Has this project been half-abandoned?
Resolved 💬 12 comments Opened Jun 18, 2025 by doggy8088 Closed Aug 2, 2025
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I've noticed that the main branch of this repo hasn't been updated in two weeks. It's surprising why this key tool lacks resources from OpenAI, especially when Anthropic is updating its Claude Code tool daily. There are a lot of issues, and almost no one responds to or approves the PRs.
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yeah, it was buggy on launch , still is, and maintainers aren't responsive at all, don't waste your time. think they put the C team on this and the real focus is on the chatgpt codex tool.
kinda obvious, that this just some vibe-coded one-shot from openai to have something "like" claude code.
claude code is used internally at anthropic and gets better every day, tried codex agan because i reached my usage limit and, to be honest i'm quite dissapointed.
I think so.It’s just an experimental project with many bugs from the beginning.
Codex CLI seems like a different beast to Codex in ChatGPT. I would love to use the ChatGPT one locally with the tuned o3 model.
I too noticed this. Really hope this is just their team members taking some holidays, not because they left or got assigned to the Codex UI tool or other projects. This cli tool is very useful in certain situations where the cloud based Codex tool is not suitable, such as non GitHub repos.
It seems the team is unfamiliar with how to properly utilize GitHub's CI/CD auto-review system for alpha-stage projects. For a multi-billion dollar company backing a project of this scale, I'd expect a higher level of professionalism when it comes to managing GitHub workflows and providing responsive community support.
Yup... Clearly just some half arsed marketing ploy.
Claude Code - Almost daily updates.
Codex - Last change over 2 weeks ago.
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Disappointed to see this. I did expect the Rust transition to kill some momentum, but so far this list of blocking issues for the cutover has (apparently) had zero progress in the last couple weeks: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1262
Why isn’t there a Python version? It’s only the most widely used language, after all. What really concerns me, though, is that the Rust prototype is overloaded with Cargo dependencies. Like, way too many just to get started. One or two is fine for bootstrapping, but this feels excessive. It's going to be a nightmare to debug or merge anything.
Have we considered migrating this to a more community-driven project, like Codex? There’s some genuinely impressive code here, but it’s buried under layers of what feels like AI-generated sludge. I want to contribute and help clean it up, but honestly, I’m at a loss. I don’t even know where to begin, or whether any of my work would be integrated at all.
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I tried it today and I couldn't make it work. I tried logging in and
export OPENAI_API_KEY.<img width="1458" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/511c3dbf-f9fc-46ae-8c3f-abab11e02ac2" />
We overhauled the UX in https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.11.0 and you can see we have many contributors from OpenAI now.