I’ve been using Codex CLI heavily after moving off Claude Code and built a containerized starter to run Codex in different modes: timers/file triggers, API calls, or interactive/single-run CLI. A few others are already using it for agentic workflows. If you want to run Codex securely (or not) in a container to test the model or build workflows, check out https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/codex-container.

It ships with 300+ MCP tools (crawl, Google search, Gmail/GCal/GDrive, Slack, scheduling, web indexing, embeddings, transcription, and more). Many came from tools I originally built for Claude Desktop—OpenAI’s MCP has been stable across 20+ versions so I prefer it.

I will note I usually run this in Danger mode but because it runs in a container, it doesn't have access to ENVs I don't want it messing with, and have it in a directory I'm OK with it changing or poking about in.

Headless browser setup for the crawl tools: https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/gnosis-crawl.

My email is in my profile if anyone needs help.

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marktolson 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looks good but there is no way I'm installing powershell as a dependency.

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kordlessagain 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I've kept the codex-container.sh version going for this eventuality.

Those scripts are for running the docker command with all the ENV vars and settings. Whatever does that does NOT have to be Powershell if you don't want it to be.

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cachius 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not?

	▲	kordlessagain 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Poweshell is awesome because no external tools are needed to modify dates, or do math, or generate JSON or XML, both of which are first-class citizens. Also, in powershell things are objects not strings, so passing something along with a \| is much more powerful. Still, if someone doesn't like something, there's always bash!

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derrasterpunkt 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m just at the beginning but I will try this out, thanks!

	▲	kordlessagain 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Let me know if you need anything!

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pertymcpert 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I assume those MCP tools are a library and not actually expected to work all at the same time right?

	▲	kordlessagain 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, you can draw from it. There is a config file you can use to edit to "install" or "remove" them from the build. You can also just ask the agent to do it.