Feature: add health check endpoint for CI integrations

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Apr 4, 2026 by SwifAI Closed Apr 4, 2026

Feature Request

When integrating codex into CI/CD pipelines, there's no way to verify that the codex service is reachable before running tasks. A health check endpoint would help avoid silent failures in automated workflows.

Use case:
Our team runs codex in GitHub Actions and we need to verify connectivity before each run. Currently if the API is unreachable, the job hangs for the full timeout.

Proposed solution:
Add a /health endpoint or a codex health CLI command that returns service status.

Example integration:

- name: Check codex health
  run: codex health --timeout 5s

This would save CI minutes and improve reliability for teams using codex in automation.

Priority: Medium — this blocks our rollout to 3 more repos.

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