A Practical Guide to Running Codex CLI with a Custom Responses Provider

<p>Changing an API base URL is not enough to prove that Codex is using the provider you intended.</p> <p>Codex is an agentic client. It needs more than a model that can return

<p>Recently, I've faced a need to use an LLM model through a gateway. In my case, it was LiteLLM. LiteLLM is an AI gateway where you can manage your LLMs setup in one place, track

<p>If you've wanted to use <strong>Claude Code</strong> or <strong>OpenAI Codex</strong> without paying for expensive API usage, <strong>FreeModel.dev</strong> provides an easy

<p>I pay for Claude Code. I use it every day, I built skills for it, and I think it's worth the money. I'm saying this upfront because this post is going to show you how to get a

<h2> Introduction </h2> <p>I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to

<p>When a Dify workflow fails after adding an OpenAI-compatible provider, it is tempting to debug the whole workflow.</p> <p>That is usually too much surface area.</p> <p>Before

<blockquote> <p>TL;DR</p> <ul> <li> <code>ccgate</code> is an OSS CLI that delegates permission prompts in Claude Code and Codex CLI to a separate LLM (Haiku by default).</li>