Connect Codex to Octen
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 Octen
A preset of real Octen operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Octen
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
Octen
15 toolsQuickly find likely URLs, optionally including highlights and page content.
Search ranked web pages with domain, date, language and content filters.
Search news articles and optionally group related stories into subjects.
Search companies, people, business news and entity cards.
Find local businesses and places near a location.
Search images using one text or image input.
Find videos matching one text input.
Extract clean text or Markdown from up to 20 URLs.
Convert a batch of texts into embedding vectors.
Convert text, images or video into multimodal embedding vectors.
Generate a non-streaming chat completion, optionally with tools.
Decompose a question, search the web and synthesize a cited answer.
Decompose a query and return web results grouped by sub-query.
Submit an asynchronous Search Agent task; retrieve its result separately.
Retrieve a Search Agent task's status, answer, citations and usage.
About Codex
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