Codex Micro - Tactile controls for your Codex agents
Codex Micro is a compact keyboard built with Work Louder to control your Codex agents. It features physical keys for common skills, a dial to adjust reasoning levels, and live RGB status lights so you can track agent progress without switching windows.
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Flowtica Scribe
Hi everyone!
@OpenAI and Work Louder built a little hardware control deck for Codex.
Each Agent Key shows live status from Codex, so you can see which agents are thinking, running, waiting, or done without opening every chat.
The joystick launches skills. The dial adjusts reasoning. The other keys can handle voice dictation, task switching, permissions, and follow-up work.
Of course, you can do all of this with a mouse.
But turning up the model’s brainpower with a physical dial is much more fun :)
Osaurus
@chrismessina hahaha true
@chrismessina OpenAI could offer the buyer a bonus token credit/charge-up at the keyboard's price, and it will be an absolute TOP SELLER.
Would love a built-in cost dashboard that breaks down spending per model and project in real time, basically a way to set budget alerts before the bill sneaks up on you. Would make planning so much easier.
Turning reasoning level into a physical dial is exactly the kind of unnecessary-but-perfect hardware idea I love :))
The live status keys are genuinely useful too. once you have multiple agents running, constantly opening chats just to see who is thinking, waiting, or finished gets annoying fast. This feels like a fun little control center for people who spend way too much time with Codex... which is probably most of us here :)
There are too many keys, I only need a "Make my SaaS profitable" key
It would be great to see a built-in usage dashboard showing token costs and request breakdowns per project in real time. Right now pulling that data requires extra tooling and it makes budgeting for client work harder than it needs to be.
a physical dial for reasoning level is such a fun idea. and the status lights so you're not alt-tabbing every 30 seconds to check if the agent is still working, that's the kind of small thing that actually changes how it feels to use
the tactile angle caught me off guard, in a good way. is it a physical thing or software controls?
The RGB status lights are the part I'd actually want, not for the fun factor but because "is this agent stuck or just thinking" is a real question when you're running things in the background across more than one company, like I do. I'd take a software-only version of that ambient status idea in a heartbeat even without the hardware.