OpenAI Codex CLI
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
OpenAI Codex CLI scores 8.5/10 (Strong) in Agents.
Language Rust License Apache-2.0 Stars 95.4k★ Type lightweight Self-host Yes Repo openai/codex Homepage https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli
Quality
Strong 8.5
Adoption 75
Activity 95
Maturity 84
Community 79
Capability 73
Show the math
Overall 8.5/10
value = 8.5/10
score = value
Adoption 7.7/10
value = 74.5/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Activity 9.6/10
value = 95.3/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Maturity 8.5/10
value = 83.7/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Community 8.1/10
value = 79.2/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Capability 7.6/10
value = 72.8/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Key metrics
95.4k★ GitHub stars
2.8k/90d Recent commits
34 devs/90d Recent contributors
SWE 73% SWE-bench Verified Harness score is model-dependent (GPT-5 family)
1.2y Project age
active Last commit
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Self-hosted
You deploy and operate it yourself; there is no hosted option here.
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