crazymsn/codex-plugin

codex-plugin is a small open-source project whose purpose is to unlock two features in the Codex desktop application for users who sign in with an API key rather than through a ChatGPT account. Those features are called Fast or Speed mode, and Plugins. Normally the Codex desktop app only shows them when you log in with ChatGPT OAuth, and this repository ships a local patch that flips the right gates so they appear in API-key mode as well. The patch can optionally also adjust Codex's remote-SSH settings so the Zed editor appears as a remote-capable target in the Open With menu. The README is upfront that this is an unofficial local patch. It modifies the installed Codex app on your own machine and turns off some Electron integrity fuses so the modified bundle can load. The project recommends only using it on machines where that tradeoff is acceptable. The main artifact is a Codex skill called patch-codex-fast. The recommended install path is to run a single command, npx skills add crazymsn/codex-plugin -g -a codex -y, which drops the skill into your global Codex skills folder. After that, inside Codex you ask for patch-codex-fast either by name or in plain English. The skill then walks Codex through a doctor check of paths and tools, backs up the original app.asar, extracts and patches the bundle, re-signs the app on macOS, asks you to restart Codex and verify that Fast mode, Plugins and the Google Chrome row under Computer Use are now visible, and triggers a rollback if launch or verification fails. Requirements include the Codex desktop app, Node with npx, Python 3, and platform-specific tools: codesign from Xcode on macOS, PowerShell on Windows. The patch itself uses two Electron utilities, @electron/asar and @electron/fuses, which npx may download the first time. Default install paths for both operating systems are documented, and command-line flags such as --resources-dir, --app-path, --no-stop and --zed-remote let you override locations or skip the stop-Codex step. The README also lists exactly what the patch changes. The fast auth gate, the fast hook early return, the fast model check, the plugins sidebar gate, the API-key detector and the connector availability check are all rewritten so that they no longer assume the user must be signed in with ChatGPT. The optional Zed patch adds supportsSsh: true to Codex's bundled Zed target so that Zed appears under remote Open With. Direct command-line use of the underlying Python script is also documented for people who would rather run the patch outside the Codex skill system. The project includes tests under tests/ and is laid out so that skills.sh can find the canonical skill package at skills/patch-codex-fast/.