I bought exploreda.dev and asked the desktop agent to connect it to the project's GitHub Pages site. Namecheap and the GitHub repository were already open in Chrome.
The request was short: “Wire it up so that my new domain points to the GitHub page.”
This session ran in the Codex desktop app. If you think of ChatGPT as a place to ask for instructions, this is a concrete example of what an OpenAI desktop agent can do with browser and terminal access.
It changed the Namecheap records, set the custom domain in GitHub Pages, and handled a detail that DNS instructions alone would miss. The demo expected to live under /explorEDA/. On the new domain, it needed to load from /. That affected both the built scripts and the sample datasets.
The agent changed those paths, ran pnpm check, and created and merged a small pull request. It then checked the deployment and waited for GitHub to issue the certificate. Once the certificate was available, it enabled HTTPS.
The final checks went beyond a successful settings save. The domain returned the deployed page, www.exploreda.dev redirected to the root domain, and the penguin example opened in Chrome with all 344 rows.
The useful part was carrying the task across the browser, repository, deployment, and certificate state. I supplied the desired result and the open pages. The agent followed through until the site worked.
This used an existing signed-in browser session and an existing GitHub Pages deployment. Those were the starting conditions for this example.