About this template
A summary throws the text away. This keeps it.
Point this Codex box at one long source — a URL, a paste, a transcript, a file — and it builds you a reading site for that piece: guided chapters, full-text search, your highlights, your notes, an optional side-by-side bilingual layout, light and dark. Author, title and original link travel with it, so the thing you keep still credits the person who wrote it.
What the immersive reader actually does
Five steps:
- Reads the source and preserves attribution.
- Structures it into chapters and sections you can navigate.
- Builds search, highlighting, and notes over the full text.
- Lays out a bilingual view side by side, if you ask for one.
- Ships a light/dark interface you can open again tomorrow.
The output is a reading space, not a three-bullet digest. That is the whole point of it.
What lands in your fork
A Codex CLI box of your own, with the immersive-reading workflow already installed.
You do not install anything, wire a build, or pick a static-site generator. You say what you want read and the agent does the rest inside the VM, then tells you how to open the generated site.
What you supply
Your OpenAI credentials, set inside the VM as OPENAI_API_KEY. No key ships in the template snapshot — you add yours after the fork.
Bring one long piece you actually care about. This tool rewards depth over volume — a paper you will re-read four times, not forty links you will not open.
Your first five minutes
Fork it, set the key, then say:
/immersive-reading
and pass the URL, the pasted text, the transcript, or the file path. Follow the instructions the session prints to open the generated site. Then highlight one paragraph and leave yourself a note on it — that is the moment the difference from a summarizer stops being theoretical.
Honest limits
- The reading site is a local artifact you open from your own box. There is no hosted URL and no CDN in this template.
- Single reader. No multiplayer, no team auth, no shared annotation layer on day one.
- Codex only. This is not a Hermes or Claude Code fork.
- Model tokens are billed by OpenAI, not by us.
Fork it. Point it at one long essay you keep meaning to finish. 30-day money-back on your first purchase.