Unable to setup the codex

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 28, 2025 by smartcraze Closed Apr 29, 2025

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

What is the type of issue?

Documentation is missing

What is the issue?

gives out this error
suraj@suraj ~/p/Second-brain-Backends (main)> codex
Initializing agent…

ERROR crypto is not defined

file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:556:2000

(file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:556:2000)
V1 (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:112:27748)
f_e (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:125:13588)
p_e (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:125:13331)
d_e (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:125:13237)
u_e (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:125:13113)
lAe (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:129:11795)
ad (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:129:11449)
(file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:129:10543)
ye (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/dist/cli.js:26:15388)

Where did you find it?

_No response_

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2 Comments

aarongough · 1 year ago

@smartcraze the crypto is not defined error appears to happen when you are accidentally using a version of Node that's too old.

I didn't realize my NVM was set to use Node version ~16 by default, and after installing codex (which succeeded despite the node version being too old 🤔 ) on that old version I tried the codex command and was greeted with crypto not defined.

After upgrading to the the latest node version a fresh install of codex seems to work as expected.

tibo-openai collaborator · 1 year ago

Should use node version of at least 22.

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