According to OpenAI on X, Codex Security—an application security agent—has entered research preview, aimed at helping developers detect and remediate code and dependency risks in real time (source: OpenAI post; original details: OpenAI blog). According to the OpenAI blog, the agent integrates with developer workflows to analyze codebases, surface vulnerabilities, and suggest fixes, targeting use cases like secure code review, secrets detection, and third‑party package risk assessment. As reported by OpenAI, early capabilities focus on static analysis augmentation and policy-aware remediation guidance, positioning Codex Security as a co-pilot for AppSec teams to reduce mean time to remediation and shift-left security in CI pipelines. According to OpenAI, the research preview invites security and engineering teams to test integrations and provide feedback on accuracy, latency, and safe deployment, signaling new opportunities for vendors to build agentic security tooling and for enterprises to automate compliance checks and vulnerability triage.