OpenAI 在 Codex Micro 中隐藏了 Asteroids、Snake 和 Brick Breaker
OpenAI 的 230 美元控制器将最近的 assistant 消息变成三个未文档化游戏中的小行星、砖块和食物。
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop
Original reporting by RuntimeWire, based on reverse engineering.
为何重要
这些游戏将当前的 AI 输出转化为界面素材，使每一关都针对用户的对话而特别定制。它是一个小而具体的例子，展示了软件在围绕生成内容重构自身的同时，如何保留 Work Louder 玩味十足的硬件设计。
Reporting record
Finding
OpenAI’s Codex desktop client ships three undocumented mini-games—Asteroids, Snake, and Brick Breaker—built to appear inside the composer after a rapid circular gesture on the Codex Micro joystick.
How we verified
Methods: reverse engineering.
RuntimeWire found production modules explicitly named codex-micro-mini-games and codex-micro-mini-game-composer inside the Codex desktop client. The code enumerates three games: asteroids, brick-breaker, and snake.
The activation path watches the Codex Micro joystick for roughly two rotations within six seconds, then selects a game and associates it with the active composer. Separate rendering code implements each game’s rules, scoring, animation, and controls.
RuntimeWire then modified a laboratory copy of the client to replace the hardware gesture with a keyboard shortcut. The patched client successfully rendered Brick Breaker inside the composer. The game transformed the composer’s “What should we work on?” text into destructible blocks and displayed a working ball, paddle, score, and multiplier.
The patch changed feature activation and input handling. It did not create the games or replace their native rendering, level-generation, scoring, or physics code.
RuntimeWire found production modules explicitly named codex-micro-mini-games and codex-micro-mini-game-composer inside the Codex desktop client. The code enumerates three games: asteroids, brick-breaker, and snake.
The activation path watches the Codex Micro joystick for roughly two rotations within six seconds, then selects a game and associates it with the active composer. Separate rendering code implements each game’s rules, scoring, animation, and controls.
RuntimeWire then modified a laboratory copy of the client to replace the hardware gesture with a keyboard shortcut. The patched client successfully rendered Brick Breaker inside the composer. The game transformed the composer’s “What should we work on?” text into destructible blocks and displayed a working ball, paddle, score, and multiplier.
The patch changed feature activation and input handling. It did not create the games or replace their native rendering, level-generation, scoring, or physics code.
Tested versions:
- Windows package: 26.820.7780.0 Internal Electron application: 26.818.61809 Platform: Windows x6
Reproduction
RuntimeWire partially reproduced the finding.
Work from a copy of the matching app.asar; do not modify the Store installation.
Verify the source archive’s SHA-256 hash.
Force feature flag 3207467860.
Replace the joystick-triggered state transition with a keyboard handler that writes the same { composerId, game } object used by the production bridge.
Launch the copied client with an isolated user-data directory.
Trigger the replacement shortcut.
Cycle through brick-breaker, asteroids, and snake.
Compare the resulting behavior with the untouched rendering and game-logic modules.
File hashes
sha256:5DF8BF5A9D30742919390AB11FA419E83AAB0891152569A42C6EA4ABF15386C2 app.asar
Company response
The company was not contacted before publication.
OpenAI 在 Work Louder 的 Codex Micro 软件中留下了一个包含三款游戏的街机。出货的 Windows 客户端代码指出，在六秒内将控制器的摇杆大约绕圈 1.9 周，会随机启动 Asteroids、Brick Breaker 或 Snake，并使用最近的助手消息来提供陨石、砖块和食物。
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