# codex-cli-mcp-slim

> A thin, auditable MCP server wrapping the Codex CLI (codex exec). Same tools as the deprecated `codex mcp-server`; forward-compatible with future CLI flags via extra_args passthrough.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/codex-cli-mcp-slim/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/tksfjt1024/codex-cli-mcp-slim
- repository: https://github.com/tksfjt1024/codex-cli-mcp-slim
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, codex, codex-cli, openai, claude, anthropic, ai, llm, coding-agent
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:codex-cli-mcp-slim

### Description (declared)

# codex-cli-mcp-slim

A thin, auditable [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server wrapping the [Codex CLI](https://github.com/openai/codex) (`codex exec`).

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## Why

`codex mcp-server`, the command that let other MCP clients call Codex, is
deprecated, and its removal has been merged upstream
([openai/codex#42993](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/42993)): releases up
to 0.153.x still ship it, later ones will not. Its replacement, the Codex app
server, speaks its own JSON-RPC protocol rather than MCP. This server keeps the old
integration point alive: it exposes the same two tools, `codex` and
`codex-reply`, and runs `codex exec` underneath. `codex exec` is the Codex CLI's
non-interactive mode: one prompt in, the agent works on its own, one final
message out.

When you add an MCP server to your AI coding tool, every prompt and code snippet
you send flows through that wrapper. Most CLI-wrapping MCP servers are small,
individually maintained packages, and recent supply-chain incidents
(`xz-utils`, `postmark-mcp`, the npm `chalk`/`debug` compromise) show that
"small and useful" is not the same as "safe to trust blindly."

This project takes the opposite stance: instead of asking you to trust it, it
tries to be **easy to audit**.

- **Single file** — the whole server is `src/codex_cli_mcp_slim/server.py`,
  readable end-to-end in one sitting
- **One third-party dependency** (`mcp`) — minimal supply-chain surface
- **Faithful CLI mapping** — every ty…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (1, derived)
- code.generation (0.75, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/codex-cli-mcp-slim/ (first seen 2026-09-09T12:27:06.834Z)

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