OpenAI has unveiled, alongside Work Louder, a very interesting device: the new Codex Micro is a micro-keyboard that, for $230, aims to change how we work with coding agents. After months of development on Codex and ChatGPT Work, we finally have OpenAI’s first hardware device.
A keyboard designed for Codex agents
The kbd‑1.0‑codex‑micro, its official name, comes with dedicated RGB-backlit keys that show each agent’s status in real time. We can tell if it’s thinking, running, waiting, or finished, even before switching windows.
Its design offers two versions, clicky and silent, depending on your preference, and, when integrated with Codex, it lets us assign key actions such as accept, reject, start a new chat, or activate push‑to‑talk directly from the keyboard.
The device also features a dial to adjust the model’s reasoning power on the fly, something very useful when we switch between simple tasks and more complex analysis. Meanwhile, with the integrated joystick we can launch flows like reviewing a PR, debugging errors, or refactoring our code with a single touch.
The whole approach is very much in line with OpenAI’s philosophy, which seeks to integrate agents into our entire workflow and uses the new ChatGPT 5.6 to request execution permissions or apply more or less reasoning depending on the task.
This launch, although small in scope, shows that OpenAI is taking its first steps beyond software. After advances like its first Jalapeño chip, and now that we know what OpenAI’s first gadget will be, we’ll have to watch what comes next.
