core-agent-ide/codex-rs
Michael Bolin e79549f039
feat: add debug landlock subcommand comparable to debug seatbelt (#715)
This PR adds a `debug landlock` subcommand to the Codex CLI for testing
how Codex would execute a command using the specified sandbox policy.

Built and ran this code in the `rust:latest` Docker container. In the
container, hitting the network with vanilla `curl` succeeds:

```
$ curl google.com
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
```

whereas this fails, as expected:

```
$ cargo run -- debug landlock -s network-restricted -- curl google.com
curl: (6) getaddrinfo() thread failed to start
```
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ansi-escape feat: initial import of Rust implementation of Codex CLI in codex-rs/ (#629) 2025-04-24 13:31:40 -07:00
apply-patch fix: handling weird unicode characters in apply_patch (#674) 2025-04-25 16:01:58 -07:00
cli feat: add debug landlock subcommand comparable to debug seatbelt (#715) 2025-04-28 16:37:05 -07:00
core feat: add debug landlock subcommand comparable to debug seatbelt (#715) 2025-04-28 16:37:05 -07:00
docs feat: initial import of Rust implementation of Codex CLI in codex-rs/ (#629) 2025-04-24 13:31:40 -07:00
exec feat: make it possible to set disable_response_storage = true in config.toml (#714) 2025-04-28 15:39:34 -07:00
execpolicy fix: small fixes so Codex compiles on Windows (#673) 2025-04-25 15:58:44 -07:00
repl feat: make it possible to set disable_response_storage = true in config.toml (#714) 2025-04-28 15:39:34 -07:00
tui feat: make it possible to set disable_response_storage = true in config.toml (#714) 2025-04-28 15:39:34 -07:00
.gitignore feat: initial import of Rust implementation of Codex CLI in codex-rs/ (#629) 2025-04-24 13:31:40 -07:00
Cargo.lock fix: make the TUI the default/"interactive" CLI in Rust (#711) 2025-04-28 13:46:22 -07:00
Cargo.toml fix: make the TUI the default/"interactive" CLI in Rust (#711) 2025-04-28 13:46:22 -07:00
justfile feat: initial import of Rust implementation of Codex CLI in codex-rs/ (#629) 2025-04-24 13:31:40 -07:00
README.md fix: make the TUI the default/"interactive" CLI in Rust (#711) 2025-04-28 13:46:22 -07:00
rustfmt.toml feat: initial import of Rust implementation of Codex CLI in codex-rs/ (#629) 2025-04-24 13:31:40 -07:00

codex-rs

April 24, 2025

Today, Codex CLI is written in TypeScript and requires Node.js 22+ to run it. For a number of users, this runtime requirement inhibits adoption: they would be better served by a standalone executable. As maintainers, we want Codex to run efficiently in a wide range of environments with minimal overhead. We also want to take advantage of operating system-specific APIs to provide better sandboxing, where possible.

To that end, we are moving forward with a Rust implementation of Codex CLI contained in this folder, which has the following benefits:

  • The CLI compiles to small, standalone, platform-specific binaries.
  • Can make direct, native calls to seccomp and landlock in order to support sandboxing on Linux.
  • No runtime garbage collection, resulting in lower memory consumption and better, more predictable performance.

Currently, the Rust implementation is materially behind the TypeScript implementation in functionality, so continue to use the TypeScript implmentation for the time being. We will publish native executables via GitHub Releases as soon as we feel the Rust version is usable.

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.
  • repl/ CLI that launches a lightweight REPL similar to the Python or Node.js REPL.
  • cli/ CLI multitool that provides the aforementioned CLIs via subcommands.