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OpenAI agent harness cuts runaway tokens for Codex and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI's agent harness cuts runaway token usage for Codex and ChatGPT Work.
Jason Hiner / The Deep View: A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage — The unsung hero behind OpenAI's 2026 transformation is a technology that rarely gets mentioned, and that most of its 1 billion monthly users have never even heard of.
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