Every chat in ChatGPT can see all your other chats. Ask one to find a lost conversation and it searches the rest. Tell it to send work into another chat, and the work appears there with a label naming the chat that sent it. The sidebar keeps chats separate for your benefit; the agent underneath, Codex, treats the whole account as one workspace. This guide is a snapshot of that workspace as of early August 2026, drawn from a walkthrough by Matthew Berman.
01Find and delegate by asking
Berman loses a chat the way everyone does: he knows a poem got written somewhere, but the conversation has sunk down the sidebar. Instead of scrolling, he asks the chat he has open: “which of my recent chats was about a poem?” It returns the two matches. He says “link me” and the right one opens.
Then he sends work into it: “in that chat, write a 50-word poem.” The poem appears in the other chat, labeled “sent by Codex from another chat”. One chat just gave work to another, and the label shows who asked.
“think of ChatGPT as one giant singular system”
Matthew Berman, “Master Codex with these 15 Tips” · 15:19That is the mental model. Chats are folders you sort your thinking into, and the agent can read, summarize, or continue any of them from whichever chat you are in. When two chats reach conflicting conclusions, you can ask a third to compare them. When the work in one chat wraps up, you can ask any other chat what that one concluded.
For the chats your own eyes need daily, pinning still helps: right-click a chat and choose pin, and it stays at the top of the sidebar instead of sinking.
02Run your chats by voice
ChatGPT’s voice mode controls the same workspace. Press the microphone button, ask for a new chat that writes a 100-word poem, and one appears in the sidebar and starts working while you keep talking. Berman runs all his agents this way when his hands are busy: start work, check on other chats, send follow-ups, all spoken.
Voice makes the one-workspace habit cheap: delegating to another chat becomes a sentence you say, not a tab you find.
03Hand the result to anyone
A result trapped inside a chat is only useful to you. ChatGPT Sites turns almost any result (a spreadsheet, a slide deck, a portfolio, a page of text) into a web page: say “publish this”, and it builds and hosts the page. It starts private; say “make it public” and you get a URL anyone can open.
The URL is also a handoff between agents. Paste it into a different agent’s chat, in ChatGPT or anywhere else, and that agent can read whatever the page holds. One chat’s finished work becomes another agent’s input without copying anything by hand.
What you delegate can be real work, because Codex can use a browser and control your computer on your behalf:
“Codex can literally browse the internet on your behalf”
Matthew Berman, “Master Codex with these 15 Tips” · 0:24In the walkthrough, one prompt sends it shopping: research cameras comparable to his current one. Nine minutes later a spreadsheet comes back with options, prices, the price difference against his current camera, and ratings. He has used the same ability to request refunds, negotiate with customer service, and archive email he never needed to see. Hand that much of your accounts to an agent gradually: Delegate to your agent in stages covers how to decide what access it has earned.
04The same workspace anywhere
The workspace stops being tied to one machine. Three ways to run it:
- Local. The ChatGPT app on your computer; agents work on your machine.
- Cloud. Your project lives in a hosted environment and agents run there. Useful for running many agents at once without slowing your own computer.
- Connections. Your phone controls your desktop from anywhere. In settings, allow connections, scan the QR code with your phone, and a remote tab appears in the phone app with every chat from your desktop. Berman codes from anywhere this way.
Connections is the one people miss. Pairing takes a minute, and afterward the chat you started at your desk is the chat you check from the couch, with nothing synced by hand.
05One quota pays for all of it
Every chat you run draws from the same weekly quota, and a workspace full of delegating chats drains it faster than a single conversation would. The walkthrough’s habits for staying inside the quota are lessons this catalogue already teaches:
- Route light tasks to a small model and save the big one for hard work: Recheck your model choices each release and Stop hitting your token limit.
- Put recurring work on a schedule instead of re-asking: Automate a workflow as a Claude routine.
- Let a long run continue until a stated goal is met, with limits: Loop the agent until the work passes.
- Turn a workflow you repeat into a saved skill you invoke by name: Expertise you can install.
To see where you stand, click your name, then your usage percentage: it shows how much quota remains and the reset date. ChatGPT also hands out bonus quota resets, called banked resets. They carry an expiration date, so check for them and use them in time.
Further reading
- Matthew Berman · Master Codex with these 15 Tips, the walkthrough this guide draws on