doc: update the config.toml documentation for the Rust CLI in codex-rs/README.md (#795)

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/793 had important information on
the `notify` config option that seemed worth memorializing, so this PR
updates the documentation about all of the configurable options in
`~/.codex/config.toml`.
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Michael Bolin
2025-05-02 20:32:24 -07:00
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- [`exec/`](./exec) "headless" CLI for use in automation.
- [`tui/`](./tui) CLI that launches a fullscreen TUI built with [Ratatui](https://ratatui.rs/).
- [`cli/`](./cli) CLI multitool that provides the aforementioned CLIs via subcommands.
## Config
The CLI can be configured via `~/.codex/config.toml`. It supports the following options:
### model
The model that Codex should use.
```toml
model = "o3" # overrides the default of "o4-mini"
```
### approval_policy
Determines when the user should be prompted to approve whether Codex can execute a command:
```toml
# This is analogous to --suggest in the TypeScript Codex CLI
approval_policy = "unless-allow-listed"
```
```toml
# If the command fails when run in the sandbox, Codex asks for permission to
# retry the command outside the sandbox.
approval_policy = "on-failure"
```
```toml
# User is never prompted: if the command fails, Codex will automatically try
# something out. Note the `exec` subcommand always uses this mode.
approval_policy = "never"
```
### sandbox_permissions
List of permissions to grant to the sandbox that Codex uses to execute untrusted commands:
```toml
# This is comparable to --full-auto in the TypeScript Codex CLI, though
# specifying `disk-write-platform-global-temp-folder` adds /tmp as a writable
# folder in addition to $TMPDIR.
sandbox_permissions = [
"disk-full-read-access",
"disk-write-platform-user-temp-folder",
"disk-write-platform-global-temp-folder",
"disk-write-cwd",
]
```
To add additional writable folders, use `disk-write-folder`, which takes a parameter (this can be specified multiple times):
```toml
sandbox_permissions = [
# ...
"disk-write-folder=/Users/mbolin/.pyenv/shims",
]
```
### disable_response_storage
Currently, customers whose accounts are set to use Zero Data Retention (ZDR) must set `disable_response_storage` to `true` so that Codex uses an alternative to the Responses API that works with ZDR:
```toml
disable_response_storage = true
```
### notify
Specify a program that will be executed to get notified about events generated by Codex. Note that the program will receive the notification argument as a string of JSON, e.g.:
```json
{
"type": "agent-turn-complete",
"turn-id": "12345",
"input-messages": ["Rename `foo` to `bar` and update the callsites."],
"last-assistant-message": "Rename complete and verified `cargo build` succeeds."
}
```
The `"type"` property will always be set. Currently, `"agent-turn-complete"` is the only notification type that is supported.
As an example, here is a Python script that parses the JSON and decides whether to show a desktop push notification using [terminal-notifier](https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier) on macOS:
```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import json
import subprocess
import sys
def main() -> int:
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print("Usage: notify.py <NOTIFICATION_JSON>")
return 1
try:
notification = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return 1
match notification_type := notification.get("type"):
case "agent-turn-complete":
assistant_message = notification.get("last-assistant-message")
if assistant_message:
title = f"Codex: {assistant_message}"
else:
title = "Codex: Turn Complete!"
input_messages = notification.get("input_messages", [])
message = " ".join(input_messages)
title += message
case _:
print(f"not sending a push notification for: {notification_type}")
return 0
subprocess.check_output(
[
"terminal-notifier",
"-title",
title,
"-message",
message,
"-group",
"codex",
"-ignoreDnD",
"-activate",
"com.googlecode.iterm2",
]
)
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())
```
To have Codex use this script for notifications, you would configure it via `notify` in `~/.codex/config.toml` using the appropriate path to `notify.py` on your computer:
```toml
notify = ["python3", "/Users/mbolin/.codex/notify.py"]
```