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bossMAN is a macOS workflow tool for managing Codex-assisted game-dev and software projects. Automate and track project development in an easy to navigate and customizable UI. Requires separate Codex CLI/OpenAI setup.

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Crush your workload

A control room for Codex-assisted development

bossMAN is a macOS desktop workflow tool for developers who use OpenAI's Codex and want a cleaner way to manage and automate local project work.

For game developers, bossMAN can help keep game projects, tooling repos, build notes, implementation plans, and review passes from turning into scattered one-off chat sessions.

Why bossMAN?

  • Highly customizable UI for your Codex projects to increase efficiency and tune aesthetics.

  • Assign avatars and voicepack audio playback to your projects' activity to enhance multitasking and identity.

  • Tracker system used to streamline and simplify longterm development of a project itemizing both scoped work and bugs items

  • Tracker Automation helps process queued Tracker items through user-configured rules, visible logs, and approval gates for sensitive actions.

  • Manage local game-dev and software projects locally and via SSH.

Built for developers using Codex

bossMAN is designed for people who already use, or plan to use, OpenAI's Codex.

Important requirement: bossMAN requires a separately installed and authenticated Codex CLI app. The Steam purchase includes the bossMAN desktop application only.

It does not include ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, OpenAI API access, AI usage credits, local LLM runtimes, downloadable model weights, or third-party service subscriptions.

To use Codex-based workflows, you must install Codex CLI separately and sign in with your own eligible ChatGPT/OpenAI account. Codex availability, plan requirements, rate limits, pricing, and account terms are controlled by OpenAI and may change independently of bossMAN.

bossMAN will never ask for or store your ChatGPT password, OpenAI account password, Steam password, payment card information, or third-party service credentials. Authentication must happen through the supported backend's own official authentication flow or through a user-configured local endpoint/API-key flow where applicable.

AI output and automation notice

bossMAN may display, organize, summarize, route, and, under user-configured permissions, help apply AI-generated development output from user-configured backends such as Codex.

AI-generated plans, summaries, code, commands, reviews, and project recommendations may be incomplete, incorrect, unsafe, unsuitable for your project, or incompatible with your licenses and obligations. Review all AI-generated output before using, applying, committing, shipping, or publishing it.

bossMAN is intended for software-development workflow management. Project automation is designed around user-selected project folders, visible activity logs, and approval gates for sensitive actions such as command execution, file modification, file deletion, dependency installation, repository-wide edits, SSH/local machine access, or access to credential-like files.

Do not grant bossMAN, Codex, or any connected AI backend access to projects, systems, credentials, or repositories unless you are authorized to do so and understand the risks of AI-assisted automation.

Independence notice

bossMAN is an independently developed desktop workflow tool distributed through Steam. It is not developed by, endorsed by, sponsored by, certified by, or officially supported by OpenAI, Valve, or Steam.

OpenAI, ChatGPT, Codex, Valve, and Steam are separate third-party products, services, and/or trademarks governed by their own terms, availability, pricing, usage limits, account rules, and support policies.

References to Codex, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Steam, or Valve are used only to describe compatibility, platform availability, or required third-party setup.