codex-auth-setup

A setup guide for installing and signing in to codex-multi-auth, a tool for managing accounts used by the official Codex command-line program.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps install or refresh the tool, complete browser or manual login, check account health, inspect routing, and troubleshoot setup failures.
Why use it?
It provides a documented path for first-time login, account checks, account switching, and common browser or connection problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ndycode/codex-multi-auth/codex-auth-setup
Any agent
npx skills add ndycode/codex-multi-auth --skill codex-auth-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ndycode/codex-multi-auth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 495 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00032 $0.00495
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash 2ee4bed8542a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-auth-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/codex-auth-setup/SKILL.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

codex-auth-setup

Use this skill when the user wants to install, reinstall, upgrade, or troubleshoot codex-multi-auth for the official @openai/codex CLI.

Install

npm i -g @openai/codex
npm i -g codex-multi-auth

If the old scoped prerelease package is still installed:

npm uninstall -g @ndycode/codex-multi-auth
npm i -g codex-multi-auth

First login

codex-multi-auth login

Default flow:

  1. Open the account menu.
  2. Choose the browser-first OAuth path.
  3. Complete the official OAuth flow.
  4. Return to the terminal and confirm the account was saved.

Verify health and routing

codex-multi-auth status
codex-multi-auth list
codex-multi-auth check
codex-multi-auth forecast --live

Use these next when managing multiple accounts:

codex-multi-auth switch 2
codex-multi-auth verify-flagged
codex-multi-auth doctor --fix

Alternate login paths

Use these when browser launch is blocked or the shell is headless:

codex-multi-auth login --manual
CODEX_AUTH_NO_BROWSER=1 codex-multi-auth login

Troubleshooting

  • Run where codex-multi-auth if codex-multi-auth is not recognized.
  • Free port 1455 and retry if the OAuth callback server cannot bind.
  • Re-run codex-multi-auth login if the active account is stale or the wrong account was selected.
  • Use codex-multi-auth doctor --fix followed by codex-multi-auth check for a fast recovery loop.
  • See docs/getting-started.md, docs/configuration.md, docs/troubleshooting.md, and docs/reference/commands.md for the full command and config docs.

Usage boundaries

This project is for personal development use. For production or commercial workloads, use the OpenAI Platform API.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 2ee4bed8542a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-auth-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository ndycode/codex-multi-auth (465 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 495 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.