OpenAI Codex Sites: the launch layer arrives — inside your company workspace (opens in new tab)

When the company that ships the best coding agents also ships "prompt → hosted web app," that is not a competitor showing up. That is the strongest validation yet that agents need a launch layer. OpenAI's Codex Sites lets an agent turn a prompt into a running, hosted web app — login-gated, with a real database underneath — without you touching a deploy pipeline. That is the "deploy" half of launching an agent-built app, and OpenAI solved it cleanly, inside ChatGPT. But launching a product is ...