Codex guides

Keep every Codex account in its own Codex window on a Mac. Open starts it, Show brings it forward. Headroom, refill timers, and Auto-roll keep quota visible.

Accounts · 2026-10-11

Run the official Codex app with several accounts on one Mac: one Codex window per account, Open and Show, status words, headroom, and Find task.

Accounts · 2026-10-11

Stop logging out of Codex to change accounts. Save each account once, give each its own Codex window, and keep work, client, and personal sessions separate.

Accounts · 2026-09-06

Manage multiple Codex accounts safely in CodexUse. Save each account once, rename it, and rotate between accounts for rate limit management.

Accounts · 2026-09-06

Run several OpenAI logins in one desktop app, or add a custom-model account on an OpenAI-compatible provider. Open each account in its own Codex window without re-auth.

Accounts · 2026-10-11

CodexUse warns when two saved accounts resolve to one OpenAI identity. Learn why it appears and how to handle duplicate Codex accounts.

Accounts · 2026-09-06

Set CodexUse Auto-roll's Roll below, Rejoin above, and Warn below thresholds, all a percentage of quota left, so it moves to another account before Codex stalls on a 429.

Auto-roll · 2026-10-11

Three things you can do when a Codex account runs out mid-task, what each one costs, and which ones are worth setting up before you need them.

Rate limits · 2026-10-11

Understand Codex rate limits, why 429s happen, and how to see per-account headroom before long runs stall. Open another account before sessions fail.

429s · 2026-10-12

Codex not working? Work through auth, rate limits, network, config, and version in that order. Most failures clear in minutes without reinstalling the CLI.

Triage · 2026-09-06

Codex keeps asking you to log in again? Fix expired or revoked login state, refresh the right account, and get back to work without deleting your local setup.

Login · 2026-09-06

Codex usage guide: installation, authentication, basic commands, configuration. Learn how to use the Codex CLI effectively with real examples.

Basics · 2026-09-06

Where Codex keeps model, reasoning effort, approval policy, sandbox mode, and MCP servers, and how each CodexUse account gets its own config.toml.

Settings · 2026-10-11

Add MCP servers to Codex by editing config.toml by hand, and keep each CodexUse account's servers isolated from every other account.

MCP · 2026-09-06

Use the CodexUse CLI to select the Codex CLI account, manage Account Pool, and check your license without opening the desktop app.

CLI · 2026-10-12

Install CodexUse with Homebrew, verify the CLI landed in PATH, and update cleanly with the official cask workflow on macOS.

Homebrew · 2026-10-12

How CodexUse handles updates, restarts, and installers on macOS, Windows, and Linux, including the manual Windows update step and where each package downloads from.

Updates · 2026-10-12

How to run a non-OpenAI, OpenAI-compatible model inside the official Codex app on an isolated account, with its own credential, model list, and reasoning effort.

Guide · 2026-09-20

Point the official Codex app at an OpenAI-compatible aggregator so one connection serves many models, each with its own transport and reasoning behavior.

Guide · 2026-09-20

What works, what does not, and how a custom-model account lets the official Codex app run on a model you supply.

Guide · 2026-10-11

Why a fixed low / medium / high list is wrong for most models, and how effort values are resolved from provider metadata instead of guessed.

Guide · 2026-09-20

What a custom-model account actually does, why it is not a billing bypass, and the terms you are responsible for reviewing.

Policy · 2026-09-06

Account Pool turns selected saved Codex accounts into one local API with shared quota, load balancing, and failover for another app.

Account Pool · 2026-10-12

Connect another OpenAI-compatible app to Account Pool so it gets one local API, pooled quota across selected accounts, load balancing, and failover.

Guide · 2026-10-12

Keep a work and a personal Claude Code account signed in at once with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, and check each account's five-hour session and weekly limits with /usage.

Claude Code · 2026-10-11

An honest comparison of CodexUse against codex-lb, codex-switcher, codex-pool and other free Codex account switchers: what each does, what none of them do, and when not to pay.

Comparison · 2026-10-13

Compare CodexUse, CodexBar, and vanilla Codex CLI by multi-account use, rate-limit visibility, local window control, and background help.

Comparison · 2026-10-11

Where multiple Codex accounts are ordinary, where they cross into terms abuse, and exactly what CodexUse does and does not do with the accounts you hold.

Policy · 2026-10-11

CodexUse desktop ships for Windows 11 x64 and Ubuntu 24.04 on x64 and arm64 alongside Apple Silicon macOS. What works on each platform, and the three features that still need macOS.

Release · 2026-10-11

Keep every Codex account saved on Windows 11, each in its own Codex home, with headroom, custom models, and Account Pool. What works and what needs macOS.

Windows · 2026-10-12

Run several Codex accounts on Linux: install the CodexUse desktop app on Ubuntu 24.04 x64 or arm64, or use the CodexUse CLI on SSH and headless boxes.

Linux · 2026-10-12