Oh My codeX (OMX)
Hooks, agent teams, and persistent state for the OpenAI Codex CLI
Expert verdict
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3-1The Panel's Take
Oh My codeX (OMX) is an orchestration layer that sits on top of OpenAI's Codex CLI and adds the features that Codex itself left out: lifecycle hooks, multi-agent team coordination, persistent project state, and a headless display framework. Think of it as oh-my-zsh, but for your Codex agent runtime. The project's core innovation is its team runtime: running 'omx team 3:executor "refactor auth to OAuth"' spawns three parallel agents, each working in an isolated git worktree to avoid merge conflicts. Since v0.13.1, worktree isolation is on by default. OMX also ships 33 specialist agent prompts and 36 workflow skills out of the box — including deep interview, planning, and code review flows — plus a '.omx/' directory that persists project state between sessions. Built by Yeachan Heo and hitting 26.9k GitHub stars, OMX is MIT licensed and installable in seconds: 'npm install -g @openai/codex oh-my-codex && omx --madmax --high'. It requires tmux on macOS/Linux for team features. The project has become the de-facto community layer for serious Codex power users who want more than a raw CLI.
The reviews
“Parallel agents in isolated git worktrees is the feature every Codex power user has been waiting for — no more merge conflict hell when you run multi-step tasks. The 36 built-in workflow skills mean you're not starting from scratch. Install this the moment you start using Codex CLI seriously.”
“Twenty-six thousand stars in three weeks is exciting but also a yellow flag — trending repos get abandoned fast, and this is a one-person project with a single maintainer. Also, tmux as a hard dependency for team features is going to break in CI/CD and containerized environments. Wait for v1.0 stability before putting this in a real workflow.”
“OMX is the community layer that turns Codex from a demo into a development runtime. The pattern of community-owned orchestration shells layered on top of AI CLIs is going to become standard — and the projects that nail the UX now will define what 'agentic coding' means for the next cohort of developers.”
“The concept of skills-as-folders with a SKILL.md metadata file is an elegant design pattern that any non-developer can understand and remix. This lowers the bar for customizing your agent runtime without writing framework code — that's a meaningful UX step forward for AI tooling.”
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Oh My codeX (OMX) verdict: SHIP 🚀 3 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/oh-my-codex-omx-agent-teams-hooks-codex-cli-mit-2026
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