Unexpected argument '--search' found

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Sep 8, 2025 by elopez3 Closed Sep 8, 2025

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.16.0

Which model were you using?

gpt-5 high reasoning effort

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.2.0 arm64 arm

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I type codex --search in my terminal and is outputting this error:

error: unexpected argument '--search' found

  tip: to pass '--search' as a value, use '-- --search'

Usage: codex-aarch64-apple-darwin [OPTIONS] [PROMPT]
       codex-aarch64-apple-darwin [OPTIONS] [PROMPT] <COMMAND>

For more information, try '--help'.

What is the expected behavior?

For codex --search to work and not error.

What do you see instead?

error: unexpected argument '--search' found

  tip: to pass '--search' as a value, use '-- --search'

Usage: codex-aarch64-apple-darwin [OPTIONS] [PROMPT]
       codex-aarch64-apple-darwin [OPTIONS] [PROMPT] <COMMAND>

For more information, try '--help'.

Additional information

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