Rust SDK?

Open 💬 3 comments Opened May 27, 2026 by TeamDman

What variant of Codex are you using?

Desktop app

What feature would you like to see?

The GitHub Copilot SDK team just published their Rust SDK. I haven't used any sdk yet but it's on my personal todo list and ideally there would be a rust-native SDK to use with Codex as well.

The GH Copilot SDK is MIT so maybe some opportunity to accelerate Codex's Rust position given their position as a starting point

https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/issues/404#issuecomment-4501427477

https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/tree/102cd3eba9aae1f85d502a3fff9a732fba1957ac/rust

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3 Comments

maheerCodes · 3 months ago

A Rust SDK would be a really strong addition to the Codex ecosystem.

Rust is growing quickly in:

AI infrastructure.
local inference tools.
terminal applications.
developer tooling.
high-performance backend services.

A native SDK could make Codex much more attractive for Rust-first workflows instead of relying on unofficial wrappers or OpenAI-compatible abstractions.

Some things that would be especially valuable:

async-first API support (tokio) .
streaming responses.
tool/function calling support.
typed request/response models.
WebSocket + realtime support.
lightweight dependency footprint.
good examples for CLI/TUI apps.

Since the GitHub Copilot SDK already has a Rust implementation, there may indeed be an opportunity to reuse patterns or accelerate adoption for Codex developers.

I’d especially love to see:

official crates.io package.
strong documentation.
minimal example projects.
agent/tool integration examples.

This feels like a worthwhile enhancement request, especially as more systems developers and CLI tool authors adopt Codex.

robertmsale · 3 months ago

This repo is basically a SDK. Add this whole repo as a git submodule, add the crates inside codex-rs to the workspace and import them. I have a working example of this here.

But yeah for it to be an official crates.io package they'd need to make a library that re-exports all of the crates in here behind feature gates. Rather than wait for an official SDK, the submodule+workspace thing works perfectly. It's heavy, but it's available right now!

yukkit · 1 month ago

I've been working on a Rust SDK for Codex and have already implemented most of the functionality discussed in this issue:

https://github.com/yukkit/codex-sdk-rs

The exposed API is largely aligned with the existing Python and TypeScript SDKs to provide a consistent developer experience across languages.

If the team thinks an official Rust SDK would be valuable, I'd be happy to contribute this work to the official repository (whether as a single PR or a series of smaller PRs) and help maintain it over the long term. I think it would be great to have a first-party Rust SDK alongside the existing language SDKs.