One agent for everywhere you code
Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent for software development. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise plans include Codex. It can help you:
- Write code: Describe what you want to build, and Codex generates code that matches your intent, adapting to your existing project structure and conventions.
- Understand unfamiliar codebases: Codex can read and explain complex or legacy code, helping you grasp how teams organize systems.
- Review code: Codex analyzes code to identify potential bugs, logic errors, and unhandled edge cases.
- Debug and fix problems: When something breaks, Codex helps trace failures, diagnose root causes, and suggest targeted fixes.
- Automate development tasks: Codex can run repetitive workflows such as refactoring, testing, migrations, and setup tasks so you can focus on higher-level engineering work
This is just another installation method for Codex, providing an alternative to documented installation methods such as NPM or Brew.
This is a strictly confined snap, which has the following considerations:
- The application has restricted access to system resources, providing an extra layer of security.
- System access is controlled by specifically configured interface plugs that are connected to the application.
- Codex will have access to files under your HOME directory only, which is then further bound by the Sandboxing Modes you have configured for Codex.
- Sandbox Modes do not supersede the strict confinement, rather the confinement acts as an extra security layer over the top.
- Any extra utilities or other external dependencies must be included within the snap package, either specifically or by inheritance from the snaps base.
- If you find an important dependency is missing, please open an Issue and/or PR so we can it's inclusion can be discussed.
- The default configuration location is different
- Please see the below for details
Install from the global snap store
sudo snap install codex
Configuration lives under $HOME/snap/codex/current
If you wish to, you could symlink this back to the standard/default location for convenience:
ln -s "${HOME}/snap/codex/current" "${HOME}/.codex"