Four Small Tools I Built to Make Daily Codex Less Annoying
A ChatGPT→Codex handoff bridge, multi-account config sharing via symlinks, a menu-bar status app, and an imagegen API with provider fallback.
Daily Codex creates small frictions: multi-account setup drift, staring at a terminal during long runs, clumsy handoff from ChatGPT research into Codex. I fixed the ones that bit me. Repo: lnkd.in/dj4JpjQM.
codex-chatgpt-bridge
Local MCP bridge so ChatGPT Developer Mode can read, search, and edit a repo, then write a handoff plan you run with execute-handoff in the Codex terminal. Less copy-paste between planning chat and agent.
codex-linker
Multiple Codex accounts need different auth.json files but usually the same config and skills. Linker keeps auth separate and symlinks the shared pieces. No token proxying or dumping.
codex-status-bar
Hooks write state under ~/.codex/statusbar/; a small Swift app polls and shows thinking, tool use, permission waits, and completion in the menu bar. Long jobs no longer require living in the terminal tab.
codex-imagegen-api
Built-in imagegen hits rate limits hard in batches. This package exposes CLI, library, and local HTTP modes with provider fallback, plus controls for prompt, count, aspect, references, and layout.
Each tool updates on its own. Clone only what you need. None of them replace Codex; they remove the boring glue around it.
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