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## Why Picker-style UI in the TUI has accumulated a mix of hardcoded navigation keys. Some lists supported page movement, some did not; some accepted Vim-like keys, while others only accepted arrows; and tabbed or horizontally adjustable pickers had no shared keymap action for left/right movement. This PR makes picker/list navigation consistent and configurable so users can rely on the same defaults across the TUI. ## What Changed - Adds shared list keymap actions for: - vertical movement: `move_up`, `move_down` - horizontal movement: `move_left`, `move_right` - paging and jumps: `page_up`, `page_down`, `jump_top`, `jump_bottom` - Adds defaults: - Up/down: arrows, `Ctrl+P/N`, `Ctrl+K/J`, and plain `k/j` where text input is not active - Page up/down: `PageUp/PageDown` and `Ctrl+B/F` - First/last: `Home/End` - Left/right: `Left/Right` and `Ctrl+H/L` - Wires the shared list keymap through picker and list surfaces including session resume, multi-select, tabbed selection lists, settings-style lists, app-link selection, MCP elicitation, request-user-input, and the OSS selection wizard. - Keeps search behavior intact by reserving printable characters for query text in searchable pickers. - Updates keymap setup actions, config schema, snapshots, and focused coverage for the new list actions. ## How to Test 1. Start Codex from this branch and open the session picker, for example with an existing session history. 2. In the session list, verify that `Ctrl+J/K` moves the selection down/up. 3. Verify that `Ctrl+F/B` pages down/up and `Home/End` jumps to the first/last visible session. 4. Type printable search text such as `j` or `k` and confirm it updates the query instead of navigating. 5. Focus a picker control that changes values horizontally, such as a session picker toolbar control, and verify `Ctrl+H/L` changes the focused value like left/right arrows. Targeted tests run: - `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap::tests::` - `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap_setup::tests::` - `cargo test -p codex-tui horizontal_list_keys` - `cargo test -p codex-tui page_and_jump_navigation_use_list_keymap` - `cargo test -p codex-tui ctrl_h_l_move_provider_selection` - `cargo test -p codex-tui scroll_state::tests` - `cargo test -p codex-tui switching_tabs_changes_visible_items_and_clears_search` - `cargo test -p codex-tui toggle_sort_key_reloads_with_new_sort` Also ran `just write-config-schema`, `just fmt`, `just fix -p codex-tui`, `just argument-comment-lint`, and `git diff --check`. Note: `cargo test -p codex-tui` was attempted and still aborts in the pre-existing `tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all` stack overflow, which is unrelated to this branch.
Codex CLI (Rust Implementation)
We provide Codex CLI as a standalone executable to ensure a zero-dependency install.
Installing Codex
Today, the easiest way to install Codex is via npm:
npm i -g @openai/codex
codex
You can also install via Homebrew (brew install --cask codex) or download a platform-specific release directly from our GitHub Releases.
Documentation quickstart
- First run with Codex? Start with
docs/getting-started.md(links to the walkthrough for prompts, keyboard shortcuts, and session management). - Want deeper control? See
docs/config.mdanddocs/install.md.
What's new in the Rust CLI
The Rust implementation is now the maintained Codex CLI and serves as the default experience. It includes a number of features that the legacy TypeScript CLI never supported.
Config
Codex supports a rich set of configuration options. Note that the Rust CLI uses config.toml instead of config.json. See docs/config.md for details.
Model Context Protocol Support
MCP client
Codex CLI functions as an MCP client that allows the Codex CLI and IDE extension to connect to MCP servers on startup. See the configuration documentation for details.
MCP server (experimental)
Codex can be launched as an MCP server by running codex mcp-server. This allows other MCP clients to use Codex as a tool for another agent.
Use the @modelcontextprotocol/inspector to try it out:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector codex mcp-server
Use codex mcp to add/list/get/remove MCP server launchers defined in config.toml, and codex mcp-server to run the MCP server directly.
Notifications
You can enable notifications by configuring a script that is run whenever the agent finishes a turn. The notify documentation includes a detailed example that explains how to get desktop notifications via terminal-notifier on macOS. When Codex detects that it is running under WSL 2 inside Windows Terminal (WT_SESSION is set), the TUI automatically falls back to native Windows toast notifications so approval prompts and completed turns surface even though Windows Terminal does not implement OSC 9.
codex exec to run Codex programmatically/non-interactively
To run Codex non-interactively, run codex exec PROMPT (you can also pass the prompt via stdin) and Codex will work on your task until it decides that it is done and exits. If you provide both a prompt argument and piped stdin, Codex appends stdin as a <stdin> block after the prompt so patterns like echo "my output" | codex exec "Summarize this concisely" work naturally. Output is printed to the terminal directly. You can set the RUST_LOG environment variable to see more about what's going on.
Use codex exec --ephemeral ... to run without persisting session rollout files to disk.
Experimenting with the Codex Sandbox
To test to see what happens when a command is run under the sandbox provided by Codex, we provide the following subcommands in Codex CLI:
# macOS
codex sandbox macos [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
# Linux
codex sandbox linux [COMMAND]...
# Windows
codex sandbox windows [COMMAND]...
# Legacy aliases
codex debug seatbelt [--log-denials] [COMMAND]...
codex debug landlock [COMMAND]...
To try a writable legacy sandbox mode with these commands, pass an explicit config override such
as -c 'sandbox_mode="workspace-write"'.
Selecting a sandbox policy via --sandbox
The Rust CLI exposes a dedicated --sandbox (-s) flag that lets you pick the sandbox policy without having to reach for the generic -c/--config option:
# Run Codex with the default, read-only sandbox
codex --sandbox read-only
# Allow the agent to write within the current workspace while still blocking network access
codex --sandbox workspace-write
# Danger! Disable sandboxing entirely (only do this if you are already running in a container or other isolated env)
codex --sandbox danger-full-access
The same setting can be persisted in ~/.codex/config.toml via the top-level sandbox_mode = "MODE" key, e.g. sandbox_mode = "workspace-write".
In workspace-write, Codex also includes ~/.codex/memories in its writable roots so memory maintenance does not require an extra approval.
Code Organization
This folder is the root of a Cargo workspace. It contains quite a bit of experimental code, but here are the key crates:
core/contains the business logic for Codex. Ultimately, we hope this becomes a library crate that is generally useful for building other Rust/native applications that use Codex.exec/"headless" CLI for use in automation.tui/CLI that launches a fullscreen TUI built with Ratatui.cli/CLI multitool that provides the aforementioned CLIs via subcommands.
If you want to contribute or inspect behavior in detail, start by reading the module-level README.md files under each crate and run the project workspace from the top-level codex-rs directory so shared config, features, and build scripts stay aligned.