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Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a0, a tool he built using Codex and GPT-6 Astra Extra High while working on a project from his phone via Codex Remote, after wanting to edit a credentials file without passing the credentials through an LLM.

Why it matters: The tool was created to edit files such as credentials without sending their contents through a language model.

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“Release: web-edit 0.1a0 I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself. So...”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 12 Oct 2026, 15:54.

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