[cyberpunk]

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

[nicoritschel]

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.

[krzyk]

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

[cyberpunk]

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?

[qznc]

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

[krzyk]

Yes.

There is also homebrew install.