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AgentHop tool lets developers switch OpenAI Codex profiles without repeated logins

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A developer built AgentHop to solve the friction of managing multiple OpenAI Codex profiles across personal, client, and experimental workspaces. Previously, switching contexts required logging out, reconfiguring the environment, and re-authenticating each time, disrupting workflow. AgentHop provides a CLI-based dashboard that displays each profile's current status — ready, close, or blocked — along with reset times, so users can assess availability at a glance. The tool also runs as a Linux system tray application, allowing one-click profile switching without opening a full dashboard. During development, the author discovered that switching profiles could also change visible session history, since Codex stores both account identity and session state in the same local directory.

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