OpenAI Ships Symphony: An Open-Source Orchestrator That Assigns Codex Agents to Every GitHub Issue

Symphony turns task trackers into autonomous agent queues, assigning a Codex agent to each open issue and leaving humans to review the output.

OpenAI released Symphony, an open-source agent orchestrator designed to bridge Codex with project management tools like GitHub Issues. As announced by @OpenAIDevs, the concept is deliberately ambitious: "What if every open issue had a Codex agent?" In practice, Symphony monitors a task tracker, spins up a Codex agent for each qualifying issue, and generates pull requests for human review.

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