OpenAI said today it plans to acquire Pierre, the company behind Code Storage, to expand the tools developers and coding agents use within Codex. OpenAI says customers will be able to keep using Code Storage after the deal closes as it works to incorporate the service’s capabilities into Codex. The purchase still requires regulatory approvals and other closing conditions to be met, with neither company becoming part of the other before closing.
Parts of Pierre’s technology are already in the Codex app: its Trees and Diffs libraries power file browsing and the inspection of code changes. The planned acquisition would bring the team behind those existing components into OpenAI, while integrating Code Storage remains a future project. OpenAI also committed to keeping Pierre’s open-source projects open-source and continuing contributions to them after the acquisition.
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Code Storage gives applications a way to hold code and preserve a history of changes through Git. OpenAI says it wants to develop Git workflows with Pierre for teams working alongside coding agents, drawing on its own experience with engineering tasks happening in parallel. Its broader goal for Codex is to connect the software a company delivers with the human decisions behind it.
Pierre’s review tools cover both finding a change and acting on it: Trees helps developers move through project files, while Diffs shows the changes themselves. Diffs’ Edit mode allows someone reviewing code to correct a line at the point where they find a problem. Pierre also recently introduced Highlights, which refreshes syntax highlighting while a developer types or an agent produces code.
OpenAI says its work with the Pierre team will include developing additional products and platforms after the acquisition. Earlier this week, OpenAI described Pando, its internal source control backend serving both engineers and agents, as part of its work on scaling Git. Separately, on November 2, OpenAI detailed how Qodo brings organizational knowledge and coding rules into Codex to help developers identify P0 issues spanning repositories before they open a pull request.
