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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 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.