Automation Articles
6 articles across AI Catchup's news, guides, tutorials, and comparisons.
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OpenAI Codex Adds Record & Replay: Turn a Demonstrated Mac Workflow Into a Reusable Skill
OpenAI shipped Record & Replay in Codex app 26.616, a macOS feature that turns a workflow you demonstrate into a reusable skill. It builds on Computer Use, which you or your administrator must enable, and is unavailable at launch in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
Claude Code adds dynamic workflows (research preview) for large parallel agent runs
Dynamic workflows in Claude Code let Claude write orchestration scripts, fan out work across tens to hundreds of parallel subagents, verify results, and resume long-running jobs.
OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel: Connect Private MCP Servers Over Outbound-Only HTTPS
OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel connects private and on-prem MCP servers to ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API without opening inbound firewall ports. You need a tunnel_id, an API key with Tunnels Read plus Use, and -- separately -- ChatGPT developer-mode access. That permission split is the most common setup blocker.
Codex Hooks and Programmatic Access Tokens: Setup, Trust Model, and What Actually Runs Today
Codex access tokens are ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspace credentials for non-interactive Codex CLI runs. Create one in the ChatGPT admin console at chatgpt.com/admin/access-tokens, then authenticate with the CODEX_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable or codex login --with-access-token. Hooks are the in-session extensibility framework: eleven lifecycle events, of which only command handlers execute today.
Claude Code Routines: Schedule, API, and GitHub-Trigger Your AI Agents
Claude Code Routines is Anthropic's new way to run saved Claude Code configurations automatically -- by schedule, API call, or GitHub event. Routines run on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure with a prompt, repo, and MCP connectors. Available in research preview on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
Scheduled AI Coding Agents in 2026: Claude Code Routines vs Cursor Automations vs Codex vs Warp vs Gemini CLI
Five major AI coding platforms schedule and trigger agents differently. Claude Code Routines and Cursor Automations both ship schedules, API calls, and native source-control events; Cursor's trigger set is by far the widest. OpenAI's product is now ChatGPT scheduled tasks and is still schedule-only. Warp orchestrates other vendors' agents. Gemini CLI ships no scheduler.