How to Create a Draft PR with OpenAI's Codex (Web)
Date: 2025-11-08 | artificial-intelligence | codex | create |
I've been playing around with AI for building software the past few months. While I believe that vibe engineering > vibe coding, I still think there's a place for agentic coding workflows.
Vanta has been very supportive in letting us try out new AI tools and I've been playing around with Codex Cloud - Open AI's web-based coding agent - for putting up small adhoc fixes and refactors.
A problem I've run into is that the default Create PR button creates an Open PR which immediately tags teams for review. This is NOT what I want as it's typically a half-baked solution that I'm trying to iterate on, not smth that I want to waste someone else's time with. As a reminder, you should always review your AI's code.
So as a note to future me, you can create a draft PR with Codex by clicking the little drop down arrow next to Create PR and select Create draft PR. This will send the code up to GitHub where it can run in CI and give you time to review / refine it BEFORE another human looks at it.
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