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docs: confirm codex reinstall repair in troubleshooting
Reinstalling @openai/codex restored the missing native binary and kept the ChatGPT login (auth lives under ~/.codex, outside the npm package). Troubleshooting now includes the post-reinstall verification steps. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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npm install -g @openai/codex
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codex --version # confirm the binary runs
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codex login status # confirm you are still signed in
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Reinstalling does not sign you out: codex keeps its login under `~/.codex`,
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outside the npm package.
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Or switch CodeAlmanac to the Claude harness instead:
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docs/bugs/codealmanac-known-bugs.md

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the exact same spawn ENOENT, so every codex invocation on this machine fails,
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not just ours. codealmanac correctly surfaced a real harness failure.
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**Repaired 2026-07-07:** `npm install -g @openai/codex` restored the binary in
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seconds (`codex-cli 0.142.5`) and the ChatGPT login survived — codex keeps
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auth under `~/.codex`, outside the npm package. The README troubleshooting
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entry documents this repair.
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### S2. `init` does not preflight the configured harness before starting the build job — FIXED 2026-07-07
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`init` announced the job id, printed the tagline ("every codebase deserves a

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