# codex: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

<https://github.com/openai/codex>

- Host: [github.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/github.com/)
- Saved: April 17, 2025 (2025-04-17T07:21:37Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1a57528ba5a4/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1a57528ba5a4.json

## What Jamie wrote

It is interesting to me that OpenAI calls this "lightweight".  This directly competes with [Claude Code](https://ai-claude.net/code/) and looks pretty interesting. I’m always a little cautious that the demos of these tools can be amazing and fall short of practical use. Need to try on some personal projects.

## Facts

- Kind: [Repository](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/repository/)
- Repository: openai/codex: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
- About the repository: Rust, 130,671 stars, Apache-2.0, last push October 23, 2026

## Appears in

- [WT316: Weekly Thing 316 / Blogroll, CaMeL, Insider](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/316/), Notable

## Mentioned by

- [OpenAI o3 & o4-mini - YouTube](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/15dd23614b52/) (youtube.com, April 17, 2025)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/openai/codex