{
  "id": 4923858,
  "title": "Codex bundles LibreOffice",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/codex-bundles-libreoffice",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-01T19:03:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler , git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}