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How come the official codex install instructions say use npm install?

(I just rebuilt my sandbox vm a few days ago….)

Or are there two separate codex clients?

https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli

The one from npm is signed by OpenAI, which means computer use from the CLI. The brew distribution requires using the Codex app for computer use.

Thanks Apple.

Because people are crazy, usage of npm for installing binaries is quite common unfortunately.

So …. do I understand it right? openai, one of the hottest companies on the planet right now, with very deep pockets, distribute their official rust cli via the … public npm repo?

Yes.

There is also homebrew install.

Maybe they consider npm-install an improvement over curl-pipe-bash?

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