Codex
This is not marketing.It is the system describing itself.
A working specification of a general-purpose, decentrally-owned intelligence — multi-modal, embodied, continually learning, and operated by an open network of validators. No single section is sufficient on its own; the whole forms an interlocking surface.
What this document is not
The system is partial.The document says so first.
It describes what the system must become, and the mechanisms by which it becomes that. Everything not yet built is named as such rather than implied into existence.
- An advertisement.
- A roadmap for a single model.
- A description of a finished system.
Eight parts, in reading order.The whole forms an interlocking surface.
28 chapters. Most readers should not start with the protocol — it exists to serve the cognition and embodiment surfaces, and read out of order it obscures why it is shaped the way it is.
Prologue
What OGI is, what general intelligence means here, and the design principles that constrain the rest.
ICognition
The abstract surfaces: language, vision, multimodal fusion, reasoning, memory, world models.
IIEmbodiment
How cognition is grounded in bodies: VLA architecture, manipulation, locomotion, multi-embodiment.
IIILearning
How the system improves: pretraining, reinforcement and self-play, continual learning, alignment.
IVNetwork
The decentralized substrate: validators, data layer, settlement.
VProtocol
The token, governance, treasury mechanics.
VIRoadmap
Phases, and what unlocks them.
Appendices
The manifesto, the glossary, the theoretical foundations.
Status
Codex version 0.3. Ratification pending. The canonical mirror is the repository, not this page.