MicroCodex - Ultra-lightweight coding agent in C++
Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary
MicroCodex is an ultra-lightweight coding agent that runs locally in your terminal. Written in C++23, it delivers a binary under 1MB, making it incredibly fast and resource-efficient. It offers one-shot prompts, an interactive terminal UI, local coding tools, durable conversations, and automatic context compaction. You can use it with your ChatGPT plan, and it supports Codex skills. Installation is a simple curl command on Mac or Linux. Experience a coding agent that's both powerful and minimal.
MicroCodex is an ultra-lightweight coding agent that runs locally in your terminal, written in C++23, with a binary under 1MB.
- fractorial
I’m not quite sure why the harness itself needs to be small. Isn’t the system prompt and management of system prompt the bit you want lightweight?
- orliesaurus
i love the idea, but you also need to maintain it long term: in today's world what is the best practice to do that... do you spin up an agent anytime codex-cli updates and mirror the updates in c++ and push a new release? or idk... set up an automated process that does this on a worker on CF in a sandbox when npm updates @openai/codex?