OpenAI on April 28 said it had unveiled Symphony, an open-source specification that connects Codex agents so they can pull and handle development tasks registered in work management tools such as Jira and Linear.
The company said Symphony supports a workflow in which, instead of engineers asking AI tools coding questions one at a time, agents pull tasks directly from issue trackers, execute them in separate workspaces, monitor CI (Continuous Integration) and prepare changes for human review.
OpenAI said it developed Symphony after taking into account that engineers were facing bottlenecks as they began running multiple Codex sessions at the same time.
OpenAI said some internal teams saw the number of merged pull requests increase 500 percent in three weeks after adopting Symphony. "The economics of code changes have completely changed as engineers no longer spend time supervising Codex sessions," the company said. "The cost per change has fallen," it said.
Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)
delight@d-today.co.kr