I find the Codex CLI to be the worst of the CLI tools I’ve used (including, but not limited to, Claude Code, Gemini, Aider).
There’s something about it that makes it clunky.
Haven’t tried Cursor CLI yet though.
I don’t visit Twitter links. Why not a link to the GitHub changelog?
Also, as an aside since you are on the team - the organization verification is frustrating in that the docs indicate:
>You must not have recently verified another organization, as each ID can only verify one organization every 90 days.
I champion OpenAI at my work, so naturally I’d be the one to verify there. But I apparently can’t, because I verify for my personal-led org. That gets in the way of me proselytizing gpt-5 based coding tools (such as, possibly, Codex CLI).
Tried your latest version - thanks for posting about it.
Codex needs plan mode (shift-tab in Claude Code)
And Codex needs the prompt to always be available. So you can type to the model while it’s working & have it eventually receive the message and act on it, instead of having to Ctrl-C to interrupt it before typing. Claude Code’s prompt is always ready to type at - you can type while it is working. That goes a long way towards it feeling like it cares about the user.
I tried it out and it's definitely much better. A couple requests:
- Let me change my setting for command running approval, or make approval fine-grained by command
- Support vim motions
Hmm, I just upgraded my local codex-cli to 0.19.0 and had to smoke the ~/.codex directory before I could again try to login. Once past that, everything worked fine (so far at least), and managed to get it to connect to my ChatGPT Pro account.