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02 Sep 2026, 3:03 AM	Simon Willison	6.5	Codex bundles LibreOffice Simon Willison discovered that the OpenAI Codex desktop app (now rebranded as ChatGPT) caches 1.7GB of runtimes in ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/, including full Python, Node.js, Poppler, git, and LibreOffice installations. A skills folder instructs Codex on how to locate and use these bundled binaries for document processing. Why: If you're building AI agent tooling, this reveals how OpenAI approaches local document handling—bundling heavyweight runtimes like LibreOffice directly into the desktop app rather than relying on server-side conversion. Builders shipping desktop AI agents should consider whether similar local-runtime bundling is necessary for reliable document parsing, and check their own cache directories for unexpected disk usage from AI tooling. ai-agents developer-tools openai codex local-runtimes

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02 Sep 2026, 3:03 AM

Simon Willison

6.5

Codex bundles LibreOffice

Simon Willison discovered that the OpenAI Codex desktop app (now rebranded as ChatGPT) caches 1.7GB of runtimes in ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/, including full Python, Node.js, Poppler, git, and LibreOffice installations. A skills folder instructs Codex on how to locate and use these bundled binaries for document processing.

Why: If you're building AI agent tooling, this reveals how OpenAI approaches local document handling—bundling heavyweight runtimes like LibreOffice directly into the desktop app rather than relying on server-side conversion. Builders shipping desktop AI agents should consider whether similar local-runtime bundling is necessary for reliable document parsing, and check their own cache directories for unexpected disk usage from AI tooling.