Codex

OpenAI's terminal coding agent. The **harness** is the sandboxed tool-call loop with multi-provider support; the CLI is the shell. Reference implementation for "official CLI that ships code."

sandboxprovider-agnosticcli

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Adoption surface: slightly complex
Autonomy: bounded
Recovery: resumable
License: ✅ open-source
Category: Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites)

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