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How to create a product tour with ChatGPT Codex without a developer

A guided walkthrough with ChatGPT Codex in about twenty minutes: install one line, click through your own interface in the visual editor, and publish a tour that starts where new users need it.

Time
● 20 minutes
Price
Free plan
Who does it
You and Codex

Example: a product tour with ChatGPT Codex

A project-management board whose repository is maintained with ChatGPT Codex. On /board a 4-step tour shows columns, dragging a card, assignees and due dates.

Free on the Clew Free plan — no card, no time limit: one site and up to 3 published tours or tooltips. Audience rules and A/B tests come with Pro.

How to build the product tour with ChatGPT Codex, step by step

  1. Step 01

    Copy your Clew snippet

    Create a free account (or sign in), add your site and open Admin → Overview. Click the line in the “No signal from the widget yet.” card to copy it — it carries your real site key instead of the placeholder.

    <!-- Clew: replace PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY with the site key from Admin > Overview -->
    <script src="https://tryclew.io/widget/PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY.js" async></script>
    Clew admin Overview with the embed line and a masked site key (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 1 · schematic illustration
  2. Step 02

    Connect the repository to Codex

    In ChatGPT open Codex and connect the GitHub repository of your app (or run the Codex CLI in the project folder). A regular ChatGPT chat or canvas only shows code — it doesn’t change your repository.

    An AI coding agent workspace connected to a repository (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 2 · schematic illustration
  3. Step 03

    Start a task with the prompt

    Replace PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY with your key and start a Codex task with the prompt below.

    Add the Clew onboarding widget to this app.
    
    Insert this exact tag once so it loads on every page, including after client-side route changes:
    <script src="https://tryclew.io/widget/PASTE_YOUR_SITE_KEY.js" async></script>
    
    Find the root HTML file or root layout of this repository (index.html for Vite, app/layout.tsx with next/script for Next.js App Router, nuxt.config.ts app.head.script for Nuxt, the base template for server-rendered apps) and add the tag there.
    
    Also add stable data-tour attributes to the elements a product tour will point at: the main navigation, the primary create/add button, the main filter or search, and the page heading — for example data-tour="create-button". Do not change their styles, text or behaviour.
    
    Rules:
    - Use the script URL exactly as given. Do not download it, bundle it or install an npm package.
    - If the project sets a Content-Security-Policy, allow https://tryclew.io in script-src and connect-src.
    - Change nothing else and show me the diff.
    AI task input with the Clew prompt (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 3 · schematic illustration
  4. Step 04

    Review the pull request and merge

    Codex returns the change as a diff you can open as a pull request. Check that it touches the root file and the small additions only, merge, and let your hosting deploy.

    Pull request diff with one script line added (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 4 · schematic illustration
  5. Step 05

    Build the tour on top of your page

    In Clew open Flows → + New flow, keep Format at Step-by-step tooltips and press Edit on your site. On your page press Pick element and click the element for step 1, then write a title and one or two sentences. Repeat for 3–5 steps; the preview updates as you type.

    A product tour tooltip pointing at a button in a web app, with step dots and a Next button (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 5 · schematic illustration
  6. Step 06

    Choose where, when and for whom it shows

    In the same editor, set Where to show (page URL), When to show, Audience targeting and Frequency. These are the settings of the example above:

    SettingValue
    FormatStep-by-step tooltips
    Where to show (page URL)Section by prefix /board
    When to showRight on page load
    Audience targetingNo rules — everyone who opens the page
    FrequencyOnce per visitor
    Clew tour editor with the format, page URL rule, trigger and audience rule fields (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 6 · schematic illustration
  7. Step 07

    Publish and check it on the live site

    Set Status to Published and save. Open the page in a private window — Clew remembers who has already seen a “once” item, so your usual browser may skip it. Views, completions and drop-offs appear in the tour stats.

    Clew admin Overview with the green “Widget is live” card (product tour with ChatGPT Codex)
    Step 7 · schematic illustration

Pitfalls: product tour with ChatGPT Codex

Nothing changes until the PR is merged

Codex works in a cloud copy of the repository. Until you merge and deploy, the product tour can’t appear on your site.

Canvas code is a draft

If you paste code from a ChatGPT chat by hand, you are the developer: check the file and the placement yourself, or use Codex so the change is reviewed as a diff.

Generated class names change on every rebuild

AI-built apps often use utility classes or hashed CSS modules. A selector like .bg-blue-600.px-4 breaks after the next prompt. That’s why the prompt above asks for data-tour attributes: pick those elements and the tour survives regenerations.

Questions and answers

Do I need a new Codex task for each tour change?

No. Codex adds the line and attributes once; tour changes are made in Clew.

Can I do it in the ChatGPT app without Codex?

Only if you paste the result into your code yourself. Codex is the part of ChatGPT that edits a real repository.

Is the product tour free?

Yes — tours are on the Free plan with up to 3 published. You only need Pro for audience rules, A/B tests and more tours.

Can’t I just ask the AI to build the tour?

You can, but then every text change is a new prompt, a new diff and a new deploy, and you get no stats. With Clew the AI adds one line and a few attributes once; the tour itself is edited in minutes by anyone on the team.

One line on your site — then tours, tooltips and checklists without releases.

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