import { Codex } from "@openai/codex-sdk";

const codex = new Codex();
const thread = codex.startThread();
const turn = await thread.run("Diagnose the test failure and propose a fix");

console.log(turn.finalResponse);
console.log(turn.items);

Call run() repeatedly on the same Thread instance to continue that conversation.

const nextTurn = await thread.run("Implement the fix");

Streaming responses

run() buffers events until the turn finishes. To react to intermediate progress—tool calls, streaming responses, and file diffs—use runStreamed() instead, which returns an async generator of structured events.

const { events } = await thread.runStreamed("Diagnose the test failure and propose a fix");

for await (const event of events) {
  switch (event.type) {
    case "item.completed":
      console.log("item", event.item);
      break;
    case "turn.completed":
      console.log("usage", event.usage);
      break;
  }
}

Structured output

Provide a JSON schema per turn to have Codex respond with structured JSON. Pass schemas as plain JavaScript objects.

const schema = {
  type: "object",
  properties: {
    summary: { type: "string" },
    status: { type: "string", enum: ["ok", "action_required"] },
  },
  required: ["summary", "status"],
  additionalProperties: false,
} as const;

const turn = await thread.run("Summarize repository status", { outputSchema: schema });
console.log(turn.finalResponse);

You can also create JSON schemas for Zod types using the zod-to-json-schema package and setting the target to "openAi".

const schema = z.object({
  summary: z.string(),
  status: z.enum(["ok", "action_required"]),
});

const turn = await thread.run("Summarize repository status", {
  outputSchema: zodToJsonSchema(schema, { target: "openAi" }),
});
console.log(turn.finalResponse);

Resuming an existing thread

Threads are persisted in ~/.codex/sessions. If you lose the in-memory Thread object, reconstruct it with resumeThread() and keep going.

const savedThreadId = process.env.CODEX_THREAD_ID!;
const thread = codex.resumeThread(savedThreadId);
await thread.run("Implement the fix");

Working directory controls

Codex runs in the current working directory by default. To avoid unrecoverable errors, Codex requires the working directory to be a Git repository. You can skip the Git repository check by passing the skipGitRepoCheck option when creating a thread.

const thread = codex.startThread({
  workingDirectory: "/path/to/project",
  skipGitRepoCheck: true,
});