Codex Share Card Now Matches Theme and Custom Pet
On June 5, 2026, OpenAI revealed that the profile share card for its AI coding agent "Codex" now automatically matches the appearance theme a user has chosen and also displays any custom pet they have selected. The move adds visual consistency and personalization to the shareable card that summarizes a user's coding activity highlights (update announcement).
The share card lives in the Profile section of the Codex app and lets users share usage statistics in a single image, including lifetime tokens, peak tokens, streaks, longest task and token activity. According to official documentation, sharing such activity insights is available to users on consumer ChatGPT plans (Codex settings documentation). With this update, the card now reflects both the selected theme and the user's custom pet.
The change builds on personalization efforts Codex has pursued over recent months. Around May 2026, a Pets feature was added to display an animated companion on the desktop, offering eight built-in pets plus the ability to generate an original one from an image or description via the "Hatch Pet" skill (Mashable explainer). An app update around June 4 (v26.602) then introduced activity insights and share cards to the Profile section (release notes aggregator). This latest update integrates those elements, weaving the theme and pet into the card to make the GitHub-contribution-graph-style "visualization of coding activity" more distinctive for the AI era.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Shared statistics | lifetime tokens, peak tokens, streaks, longest task, token activity |
| Newly reflected | selected theme + custom pet (including Hatch Pet creations) |
| Availability | users on consumer ChatGPT plans |
| Supported environment | Codex desktop app (macOS/Windows) |
Among developers, the ability to turn weekly Codex usage highlights into a shareable card has been welcomed. Some note that a card showing peak tokens and plugins fits neatly into how they share workflows with peers, while others say that displaying concrete figures such as "3.13 billion tokens, a 220-million peak day, a 21-day streak" makes the volume of collaboration with AI more intuitive than a GitHub contribution graph. Around custom pets, there is active sharing and installation of creations like an American Shorthair cat named "Mimi" within the community, and gallery sites such as PetDex and codexpets.app have also emerged (community post).
Challenges remain, however. On macOS, users have reported bugs such as the Pets overlay being misaligned or interfering with the notification tray (GitHub Issue). In addition, because share card sharing is limited to the paid consumer ChatGPT plans, free users cannot access it. Foregrounding visual cohesion and the fun of community sharing, this update epitomizes the trend of bringing a sense of personal identity into coding-assistance tools.