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[Feature request] Add (codex) to author in commit message and as "codex ${model}" as Co-author # Aider feature parity / convention

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 14, 2025 by gwpl Closed Aug 7, 2025

To follow Aider convention, please consider adding feature:

that adds "(codex)" to author name in commit messages by default (or when enabled by flag / config setting) , like defined here in Aider:

and as "codex ${model}" as Co-author , like defined here in Aider:

Helpful for LLM/Agent coder Behaviour Summary:

temporary workaround:

For now users can instruct codex to :

* for commiting use: `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$(git config user.name) (codex)" git commit` to append " (codex)" to author name.

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2 Comments

codex-maintainers · 1 year ago

Thank you for the feature request! We're primarily focused on the native/Rust implementation of Codex CLI. Please try the latest version and let us know if this is still relevant. If so, we'd be happy to consider a PR to the codex-rs/ implementation.

franciscojavierarceo · 2 months ago

Hey folks, I maintain a few open source projects and I really value git attribution because it's transparent when I receive changes from unknown authors. Would really love to see this supported.

I have a working implementation that restores the Co-authored-by trailer feature as opt-in, matching the Aider convention requested here. Related: #14994, #18095, #14051, #23007, #19799.

Branch: franciscojavierarceo/codex@feat/git-commit-attribution

What it does:

  • Opt-in via [features] codex_git_commit = true in config.toml
  • Default trailer dynamically includes the model name: Co-authored-by: Codex o4-mini <noreply@openai.com>
  • Customizable via the existing commit_attribution config key (which was available before the feature was removed in d18a7c982): commit_attribution = "MyOrg Codex <codex@myorg.com>"
  • Set commit_attribution = "" to disable while keeping the feature flag on
  • 10 unit + integration tests covering all config combinations

Happy to open a PR if the team is interested.