Installation

Installation

You can install Codexify from a prebuilt binary (fastest) or build it from source.

Prerequisites

• An OpenAI/ChatGPT account with Developer mode for the connector (a ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription is what makes the connector usable).
• Git on your PATH if you want the git tools and diff checkpoints to work (recommended).
• For the native OpenAI tunnel (recommended connection mode), you'll create a tunnel ID and a restricted runtime API key later — see Connecting to ChatGPT.
• To build from source only: a recent Rust toolchain (edition 2024).

Option A — Prebuilt binary (recommended)

Each release ships one native binary per platform:

Platform	Archive
Windows x64	windows-x64
Linux x64	linux-x64
Linux arm64	linux-arm64
macOS Intel	darwin-x64
macOS Apple Silicon	darwin-arm64

1. Download the archive for your OS/arch from the Releases page.
2. Verify the checksum against the published SHA256SUMS (each release publishes checksums alongside the archives).
3. Unpack it.
4. Put codexify (or codexify.exe) somewhere on your PATH.

These are native builds, so there is no AVX2/baseline caveat — the binary runs on any CPU of its architecture.

Verify it runs:

codexify --help

Option B — Build from source

git clone https://github.com/devnoname120/codexify.git
cd codexify
cargo build --release
# binary is at target/release/codexify

You can also run without installing:

cargo run --release -- --work-dir /path/to/your/project

Everywhere this wiki writes codexify …, the source-checkout equivalent is cargo run --release -- ….

Where Codexify keeps its data

Codexify never writes into the project you point it at. Its own state lives under your home directory in ~/.codexify/:

Path	Holds
~/.codexify/openai-tunnel/	The managed OpenAI tunnel client runtime and its pinned install manifest
~/.codexify/openai-tunnel/credentials/	Per-tunnel runtime key files written by quickstart (Unix: mode 0700/0600)
~/.codexify/projects/<name>-<hash>/memory.json	Per-project plan and notes (see Context and Memory)
~/.codexify/conversation-projects/	Per-conversation project bindings in multi-project mode

It also reads (never rewrites) Codex's own config at $CODEX_HOME/config.toml (default ~/.codex/config.toml) to discover MCP servers and, in multi-project mode, project candidates.

Next step

Head to Quick Start for the guided setup, or CLI Reference if you'd rather wire everything by hand.