Qodo builds AI tools for code review and software quality, giving coding agents organizational knowledge to understand the code they change. Co-founder and CEO Itamar Friedman calls it "the coding agent's best friend." Qodo uses Open AI models including GPT‑6 Astra to gather engineering knowledge, review code, and monitor software quality. Its Codex plugin brings that context and review into developers' coding sessions.
Itamar describes customer environments that can span 10,000 or more repositories, where a local code change can break a downstream service. Qodo built a plugin in the Codex marketplace to address this. Codex is really good at taking a local task and completing it efficiently.
Qodo's plugin gives Codex access to codebase knowledge, organizational rules, and independent review through Qodo's Agentic Toolbox. With context, Codex can account for dependencies across repositories, including those hosted by different Git providers or services connected through Kafka. Before Codex starts writing code, it can use Qodo's plugin to retrieve relevant codebase rules and pull request history and patterns.
After Codex makes changes, Qodo reviews them and returns findings directly to Codex in the same session, before the developer opens a pull request. Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo's AI Developer Relations Lead, sees developers using this workflow to build features and tackle technical debt with GPT‑6 models in Codex. Itamar describes coding and review agents as "yin and yang": one creates code, the other challenges it.
Each role needs its own setup and context and may involve multiple agents. His vision is for agents to discuss findings and surface only what they don't accept for human review. Developers would become planners and reviewers, able to inspect unresolved issues alongside the agents' discussion, context, and prior developer decisions.
Internally at Qodo, Nnenna has been using GPT‑6 Astra's Extra High and Ultra effort settings in her own automated development workflows. Itamar sees an opportunity to use Open AI's recently launched Decisions API to choose which rules and agent skills apply at each stage of development.
Source: OpenAI Blog · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing