{"slug": "openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents", "title": "OpenAI Launches a Keypad for AI Agents", "summary": "OpenAI launched a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro, a physical shortcut controller for its AI coding agents, developed in collaboration with Work Louder. The $230 device features customizable keys, a rotary knob, and a joystick, and is available only while supplies last.", "body_md": "OpenAI's first hardware device is a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro that lets users monitor and control AI coding agents. Axios reports: Codex Micro is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware company known for customizable mechanical keyboards and shortcut controllers for developers and designers. The small, square macro pad -- with backlit keys, a rotary knob and a tiny joystick -- sits beside your regular keyboard as a physical shortcut box for common Codex actions and shows the status of your agents. The keys are customizable and include a push-to-talk option as well as a dial to adjust your reasoning setting. Codex Micro is a niche device for Codex power users and will only be available until it sells out. It's priced at $230.[Read more of this story](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/15/1659217/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/15/1659217/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-07-15 17:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 17:09:01.753474+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex Micro", "Work Louder", "Axios"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents.jsonld"}}