## Summary - add v2 personal access token support for `codex login --with-access-token` and `CODEX_ACCESS_TOKEN` - classify opaque `at-` tokens separately from legacy Agent Identity JWTs - hydrate required ChatGPT account metadata through AuthAPI `/v1/user-auth-credential/whoami` - use PATs directly as bearer tokens while preserving existing ChatGPT account surfaces - expose PAT-backed auth as the explicit `personalAccessToken` app-server auth mode ## Implementation PAT auth is intentionally small and stateless. Loading a PAT performs one AuthAPI metadata request, stores the hydrated metadata in the in-memory auth object, and redacts the secret from debug output. Legacy Agent Identity JWT handling remains unchanged. The shared access-token classifier lives in a private neutral module because it dispatches between both credential types. PAT hydration fails closed when AuthAPI omits any required metadata, including email. Hydrated metadata is intentionally not persisted: startup performs a live `whoami` preflight so revoked tokens or changed account metadata are not accepted from a stale cache. ## Workspace restriction scope This change intentionally does **not** apply `forced_chatgpt_workspace_id` to PAT authentication. The setting is a client-side config guardrail, not an authorization boundary, and PAT does not currently require workspace-ID parity. The PAT login and `CODEX_ACCESS_TOKEN` paths therefore validate through AuthAPI without threading workspace-restriction state through access-token loading. Existing workspace checks for non-PAT auth remain on their established paths. ## App-server compatibility The public app-server `AuthMode` is shared across v1 and v2, and PAT-backed auth reports `personalAccessToken` through both APIs. Following human review, this intentionally removes the temporary v1 compatibility mapping that reported PATs as `chatgpt`; the deprecated v1 API is kept in parity with v2 rather than maintaining a separate closed enum. Clients with exhaustive auth-mode handling in either API version must add the new case and should generally treat it as ChatGPT-backed unless they need PAT-specific behavior. The v1 auth-status response still omits the raw PAT when `includeToken` is requested because that response cannot carry the account metadata needed to reuse the credential safely. Persisted PAT auth also omits the new enum value so older Codex builds can deserialize `auth.json` and infer PAT auth from the credential field after a rollback. ## Validation Latest review-fix validation: - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-login` (126 passed) - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-cli` (263 passed) - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-cli stored_auth_validation_handles_personal_access_token` - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` (226 passed) - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-models-manager refresh_available_models_uses_remote_only_catalog_for_chatgpt_auth` - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just test -p codex-tui existing_non_oauth_chatgpt_login_counts_as_signed_in` - `CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 just fix -p codex-login -p codex-app-server-protocol -p codex-models-manager -p codex-tui -p codex-cli` - `just fmt` - `git diff --check` The broader `codex-tui` suite previously compiled and ran 2,834 tests. Three unrelated environment-sensitive guardian/IDE-socket tests failed after retries; the PAT-relevant TUI coverage passed.
Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer.
If you want Codex in your code editor (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf), install in your IDE.
If you want the desktop app experience, run
codex app or visit the Codex App page.
If you are looking for the cloud-based agent from OpenAI, Codex Web, go to chatgpt.com/codex.
Quickstart
Installing and running Codex CLI
Run the following on Mac or Linux to install Codex CLI:
curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh
Run the following on Windows to install Codex CLI:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex"
Codex CLI can also be installed via the following package managers:
# Install using npm
npm install -g @openai/codex
# Install using Homebrew
brew install --cask codex
Then simply run codex to get started.
You can also go to the latest GitHub Release and download the appropriate binary for your platform.
Each GitHub Release contains many executables, but in practice, you likely want one of these:
- macOS
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
codex-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz - x86_64 (older Mac hardware):
codex-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
- Apple Silicon/arm64:
- Linux
- x86_64:
codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz - arm64:
codex-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
- x86_64:
Each archive contains a single entry with the platform baked into the name (e.g., codex-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl), so you likely want to rename it to codex after extracting it.
Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan
Run codex and select Sign in with ChatGPT. We recommend signing into your ChatGPT account to use Codex as part of your Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise plan. Learn more about what's included in your ChatGPT plan.
You can also use Codex with an API key, but this requires additional setup.
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This repository is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
