Chronicle

OpenAI has introduced Chronicle, an opt-in research preview for macOS that captures user screens to provide contextual information to its Codex agent. The feature, which echoes Microsoft's controversial Recall, stores screenshots for six hours and sends data to OpenAI servers to generate persistent text-based memories.

OpenAI's Codex desktop app for Mac has added Chronicle, a feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI's servers for OCR and visual analysis, then stores text summaries as unencrypted Markdown files locally. The feature requires a $100+/month ChatGPT Pro subscription and is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland.

OpenAI released Chronicle for Codex on Mac, a feature that captures screen content to build contextual memories for the AI coding assistant. Available to Pro subscribers as a research preview, Chronicle runs background agents that generate memories from screen captures stored temporarily on device.