A desktop workstation for wrangling Codex and Claude agents

What it does

Codexia is a Tauri v2 desktop app that wraps OpenAI’s Codex CLI and Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI inside an IDE-like workspace. It provides a React frontend for editing files, browsing project trees, and drafting prompts, while a Rust backend manages agent processes, git worktrees, and a headless Axum web server. The app runs fully locally—data stays on your machine—and can operate as a standard GUI or headless server broadcasting agent updates over WebSocket.

The interesting bit

Instead of reimplementing the agents, Codexia orchestrates the official CLIs you already have installed, integrating Codex through its app-server JSON-RPC interface and Claude through a Rust SDK bridge. That makes it a thick, opinionated shell: a desktop GUI that doubles as a local agent server with a full HTTP API for threads, files, git, and terminal access.

Key highlights

• Task scheduler for recurring agent jobs and a headless mode with HTTP API and WebSocket stream.
• Git worktree management, an IDE-like editor, and built-in preview for PDFs, spreadsheets, and CSVs.
• MCP server marketplace and agent skills marketplace (the README does not detail their current inventory).
• Process isolation with per-agent file and network permissions; telemetry is opt-in and disabled by default.
• Dual-licensed under AGPL-3.0 and a commercial license for closed-source or SaaS use.

Caveats

• Requires Codex CLI and Claude Code CLI to be installed separately; it is not a standalone runtime.
• Community forks have added SSH integration, Node.js backends, and reasoning events—capabilities not present in the main repository.

Verdict

Worth a look if you already use Codex or Claude Code and want a local GUI, task scheduling, or a headless API to script around. Pass if you need a self-contained agent runtime that does not require installing separate CLIs first.