OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions.
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‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy

A document posted by OpenAI on Github as part of the open-sourcing for Codex CLI, OpenAI’s most recent flagship coding agent, contains what looks like the entire system prompt for GPT-5.5 in a coding context.
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OpenAI’s Symphony spec pushes coding agents from prompts to orchestration

Symphony offers a glimpse of how enterprises may move from using AI as a coding assistant to managing it as part of the software delivery pipeline.
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OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide

OpenAI names Cognizant and CGI as the first SI partners in a Codex enterprise programme as the coding agent hits 3M weekly users.
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Say Goodbye to Syntax: OpenAI Codex Makes Coding as Easy as Talking

What if writing code was as simple as having a conversation? Imagine describing your idea in plain language—no technical jargon, no syntax struggles—and watching it transform into functional, efficient code right before your eyes. This isn’t a ...