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OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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514 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 16 Apr 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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udbhavs ◴[16 Apr 25 19:25 UTC] No.43709349[source]▶
Next, set your OpenAI API key as an environment variable:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Note: This command sets the key only for your current terminal session. To make it permanent, add the export line to your shell's configuration file (e.g., ~/.zshrc).

Can't any 3rd party utility running in the same shell session phone home with the API key? I'd ideally want only codex to be able to access this var

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1. primitivesuave ◴[16 Apr 25 20:15 UTC] No.43709858[source]▶
You could create a shell function - e.g. `codex() { OPENAI="xyz" codex "$@" }'. To call the original command use `command codex ...`.

People downvoting legitimate questions on HN should be ashamed of themselves.

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2. udbhavs ◴[17 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43720470[source]▶
That's neat! I only asked because I haven't seen API keys used in the context of profile environment variables in shell before - there might be other common cases I'm unaware of