from several quarters to weeks. Cisco’s SVP of Products for AI Software and Platform, DJ Sampath, shares how Codex is changing the way Cisco builds software.

In our view, the best coding agents will combine frontier model capabilities with a deeply integrated product experience. That's why we are building Codex to reason through complex tasks, use developer tools, operate in controlled environments, and provide the governance, security, and control organizations need to deploy AI across the software development lifecycle.