Codex runs builds and tests over SSH on remote Windows VMs
At a glance
A developer whose employer issues a Mac plus remote Windows VMs gives coding agents SSH into WSL on those VMs so builds and tests run off the laptop—stopping background agents from killing video streams in meetings. This workflow is listed under Codex, CI, Remote-Dev, Windows, WSL.
CircleCI's Chunk sidecars run scoped microbuilds in Firecracker/E2B microVMs that mirror CI, hooking agent stop/eval events so Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor changes are validated before commit—~27s microbuilds and 3–5× lower token burn on retries in their tests.
Kelos orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or OpenCode in ephemeral Kubernetes pods as CRDs—watching bug issues, drafting fix PRs, self-reviewing, and retrying when CI fails—while the author still does final review and merge.
A developer leaves Codex CLI running for hours to add debug prints and test hypotheses against a deterministic front-door unit test until it can explain the bug with evidence.
A developer routed Grok Bot through their ChatGPT Pro subscription after hitting cloud-agent limits, calling remote Codex environments clunkier than Cursor but workable.