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This PR configures Codex CLI so it can be built with [Bazel](https://bazel.build) in addition to Cargo. The `.bazelrc` includes configuration so that remote builds can be done using [BuildBuddy](https://www.buildbuddy.io). If you are familiar with Bazel, things should work as you expect, e.g., run `bazel test //... --keep-going` to run all the tests in the repo, but we have also added some new aliases in the `justfile` for convenience: - `just bazel-test` to run tests locally - `just bazel-remote-test` to run tests remotely (currently, the remote build is for x86_64 Linux regardless of your host platform). Note we are currently seeing the following test failures in the remote build, so we still need to figure out what is happening here: ``` failures: suite::compact::manual_compact_twice_preserves_latest_user_messages suite::compact_resume_fork::compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history suite::compact_resume_fork::compact_resume_and_fork_preserve_model_history_view ``` - `just build-for-release` to build release binaries for all platforms/architectures remotely To setup remote execution: - [Create a buildbuddy account](https://app.buildbuddy.io/) (OpenAI employees should also request org access at https://openai.buildbuddy.io/join/ with their `@openai.com` email address.) - [Copy your API key](https://app.buildbuddy.io/docs/setup/) to `~/.bazelrc` (add the line `build --remote_header=x-buildbuddy-api-key=YOUR_KEY`) - Use `--config=remote` in your `bazel` invocations (or add `common --config=remote` to your `~/.bazelrc`, or use the `just` commands) ## CI In terms of CI, this PR introduces `.github/workflows/bazel.yml`, which uses Bazel to run the tests _locally_ on Mac and Linux GitHub runners (we are working on supporting Windows, but that is not ready yet). Note that the failures we are seeing in `just bazel-remote-test` do not occur on these GitHub CI jobs, so everything in `.github/workflows/bazel.yml` is green right now. The `bazel.yml` uses extra config in `.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc` so that macOS CI jobs build _remotely_ on Linux hosts (using the `docker://docker.io/mbolin491/codex-bazel` Docker image declared in the root `BUILD.bazel`) using cross-compilation to build the macOS artifacts. Then these artifacts are downloaded locally to GitHub's macOS runner so the tests can be executed natively. This is the relevant config that enables this: ``` common:macos --config=remote common:macos --strategy=remote common:macos --strategy=TestRunner=darwin-sandbox,local ``` Because of the remote caching benefits we get from BuildBuddy, these new CI jobs can be extremely fast! For example, consider these two jobs that ran all the tests on Linux x86_64: - Bazel 1m37s https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/20861063212/job/59940545209?pr=8875 - Cargo 9m20s https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/20861063192/job/59940559592?pr=8875 For now, we will continue to run both the Bazel and Cargo jobs for PRs, but once we add support for Windows and running Clippy, we should be able to cutover to using Bazel exclusively for PRs, which should still speed things up considerably. We will probably continue to run the Cargo jobs post-merge for commits that land on `main` as a sanity check. Release builds will also continue to be done by Cargo for now. Earlier attempt at this PR: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8832 Earlier attempt to add support for Buck2, now abandoned: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8504 --------- Co-authored-by: David Zbarsky <dzbarsky@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com> |
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Codex CLI (Rust Implementation)
We provide Codex CLI as a standalone, native executable to ensure a zero-dependency install.
Installing Codex
Today, the easiest way to install Codex is via npm:
npm i -g @openai/codex
codex
You can also install via Homebrew (brew install --cask codex) or download a platform-specific release directly from our GitHub Releases.
Documentation quickstart
- First run with Codex? Start with
docs/getting-started.md(links to the walkthrough for prompts, keyboard shortcuts, and session management). - Want deeper control? See
docs/config.mdanddocs/install.md.
What's new in the Rust CLI
The Rust implementation is now the maintained Codex CLI and serves as the default experience. It includes a number of features that the legacy TypeScript CLI never supported.
Config
Codex supports a rich set of configuration options. Note that the Rust CLI uses config.toml instead of config.json. See docs/config.md for details.
Model Context Protocol Support
MCP client
Codex CLI functions as an MCP client that allows the Codex CLI and IDE extension to connect to MCP servers on startup. See the configuration documentation for details.
MCP server (experimental)
Codex can be launched as an MCP server by running codex mcp-server. This allows other MCP clients to use Codex as a tool for another agent.
Use the @modelcontextprotocol/inspector to try it out:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector codex mcp-server
Use codex mcp to add/list/get/remove MCP server launchers defined in config.toml, and codex mcp-server to run the MCP server directly.
Notifications
You can enable notifications by configuring a script that is run whenever the agent finishes a turn. The notify documentation includes a detailed example that explains how to get desktop notifications via terminal-notifier on macOS. When Codex detects that it is running under WSL 2 inside Windows Terminal (WT_SESSION is set), the TUI automatically falls back to native Windows toast notifications so approval prompts and completed turns surface even though Windows Terminal does not implement OSC 9.
codex exec to run Codex programmatically/non-interactively
To run Codex non-interactively, run codex exec PROMPT (you can also pass the prompt via stdin) and Codex will work on your task until it decides that it is done and exits. Output is printed to the terminal directly. You can set the RUST_LOG environment variable to see more about what's going on.
Experimenting with the Codex Sandbox
To test to see what happens when a command is run under the sandbox provided by Codex, we provide the following subcommands in Codex CLI:
# macOS
codex sandbox macos [--full-auto] [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
# Linux
codex sandbox linux [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
# Windows
codex sandbox windows [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
# Legacy aliases
codex debug seatbelt [--full-auto] [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
codex debug landlock [--full-auto] [COMMAND]...
Selecting a sandbox policy via --sandbox
The Rust CLI exposes a dedicated --sandbox (-s) flag that lets you pick the sandbox policy without having to reach for the generic -c/--config option:
# Run Codex with the default, read-only sandbox
codex --sandbox read-only
# Allow the agent to write within the current workspace while still blocking network access
codex --sandbox workspace-write
# Danger! Disable sandboxing entirely (only do this if you are already running in a container or other isolated env)
codex --sandbox danger-full-access
The same setting can be persisted in ~/.codex/config.toml via the top-level sandbox_mode = "MODE" key, e.g. sandbox_mode = "workspace-write".
Code Organization
This folder is the root of a Cargo workspace. It contains quite a bit of experimental code, but here are the key crates:
core/contains the business logic for Codex. Ultimately, we hope this to be a library crate that is generally useful for building other Rust/native applications that use Codex.exec/"headless" CLI for use in automation.tui/CLI that launches a fullscreen TUI built with Ratatui.cli/CLI multitool that provides the aforementioned CLIs via subcommands.