When using a non-built-in provider with the `--provider` option, users
are prompted:
```
Set the environment variable <provider>_API_KEY and re-run this command.
You can create a <provider>_API_KEY in the <provider> dashboard.
```
However, many users are confused because, even after correctly setting
`<provider>_API_KEY`, authentication may still fail unless
`OPENAI_API_KEY` is _also_ present in the environment. This is not
intuitive and leads to ambiguity about which API key is actually
required and used as a fallback, especially when using custom or
third-party (non-listed) providers.
Furthermore, the original README/documentation did not mention the
requirement to set `<provider>_BASE_URL` for non-built-in providers,
which is necessary for proper client behavior. This omission made the
configuration process more difficult for users trying to integrate with
custom endpoints.
More of a proposal than anything but models seem to struggle with
composing valid patches for `apply_patch` for context matching when
there are unicode look-a-likes involved. This would normalize them.
```
top-level # ASCII
top-level # U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
top–level # U+2013 EN DASH
top—level # U+2014 EM DASH
top‒level # U+2012 FIGURE DASH
```
thanks unicode.
Updates the error message for missing Gemini API keys to reference
"Google AI Studio" instead of the generic "GEMINI dashboard". This
provides users with more accurate information about where to obtain
their Gemini API keys.
This could be extended to other providers as well.
The current turn input in the agent loop is being discarded before
consuming the stream events which causes the stream reconnect (after
rate limit failure) to not include the inputs. Since the new stream
includes the previous response ID, it triggers a bad request exception
considering the input doesn't match what OpenAI has stored on the server
side and subsequently a very confusing error message of: `No tool output
found for function call call_xyz`.
This should fix https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/586.
## Testing
I have a personal project that I'm working on that runs multiple Codex
CLIs in parallel and often runs into rate limit errors (as seen in the
OpenAI logs). After making this change, I am no longer experiencing
Codex crashing and it was able to retry and handle everything gracefully
until completion (even though I still see rate limiting in the OpenAI
logs).
This fixes https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/480 where the latest
code was crashing when attempting to be run inside docker since the
update checker attempts to reach out to `npm.antfu.dev` but that DNS is
not allowed in the firewall rules.
I believe the original code was attempting to catch and ignore any
errors when checking for updates but was doing so incorrectly. If you
use await on a promise, you have to use a standard try/catch instead of
`Promise.catch` so this fixes that.
## Testing
### Before
```
$ scripts/run_in_container.sh "explain this project to me"
7d1aa845edf9a36fe4d5b331474b5cb8ba79537b682922b554ea677f14996c6b
Resolving api.openai.com...
Adding 162.159.140.245 for api.openai.com
Adding 172.66.0.243 for api.openai.com
Host network detected as: 172.17.0.0/24
Firewall configuration complete
Verifying firewall rules...
Firewall verification passed - unable to reach https://example.com as expected
Firewall verification passed - able to reach https://api.openai.com as expected
TypeError: fetch failed
at node:internal/deps/undici/undici:13510:13
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async getLatestVersionBatch (file:///usr/local/share/npm-global/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:132669:17)
at async getLatestVersion (file:///usr/local/share/npm-global/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:132674:19)
at async getUpdateCheckInfo (file:///usr/local/share/npm-global/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:132748:20)
at async checkForUpdates (file:///usr/local/share/npm-global/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:132772:23)
at async file:///usr/local/share/npm-global/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:142027:1 {
[cause]: AggregateError [ECONNREFUSED]:
at internalConnectMultiple (node:net:1122:18)
at afterConnectMultiple (node:net:1689:7) {
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
[errors]: [ [Error], [Error] ]
}
}
```
### After
```
$ scripts/run_in_container.sh "explain this project to me"
91aa716e3d3f86c9cf6013dd567be31b2c44eb5d7ab184d55ef498731020bb8d
Resolving api.openai.com...
Adding 162.159.140.245 for api.openai.com
Adding 172.66.0.243 for api.openai.com
Host network detected as: 172.17.0.0/24
Firewall configuration complete
Verifying firewall rules...
Firewall verification passed - unable to reach https://example.com as expected
Firewall verification passed - able to reach https://api.openai.com as expected
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ● OpenAI Codex (research preview) v0.1.2504221401 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ localhost session: 7c782f196ae04503866e39f071e26a69 │
│ ↳ model: o4-mini │
│ ↳ provider: openai │
│ ↳ approval: full-auto │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
user
explain this project to me
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│( ● ) 2s Thinking │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
send q or ctrl+c to exit | send "/clear" to reset | send "/help" for commands | press enter to send | shift+enter for new line — 100% context left
```
### What
- Add support for loading and merging custom provider configurations
from a local `providers.json` file.
- Allow users to override or extend default providers with their own
settings.
### Why
This change enables users to flexibly customize and extend provider
endpoints and API keys without modifying the codebase, making the CLI
more adaptable for various LLM backends and enterprise use cases.
### How
- Introduced `loadProvidersFromFile` and `getMergedProviders` in config
logic.
- Added/updated related tests in [tests/config.test.tsx]
### Checklist
- [x] Lint passes for changed files
- [x] Tests pass for all files
- [x] Documentation/comments updated as needed
---------
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
Adding support to be able to run other models in quiet mode
ie: `codex --approval-mode full-auto -q "explain the current directory"
--provider xai --model grok-3-beta`
I haven't seen any actual errors due to this, but it's been bothering me
that I had it defaulted to 1. I think best to leave it undefined and
have each provider do their thing
Gemini's API is finicky, it 400's without an error when you pass
content: null
Also fixed the rate limiting issues by throwing outside of the iterator.
I think there's a separate issue with the second isRateLimit check in
agent-loop - turnInput is cleared by that time, so it retries without
the last message.
apply_patch doesn't create parent directories when creating a new file
leading to confusion and flailing by the agent. This will create parent
directories automatically when absent.
---------
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
## `0.1.2504221401`
### 🚀 Features
- Show actionable errors when api keys are missing (#523)
- Add CLI `--version` flag (#492)
### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- Agent loop for ZDR (`disableResponseStorage`) (#543)
- Fix relative `workdir` check for `apply_patch` (#556)
- Minimal mid-stream #429 retry loop using existing back-off (#506)
- Inconsistent usage of base URL and API key (#507)
- Remove requirement for api key for ollama (#546)
- Support `[provider]_BASE_URL` (#542)
Previously, we were ignoring the `workdir` field in an `ExecInput` when
running it through `canAutoApprove()`. For ordinary `exec()` calls, that
was sufficient, but for `apply_patch`, we need the `workdir` to resolve
relative paths in the `apply_patch` argument so that we can check them
in `isPathConstrainedTowritablePaths()`.
Likewise, we also need the workdir when running `execApplyPatch()`
because the paths need to be resolved again.
Ideally, the `ApplyPatchCommand` returned by `canAutoApprove()` would
not be a simple `patch: string`, but the parsed patch with all of the
paths resolved, in which case `execApplyPatch()` could expect absolute
paths and would not need `workdir`.
Fixes#540
# Skip API key validation for Ollama provider
## Description
This PR modifies the CLI to not require an API key when using Ollama as
the provider
## Changes
- Modified the validation logic to skip API key checks for these
providers
- Updated the README to clarify that Ollama doesn't require an API key
As requested by @tibo-openai at
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/357#issuecomment-2816554203, this
attempts a more minimal implementation of #357 that preserves as much as
possible of the existing code's exponential backoff logic.
Adds a small retry wrapper around the streaming for‑await loop so that
HTTP 429s which occur *after* the stream has started no longer crash the
CLI.
Highlights
• Re‑uses existing RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_WAIT_MS constant and 5‑attempt
limit.
• Exponential back‑off identical to initial request handling.
This comment is probably more useful here in the PR:
// The OpenAI SDK may raise a 429 (rate‑limit) *after* the stream has
// started. Prior logic already retries the initial `responses.create`
// call, but we need to add equivalent resilience for mid‑stream
// failures. We keep the implementation minimal by wrapping the
// existing `for‑await` loop in a small retry‑for‑loop that re‑creates
// the stream with exponential back‑off.
A recent commit introduced the ability to use third-party model
providers. (Really appreciate it!)
However, the usage is inconsistent: some pieces of code use the custom
providers, whereas others still have the old behavior. Additionally,
`OPENAI_BASE_URL` is now being disregarded when it shouldn't be.
This PR normalizes the usage to `getApiKey` and `getBaseUrl`, and
enables the use of `OPENAI_BASE_URL` if present.
---------
Co-authored-by: Gabriel Bianconi <[email protected]>
Without this I get an issue running codex it in a docker container. I
receive:
```
{
"answer": "{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"input_text\",\"text\":\"\\\"Say hello world\\\"\"}],\"type\":\"message\"}\n{\"id\":\"error-1745325184914\",\"type\":\"message\",\"role\":\"system\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"input_text\",\"text\":\"⚠️ OpenAI rejected the request (request ID: req_f9027b59ebbce00061e9cd2dbb2d529a). Error details: Status: 400, Code: invalid_function_parameters, Type: invalid_request_error, Message: 400 Invalid schema for function 'shell': In context=(), 'required' is required to be supplied and to be an array including every key in properties. Missing 'workdir'.. Please verify your settings and try again.\"}]}\n"
}
```
This fix makes it work.
I saw cases where the first chunk of output from `ls -R` could be large
enough to exceed `MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES` or `MAX_OUTPUT_LINES`, in which case
the loop would exit early in `createTruncatingCollector()` such that
nothing was appended to the `chunks` array. As a result, the reported
`stdout` of `ls -R` would be empty.
I asked Codex to add logic to handle this edge case and write a unit
test. I used this as my test:
```
./codex-cli/dist/cli.js -q 'what is the output of `ls -R`'
```
now it appears to include a ton of stuff whereas before this change, I
saw:
```
{"type":"function_call_output","call_id":"call_a2QhVt7HRJYKjb3dIc8w1aBB","output":"{\"output\":\"\\n\\n[Output truncated: too many lines or bytes]\",\"metadata\":{\"exit_code\":0,\"duration_seconds\":0.5}}"}
```
## `0.1.2504211509`
### 🚀 Features
- Support multiple providers via Responses-Completion transformation
(#247)
- Add user-defined safe commands configuration and approval logic #380
(#386)
- Allow switching approval modes when prompted to approve an
edit/command (#400)
- Add support for `/diff` command autocomplete in TerminalChatInput
(#431)
- Auto-open model selector if user selects deprecated model (#427)
- Read approvalMode from config file (#298)
- `/diff` command to view git diff (#426)
- Tab completions for file paths (#279)
- Add /command autocomplete (#317)
- Allow multi-line input (#438)
### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- `full-auto` support in quiet mode (#374)
- Enable shell option for child process execution (#391)
- Configure husky and lint-staged for pnpm monorepo (#384)
- Command pipe execution by improving shell detection (#437)
- Name of the file not matching the name of the component (#354)
- Allow proper exit from new Switch approval mode dialog (#453)
- Ensure /clear resets context and exclude system messages from
approximateTokenUsed count (#443)
- `/clear` now clears terminal screen and resets context left indicator
(#425)
- Correct fish completion function name in CLI script (#485)
- Auto-open model-selector when model is not found (#448)
- Remove unnecessary isLoggingEnabled() checks (#420)
- Improve test reliability for `raw-exec` (#434)
- Unintended tear down of agent loop (#483)
- Remove extraneous type casts (#462)
Updates `isSafeCommand()` so that an invocation of `find` is not
auto-approved if it contains any of: `-exec`, `-execdir`, `-ok`,
`-okdir`, `-delete`, `-fls`, `-fprint`, `-fprint0`, `-fprintf`.
Reverts https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/386 because:
* The parsing logic for shell commands was unsafe (`split(/\s+/)`
instead of something like `shell-quote`)
* We have a different plan for supporting auto-approved commands.
## What does this PR do?
* Implements the full `/clear` command in **codex‑cli**:
* Resets chat history **and** wipes the terminal screen.
* Shows a single system message: `Context cleared`.
* Adds comprehensive unit tests for the new behaviour.
## Why is it needed?
* Fixes user‑reported bugs:
* **#395**
* **#405**
## How is it implemented?
* **Code** – Adds `process.stdout.write('\x1b[3J\x1b[H\x1b[2J')` in
`terminal.tsx`. Removed reference to `prev` in `
setItems((prev) => [
...prev,
` in `terminal-chat-new-input.tsx` & `terminal-chat-input.tsx`.
## CI / QA
All commands pass locally:
```bash
pnpm test # green
pnpm run lint # green
pnpm run typecheck # zero TS errors
```
## Results
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/11dcf05c-e054-495a-8ecb-ac6ef21a9da4
---------
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
This PR tidies up primitives under storage/.
**Noop changes:**
* Promote logger implementation to top-level utility outside of agent/
* Use logger within storage primitives
* Cleanup doc strings and comments
**Functional changes:**
* Increase command history size to 10_000
* Remove unnecessary debounce implementation and ensure a session ID is
created only once per agent loop
---------
Signed-off-by: Thibault Sottiaux <[email protected]>
## Background
Addressing feedback from
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/333#discussion_r2050893224, this PR
adds support for Bun alongside npm, pnpm while keeping the code simple.
## Summary
The update‑check flow is refactored to use a direct registry lookup
(`fast-npm-meta` + `semver`) instead of shelling out to `npm outdated`,
and adds a lightweight installer‑detection mechanism that:
1. Checks if the invoked script lives under a known global‑bin directory
(npm, pnpm, or bun)
2. If not, falls back to local detection via `getUserAgent()` (the
`package‑manager‑detector` library)
## What’s Changed
- **Registry‑based version check**
- Replace `execFile("npm", ["outdated"])` with `getLatestVersion()` and
`semver.gt()`
- **Multi‑manager support**
- New `renderUpdateCommand` handles update commands for `npm`, `pnpm`,
and `bun`.
- Detect global installer first via `detectInstallerByPath()`
- Fallback to local detection via `getUserAgent()`
- **Module cleanup**
- Extract `detectInstallerByPath` into
`utils/package-manager-detector.ts`
- Remove legacy `checkOutdated`, `getNPMCommandPath`, and child‑process
JSON parsing
- **Flow improvements in `checkForUpdates`**
1. Short‑circuit by `UPDATE_CHECK_FREQUENCY`
3. Fetch & compare versions
4. Persist new timestamp immediately
5. Render & display styled box only when an update exists
- **Maintain simplicity**
- All multi‑manager logic lives in one small helper and a concise lookup
rather than a complex adapter hierarchy
- Core `checkForUpdates` remains a single, easy‑to‑follow async function
- **Dependencies added**
- `fast-npm-meta`, `semver`, `package-manager-detector`, `@types/semver`
## Considerations
If we decide to drop the interactive update‑message (`npm install -g
@openai/codex`) rendering altogether, we could remove most of the
installer‑detection code and dependencies, which would simplify the
codebase further but result in a less friendly UX.
## Preview
* npm
* bun
## Simple Flow Chart
```mermaid
flowchart TD
A(Start) --> B[Read state]
B --> C{Recent check?}
C -- Yes --> Z[End]
C -- No --> D[Fetch latest version]
D --> E[Save check time]
E --> F{Version data OK?}
F -- No --> Z
F -- Yes --> G{Update available?}
G -- No --> Z
G -- Yes --> H{Global install?}
H -- Yes --> I[Select global manager]
H -- No --> K{Local install?}
K -- No --> Z
K -- Yes --> L[Select local manager]
I & L --> M[Render update message]
M --> N[Format with boxen]
N --> O[Print update]
O --> Z
```
## What
This PR targets #402 and refactors the `history-overlay.tsx`component to
reduce cognitive complexity by splitting the `buildLists` function into
smaller, focused helper functions. It also adds comprehensive test
coverage to ensure the functionality remains intact.
## Why
The original `buildLists` function had high cognitive complexity due to
multiple nested conditionals, complex string manipulation, and mixed
responsibilities. This refactor makes the code more maintainable and
easier to understand while preserving all existing functionality.
## How
- Split `buildLists` into focused helper functions
- Added comprehensive test coverage for all functionality
- Maintained existing behavior and keyboard interactions
- Improved code organization and readability
## Testing
All tests pass, including:
- Command mode functionality
- File mode functionality
- Keyboard interactions
- Error handling
As described in
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/392#issuecomment-2817090022
introduced by #400
The testing I'd done worked correctly because I was using the (s)
shortcut, but selecting the same option using arrow‑key → Enter on
“Switch approval mode” was preventing the user from subsequently exiting
the Switch approval mode dialog, requiring a ^C to quit codex entirely.
With this fix, both entry methods work correctly in my testing.
Per codex:
Issue
- When you navigated down (↓) to “Switch approval mode (s)” in the Shell
Command review dialog and pressed Enter, the ApprovalModeOverlay would
open—but because the underlying `TerminalChatCommandReview` component
stayed mounted (albeit disabled), its own Ink input handlers immediately
re‑captured the same key events and re‑opened the overlay as soon as you
hit Esc or Enter again. In practice this made it impossible to exit the
submenu.
Root cause
- We only disabled the SelectInput via `isDisabled`, but never fully
unmounted the review UI when an overlay was shown, so its `useInput` and
`<Select>` hooks were still active and “stealing” keys.
Fix
- In `terminal-chat.tsx` we now only render `<TerminalChatInput>` (and
by extension `TerminalChatCommandReview`) when `overlayMode === "none"`.
That unmounts all of its key handlers whenever any overlay (history,
model, approval, help, diff) is open, so no input leaks through.
Files changed
- **src/components/chat/terminal-chat.tsx**: Wrapped the entire
`<TerminalChatInput>` block in `overlayMode === "none" && agent`
With that in place, arrow‑key → Enter on “Switch approval mode”
correctly opens the overlay, and then you can use Enter/Esc inside the
overlay without getting stuck or immediately re‑opening it.
## Description
This PR fixes Issue #421 where commands with pipes (e.g., `grep -R ...
-n | head -n 20`) were failing to execute properly after PR #391 was
merged.
## Changes
- Modified the `requiresShell` function to only enable shell mode when
the command is a single string containing shell operators
- Added logic to handle the case where shell operators are passed as
separate arguments
- Added comprehensive tests to verify the fix
## Root Cause
The issue was that the `requiresShell` function was detecting shell
operators like `|` even when they were passed as separate arguments,
which caused the command to be executed with `shell: true`
unnecessarily. This was causing syntax errors when running commands with
pipes.
## Testing
- Added unit tests to verify the fix
- Manually tested with real commands using pipes
- Ensured all existing tests pass
Fixes#421
It appears that use of `isLoggingEnabled()` was erroneously copypasta'd
in many places. This PR updates its docstring to clarify that should
only be used to avoid constructing a potentially expensive docstring.
With this change, the only function that merits/uses this check is
`execCommand()`.
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with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/420).
* #423
* __->__ #420
* #419
To play it safe, let's keep `CONFIG_DIR` out of the default list of
writable roots.
This also fixes an issue where `execWithSeatbelt()` was modifying
`writableRoots` instead of creating a new array.
---
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* #423
* #420
* __->__ #419
## Description
This PR implements multi-line input support for Codex when it asks for
user feedback (Issue #344). Users can now use Shift+Enter to add new
lines in their responses, making it easier to provide formatted code
snippets, lists, or other structured content.
## Changes
- Replace the single-line TextInput component with the
MultilineTextEditor component in terminal-chat-input.tsx
- Add support for Shift+Enter to create new lines
- Update key handling logic to properly handle history navigation in a
multi-line context
- Add reference to the editor to access cursor position information
- Update help text to inform users about the Shift+Enter functionality
- Add tests for the new functionality
## Testing
- Added new test file (terminal-chat-input-multiline.test.tsx) to test
the multi-line input functionality
- All existing tests continue to pass
- Manually tested the feature to ensure it works as expected
## Fixes
Closes#344
## Screenshots
N/A
## Additional Notes
This implementation maintains backward compatibility while adding the
requested multi-line input functionality. The UI remains clean and
intuitive, with a simple hint about using Shift+Enter for new lines.
---------
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
