# Install opencodex with Homebrew Cask Proxy that connects AI coding agents to other LLM providers. Version 2.97.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install cask:opencodex ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew Cask (100%): ```sh brew install --cask opencodex ``` Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** cask:opencodex - **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.97.0 - **Source summary:** Proxy that connects AI coding agents to other LLM providers - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-11-04 - Package-manager version: 2.97.0 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## From the blog - [Who should choose the model?](https://pkg.so/blog/2026-11-01/who-chooses-the-model/) ## Project history and usage OpenCodex is a local proxy and routing layer that lets AI coding clients use multiple hosted or local model providers through their existing interfaces. ### Project history OpenCodex was created as a local universal-provider proxy for AI coding agents. Its scope expanded to translate between OpenAI Responses, OpenAI-compatible, and Anthropic-style interfaces while preserving streaming, tool calls, reasoning data, and images. Later development added provider presets, OAuth login, model combinations, account pooling, sub-agent routing, sidecars for search and vision, a management dashboard, desktop packaging, and explicit integrations for multiple coding clients. ### Adoption history OpenCodex broadened from a Codex-oriented local proxy into a gateway supporting Codex CLI, Codex App and SDK workflows, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Grok Build, and other compatible clients. It is distributed as a desktop application, standalone executable, and npm-installed command-line tool. The project maintains provider presets, adapters, client integrations, and a dashboard so users can change model backends while retaining their preferred coding-agent interface. ### How it is used Users run the initialization wizard, select a provider and model, supply an API key or OAuth login, and optionally let OpenCodex inject its local endpoint into Codex configuration. The proxy can then be started as a foreground command or managed background service. Advanced workflows route different models or tasks to different providers, define failover or weighted combinations, expose routed models to sub-agents, and inspect live requests through the dashboard. Stopping or ejecting the integration restores native Codex routing. ### Why package nerds care OpenCodex exemplifies the rapidly growing package layer between AI coding agents and model providers. It turns protocol translation, provider authentication, model discovery, routing, failover, and account selection into a locally managed service. Its reversible edits to Codex configuration and catalogs are especially relevant to package maintainers: starting the proxy integrates it with existing clients, while stop, restore, and eject operations remove generated routing state without deleting the user's native configuration. ### Timeline - Initial project: OpenCodex provided a local provider proxy for Codex workflows. - Subsequent development: Support expanded to Claude Code, desktop clients, provider OAuth, routing combinations, account pools, sidecars, and managed sub-agent catalogs. ### Related projects - OpenAI Codex is a primary client whose configuration and model catalog OpenCodex can manage reversibly. - Claude Code is another officially documented client and can route its inference traffic through OpenCodex. - Provider services and local model servers sit upstream of OpenCodex through built-in or custom adapters. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for opencodex. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: $OPENCODEX_HOME/config.json (default ~/.opencodex/config.json), $CODEX_HOME/config.toml (default ~/.codex/config.toml), $CODEX_HOME/opencodex.config.toml (default ~/.codex/opencodex.config.toml), $CODEX_HOME/opencodex-catalog.json (default ~/.codex/opencodex-catalog.json) - Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.opencodex\config.json, %USERPROFILE%\.codex\config.toml, %USERPROFILE%\.codex\opencodex.config.toml, %USERPROFILE%\.codex\opencodex-catalog.json ## Credential files - Unix: $OPENCODEX_HOME/auth.json (default ~/.opencodex/auth.json) - Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.opencodex\auth.json ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API - **Tap:** homebrew/cask - **Full Token:** opencodex - **Names:** OpenCodex - **Depends On:** Macos: >=: 13 - **Artifacts:** App: 1, Target: 1, Uninstall: 1, Zap: 1 - **Auto Updates:** yes - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no ## Related links - [Homebrew Cask packages](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata. - [Homebrew Cask applications](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-applications/) - Cask artifact metadata includes an app bundle. - [codex](https://pkg.so/cask/codex/) - Codex is a primary supported client: OpenCodex can inject its proxy endpoint and synchronized model catalog into Codex, then restore Codex's native configuration when ejected. Sources: · - [claude-code](https://pkg.so/cask/claude-code/) - Claude Code can use OpenCodex as its inference gateway, allowing its normal agent interface to reach the providers and routed models configured in OpenCodex. Sources: · - [claude-code-router](https://pkg.so/brew/claude-code-router/) - Choose Claude Code Router for a gateway centered on Claude Code profiles and routing; choose OpenCodex for broader managed integrations spanning Codex, Claude Code, desktop clients, account pools, and sidecars. Sources: · ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/opencodex.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/opencodex.yml) ## Sources - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph