I’d wait. Remember when Chromium downloaded and installed binary blobs.

Also in the news: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expa...

    "The American private sector is the most innovative and
    technologically advanced in the world, and its scale,
    speed, and capacity secure a critical offensive cyber
    advantage for the United States."

> and Codex specifically is open source.

Since we now have three "Codex"es, I think it's worth specifying you're talking about codex-cli/tui. Codex the hosted version and Codex the GUI are both fully proprietary I think (besides the codex-cli/tui parts they use, I'm guessing mainly the app-server stuff).

This app is NOT open source

Is this the same thing that broke out of the sandbox and into HuggingFace?

Or we are just assuming that was a PR stunt, which it almost certainly was.

Either way, this shit isn’t getting near my system.

if it is open source why no exist any fork? why I can remove openai model default from instalation?