codex cli has been out for 5 months with 170k weekly downloads - it's definitely 'ready for primetime' if you can get past your bug. I don't have that issue.

The install errors out after following two basic install commands. This is poor code hygiene on the part of the authors. That's "not ready for primetime" in my book.

  npm ERR! code 1
  npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep
  npm ERR! command failed
  npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js
  npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:199
  npm ERR!                     zipFile?.close();
  npm ERR!                             ^
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'