Table of Contents

• Overview
• When To Use
• When NOT To Use
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
• Smart Delegation
• Codex-Specific Details
• Exit Criteria

Codex CLI Delegation

Overview

OpenAI's Codex CLI ships as npm @openai/codex and installs a codex binary. Its headless entry point is codex exec, which takes the prompt as a positional argument and reuses saved CLI credentials.