Codex CLI
OpenAI's terminal-based coding agent — natural language to code
About Codex CLI
OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal. Codex CLI takes natural language instructions and translates them into shell commands, code edits, and multi-step development workflows with sandboxed execution.
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