codex-manager 12.0.0

Codex account snapshot manager

📦 Codex Manager

The ultimate CLI tool for managing OpenAI Codex account snapshots, tracking quotas, and ensuring seamless workflow continuity.

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⚡ Quick Start

Get up and running in under 5 minutes.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• uv (recommended for fast dependency management)

Install

Clone the repository and install using uv:

git clone https://github.com/dhruv13x/codex-manager.git
cd codex-manager
uv pip install --system -e .

Run

Verify the installation by viewing the CLI help menu:

codex-manager --help
# Or use the shorter alias:
cm --help

Demo

Here's a quick 5-line workflow to backup your current account, view recommendations, and switch to a new one:

# 1. Take a live snapshot of your active Codex account state
cm backup --cloud

# 2. Check cooldown statuses for all accounts
cm cooldown

# 3. Get the smartest recommendation for the next account to use
cm recommend

# 4. Switch to a new account using the 'auth-only' method
cm use --email [e-mail]

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✨ Features

Core

• Live Status Tracking: Automatically parses live Codex /status output to capture account email, quota text, and weekly reset timestamps.
• Smart Recommendations: Recommends the optimal account to use next based on calculated cooldowns and real-time metadata.
• Full State Recovery: Backup and restore full Codex runtime states (auth.json, history, logs) via *.tar.gz archives and *.metadata.json.

Performance & Reliability

• Offline & Fallback Mode: Employs an emergency --without-status-check fallback that gracefully estimates cooldowns even when the live tracker is temporarily unavailable.
• Lightning Fast UI: Employs the rich library for beautiful terminal output, tables, and status animations.

Security & Cloud

• Cloud Synchronization: First-class support for Backblaze B2 (and S3-compatible buckets) for remote backup metadata and archive storage.
• Safe Operations: Every modifying command supports a --dry-run flag to safely simulate actions without touching your files.

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🛠️ Configuration

Codex Manager prioritizes configuration via environment variables and CLI arguments for flexibility.

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Default	Required
CODEX_MANAGER_HOME	The primary home directory for the manager config and backups.	~/.codex-manager	No
CODEX_HOME	The target directory where Codex state resides.	~/.codex	No

Note: You can also place a config.json inside your CODEX_MANAGER_HOME to persist configuration settings.

Key CLI Arguments

Most commands support these primary flags. Use cm <command> --help for a complete list.

Flag	Description
--dry-run	Safely preview the changes without modifying local or cloud state.
--cloud	Enable Backblaze B2/S3 cloud capabilities for the command.
--email <email>	Specify a target account email for use, restore, or listing.
--backup-dir <dir>	Override the directory used for reading/writing backups.
--without-status-check	Bypass live capture and calculate cooldowns statically (+7 days).
--auth-only	During use or backup, target only identity/auth files instead of the full state.

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🏗️ Architecture

Directory Tree

~/.codex-manager/ (CODEX_MANAGER_HOME)
├── backups/                # Local archives and metadata
│   ├── backup_1.tar.gz
│   └── backup_1.metadata.json
├── config.json             # Persistent local configurations
└── cooldown.json           # Registry caching overall account cooldowns

High-Level Data Flow

1. Capture: cm backup or cm status reads live text from a tmux session running Codex.
2. Process: The CLI parses the text to build a state model (Quota, Cooldown, Email) and packages the ~/.codex directory into an archive.
3. Store: Archives and adjacent JSON metadata are saved locally and pushed to the cloud (if configured).
4. Evaluate: When cm recommend or cm cooldown is invoked, local and cloud metadata are fetched, evaluated against real-time, and ranked to find the optimal active account.
5. Switch: cm use restores the selected account's data into the ~/.codex home, rotating your session seamlessly.

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🐞 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Error Message	Cause	Solution
TokenExpiredError: TOKEN EXPIRED	The active Codex session token has expired.	Re-authenticate in Codex manually, or run with --without-status-check to bypass.
Could not resolve Cloud (B2) credentials.	Missing B2 credentials for cloud sync.	Pass --b2-id and --b2-key flags, or ensure your credentials are set up.
No backups found in Cloud for <email>.	The requested account isn't backed up to the specified bucket.	Run cm list-backups --cloud to verify the email and backup availability.

Debug Mode

While the CLI does not have a single --debug flag, you can often reveal more information by viewing the full exception traces or by utilizing the built-in doctor command:

cm doctor

The doctor command verifies your dependencies, runtime directories, and validates the status parser setup.

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to Codex Manager! Please review our CONTRIBUTING.md (coming soon) before submitting PRs.

Dev Setup

To set up your local development environment:

# 1. Install all development dependencies
uv pip install --system -e .[dev]

# 2. Run the tests (Ensure 90%+ coverage)
python -m pytest tests --cov=src --cov-report=term-missing

# 3. Format and lint the codebase
uv run ruff check --fix src/ tests/
uv run black src/ tests/

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Plugin Architecture: Allow custom plugins to manage other CLI authentication tokens.
• Enhanced Cloud Coverage: Add direct first-class integrations for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob.
• Automated Rotation Daemon: A background worker to automatically rotate accounts when token limits are reached in real-time.