Pipe context to codex

[AndrewHannigan]

Ability to pipe context to codex would be helpful for command-line ergonomics.

Example:

$ kubectl get pods | codex

andrewhannigan:restart-airflow-workers/ (ash-worker-restart✗) $ codex                                                                                                                                       [13:58:24]
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ● OpenAI Codex (research preview) v0.1.04161210              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ localhost session:          │
│ ↳ model: o4-mini                                             │
│ ↳ approval: suggest                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Investigate the failing pod                                                                                                                                                            │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
  try: explain this codebase to me | fix any build errors | are there any bugs in my code?

[maheshrijal]

I had this exact same thought yesterday and so I created #219. Shell / command mode should solve it imo. What do you think?

[AndrewHannigan]

@maheshrijal I'm supportive of your proposal but the convenience of piping output to codex is slightly different and would be a nice QOL feature too. I don't think the ideas are mutually exclusive fwiw.

[lostmygithubaccount]

I would use both personally