Connect Codex to Elai
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Codex, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Elai
A preset of real Elai operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Elai
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Codex first calls in. Codex connects when a session starts — run codex, or restart a running one (in the Codex app, Restart).
Run this in your terminal. The Codex app shares its config, so it gets the server too
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Tools Codex gets
Elai
19 toolsRead the admin, workspace, organization, plan and minute balance.
Read a page of videos. Continue with page + 1 until page equals pages.
Read a video, including slides and render status.
Create a video from prepared slides; rendering is a separate action.
Update a video's name, tags or public-link visibility.
Delete the selected video.
Queue rendering. Acceptance does not mean an MP4 is ready; poll Get Video.
Copy a video or template into a new video.
Translate a video into the selected voice-catalog language and locale.
Create a story video from plain text, HTML or a source URL.
Read language groups and their supported voices/providers.
Read avatars available to the workspace.
Read an avatar and its variants.
Read private workspace templates and the public slide-template catalog.
Read a slide template's full content.
Read a page of media assets. Continue at offset + limit when hasMore.
Read the video's exports to an external destination.
Read video edit history. Provider failures can time out.
Read custom voices belonging to this workspace.
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