{"slug": "codex-bundles-libreoffice", "title": "Codex bundles LibreOffice", "summary": "OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as ChatGPT, bundles a 1.7GB runtime that includes full Python and Node.js installations, native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite, according to a blog post by Simon Willison. The runtime, located in the `codex-primary-runtime` folder, includes skills that enable Codex to use these tools for document processing.", "body_md": "I was poking around in my `~/.cache/`\n\nfolder using [OmniDiskSweeper](https://www.omnigroup.com/more) when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since [rebranded](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001276-moving-to-the-new-chatgpt-desktop-app) to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called `codex-primary-runtime`\n\n, including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for [Poppler](https://poppler.freedesktop.org), git, and the [LibreOffice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice) open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010):\n\nThe `~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents`\n\nfolder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those binaries.\n\nTags: [codex](https://simonwillison.net/tags/codex), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [openai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [openoffice](https://simonwillison.net/tags/openoffice), [open-source](https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codex-bundles-libreoffice", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/", "published_at": "2026-09-01 19:03:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 19:23:00.405591+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex", "ChatGPT", "LibreOffice", "Poppler", "Simon Willison"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codex-bundles-libreoffice", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codex-bundles-libreoffice.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codex-bundles-libreoffice.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codex-bundles-libreoffice.jsonld"}}