Codex Gets Computer Use in the EU - and a Clean Claude Code Import

Last updated: June 17, 2026

OpenAI shipped two Codex updates in the same week of June 2026, and together they tell you where the agentic coding tool is heading: out of the terminal and onto the desktop, and explicitly onto the turf of competing CLIs. On June 16 the Codex app gained Computer Use in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland. The day before, Codex CLI 0.140.0 added a way to import your Claude Code setup. Neither is a new model. Both are about reach.

This post sticks to what shipped, with every claim checked against the official Codex changelog.

Computer Use lands in Europe

The headline for June 16 is regional availability. From the changelog: "Computer Use is available on macOS and Windows in these regions," letting Codex "operate desktop apps by seeing, clicking, and typing" (verified June 17, 2026, developers.openai.com/codex/changelog). "These regions" means the EEA, UK, and Switzerland - markets that often trail US rollouts for agentic features because of regulatory review, so this is a real expansion rather than a new capability invented this week.

Three more app features landed in the same regions on the same date:

• A Codex Chrome extension for browser tasks, able to operate across tabs.
• Memories, which "can remember useful preferences." The changelog notes Memories are "off by default" in these regions - a privacy-conscious default that matches the European regulatory context.
• Chronicle, available "as an opt-in research preview" for ChatGPT Pro subscribers on macOS.

The pattern here is consistent: desktop control, browser control, and persistent context, all gated behind opt-in toggles. If you build for European users or work inside an EU org that blocked Codex on availability grounds, this is the update that changes your options.

The Claude Code import is the quiet story

The more interesting line for working developers shipped a day earlier, in Codex CLI 0.140.0 on June 15. The changelog describes a new /import command "for selectively importing setup, project configuration, and recent chats from Claude Code" (verified June 17, 2026, developers.openai.com/codex/changelog).

The word that matters is selectively. This is not a one-shot "convert my whole config" button. It lets you pull in setup, project configuration, and recent chats as discrete pieces, which is the honest way to migrate: most of a Claude Code setup is portable, some of it is tool-specific, and a blanket import would drag the latter along. For anyone running both tools - a common setup in 2026, given how many teams keep more than one agentic CLI installed - this lowers the switching cost without pretending the two tools are identical.

It also signals intent. OpenAI is not waiting for users to manually rebuild their workflow in Codex; it is meeting them where their config already lives.

The rest of 0.140.0

The same release rounded out the CLI with several quality-of-life and enterprise items, all per the changelog (verified June 17, 2026, developers.openai.com/codex/changelog):

• /usage views for "daily, weekly, and cumulative account token activity." Token visibility inside the CLI is a recurring ask, and it lands here.
• Managed Amazon Bedrock API-key authentication with "encrypted local storage" - the kind of line that matters to AWS-centric teams running Codex against Bedrock-hosted models.
• A unified @ mentions menu: "Typing @ now opens the unified mentions menu for files, plugins, and skills by default."
• Permanent session deletion through codex delete and /delete, shipped "with confirmation safeguards."

None of these is flashy on its own. Stacked together, they are the maintenance work of a tool that expects to be used daily in production, not demoed once.

What this is - and what it is not

It is worth being precise about scope, because mid-cycle changelog drops get over-read.

This is not a new Codex model, and nothing here changes coding quality or benchmark numbers. The June 15-16 updates are availability and tooling: a desktop and browser capability reaching new regions, plus CLI ergonomics and an import path. The Computer Use, Chrome extension, Memories, and Chronicle items are the app's existing features arriving in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, not brand-new functionality - which is exactly why the changelog frames them as "available in these regions."

If you were waiting on Computer Use in Europe, this unblocks you. If you run Codex and Claude Code side by side, /import is the practical win. And if you manage an AWS estate, the managed Bedrock auth line is the one to flag to your platform team.

The takeaway

The interesting move in this drop is not any single feature - it is the direction. Codex is pushing into the desktop and browser, expanding into regulated markets with privacy-first defaults, and actively lowering the cost of moving over from a competing CLI. For a tool that started as a terminal agent, that is a deliberate widening of the surface area.

For deeper background on the tool itself, see our OpenAI Codex guide. For the broader CLI comparison, Anthropic vs OpenAI developer experience covers how the two ecosystems differ in practice.

---

Sources: OpenAI Codex changelog (verified June 17, 2026).