If you want to point Codex or any other AI to a specific file anywhere on your Mac, select the file and press Cmd + Option + C.
This copies the file path to your clipboard. Paste that path into your Codex prompt, and Codex can find the file directly.
It is faster and clearer than dragging in screenshots or trying to describe where something lives in words.
This is useful when you want to:
- Share a folder of media files, plus another folder where those files should be moved.
- Add a local file to a brief or task description you are writing for Codex.
- Give Codex quick context from a spec, log, screenshot, spreadsheet, config file, reference, or older draft.
- Point Codex to design source files, exports, videos, audio, or assets outside the project folder.
- Share a requirements document without pasting a long brief into chat.
- Select several files, copy all their paths at once, and paste them into Codex with a short note. For example: take screenshots of bugs in an app, move them to your laptop, select all screenshots, copy their paths, then paste them into Codex with the bug descriptions.
Tiny shortcut. But every time I use it, it feels weirdly satisfying (:
