Codex VSCode extension source code and license issue

Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Aug 30, 2025 by xiaoxiangmoe Closed Oct 29, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Hello, I want to compile the VSCode extension for Codex and include it in the nix package manager. However, I can't find the corresponding license file and source code. Where can I find them?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/openai.chatgpt/license shows 404 - Page not found

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9 Comments

xiaoxiangmoe · 10 months ago

friendly ping @bolinfest

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

The VS Code extension is not open sourced. You can think of the extension as a UI wrapper around the CLI, which is open sourced and implements all of the core functionality for the extension.

bhack · 8 months ago

@etraut-openai Can you disclose why this choice?

ggaabe · 6 months ago

@etraut-openai you guys should open source this, I'd like to expose the UI as a website on a port from my computer so I can use my VPN to access it remotely on mobile

yunxpeng · 5 months ago

@etraut-openai I think open source is a better path.

LockedThread · 4 months ago

@etraut-openai Any update on this?

yoniholmes · 3 months ago

Given the extension is just a lightweight UI wrapper, it would be great to open source.

I'd like to raise a PR to make showing the 3 most recent tasks optional. It's quite inconvenient that there is no way to hide this, raise a PR to fix it, or to even to have somewhere to submit feedback about it.

bhack · 3 months ago

This could help also to better investigate annoying bug like https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/15330#issuecomment-4248241733

Skandesh · 1 month ago

yep, ++ to opensource this, interesting to see the inner workings of what's the context when we send with and without this option