feat: support dotenv (including ~/.codex/.env) (#1653)

This PR adds a `load_dotenv()` helper function to the `codex-common`
crate that is available when the `cli` feature is enabled. The function
uses [`dotenvy`](https://crates.io/crates/dotenvy) to update the
environment from:

- `$CODEX_HOME/.env`
- `$(pwd)/.env`

To test:

- ran `printenv OPENAI_API_KEY` to verify the env var exists in my
environment
- ran `just codex exec hello` to verify the CLI uses my `OPENAI_API_KEY`
- ran `unset OPENAI_API_KEY`
- ran `just codex exec hello` again and got **ERROR: Missing environment
variable: `OPENAI_API_KEY`**, as expected
- created `~/.codex/.env` and added `OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-proj-...` (also
ran `chmod 400 ~/.codex/.env` for good measure)
- ran `just codex exec hello` again and it worked, verifying it picked
up `OPENAI_API_KEY` from `~/.codex/.env`

Note this functionality was available in the TypeScript CLI:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/122 and was recently requested over
on https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1262#issuecomment-3093203551.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Bolin
2025-07-22 15:54:33 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent 3ef544fb95
commit d6c4083f98
4 changed files with 23 additions and 1 deletions

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codex-rs/Cargo.lock generated
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@@ -756,7 +756,9 @@ version = "0.0.0"
dependencies = [
"anyhow",
"clap",
"codex-common",
"codex-core",
"dotenvy",
"landlock",
"libc",
"seccompiler",
@@ -1272,6 +1274,12 @@ version = "0.3.3"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
checksum = "fea41bba32d969b513997752735605054bc0dfa92b4c56bf1189f2e174be7a10"
[[package]]
name = "dotenvy"
version = "0.15.7"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
checksum = "1aaf95b3e5c8f23aa320147307562d361db0ae0d51242340f558153b4eb2439b"
[[package]]
name = "dupe"
version = "0.9.1"

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@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ fn default_model() -> String {
/// function will Err if the path does not exist.
/// - If `CODEX_HOME` is not set, this function does not verify that the
/// directory exists.
fn find_codex_home() -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
pub fn find_codex_home() -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
// Honor the `CODEX_HOME` environment variable when it is set to allow users
// (and tests) to override the default location.
if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("CODEX_HOME") {

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@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ workspace = true
[dependencies]
anyhow = "1"
clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
codex-common = { path = "../common", features = ["cli"] }
codex-core = { path = "../core" }
dotenvy = "0.15.7"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
[dev-dependencies]

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@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ where
crate::run_main();
}
// This modifies the environment, which is not thread-safe, so do this
// before creating any threads/the Tokio runtime.
load_dotenv();
// Regular invocation create a Tokio runtime and execute the provided
// async entry-point.
let runtime = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new()?;
@@ -61,3 +65,11 @@ where
pub fn run_main() -> ! {
panic!("codex-linux-sandbox is only supported on Linux");
}
/// Load env vars from ~/.codex/.env and `$(pwd)/.env`.
fn load_dotenv() {
if let Ok(codex_home) = codex_core::config::find_codex_home() {
dotenvy::from_path(codex_home.join(".env")).ok();
}
dotenvy::dotenv().ok();
}