codex-profiles is a dependency-free Bash CLI for developers who use Codex CLI or Codex Desktop across more than one account, team, client, school, or experiment. It launches Codex with a named CODEX_HOME so each profile keeps its own auth, config, sessions, connectors, plugins, caches, logs, and Desktop state.

Use it when personal, work, school, client, and test Codex contexts need to stay separate without copying auth.json tokens or mixing local Desktop state.

Current release: v0.6.0.

Install:

npm install -g codex-profile

brew install Ducksss/tap/codex-profile

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ducksss/codex-profiles/main/install.sh | sh

nix run github:Ducksss/codex-profiles

Quick start:

codex-profile init personal

codex-profile init work

codex-profile login personal

codex-profile login work

codex-profile cli personal

codex-profile cli work exec "run tests and summarize failures"

codex-profile app personal ~/Dev/my-project

codex-profile app work --instance ~/Dev/client-project

Highlights:

- one CODEX_HOME per profile: default -> ~/.codex, work -> ~/.codex-work

- CLI workflows on macOS and Linux

- Codex Desktop launch on macOS

- opt-in parallel Desktop windows with app --instance

- profile diagnostics with list, status, doctor, and logs

- in-shell activation with env, shell-init, and use

- safe non-secret config cloning with clone-config

- JSON output and shell completions for automation

- source-style upgrade with dry-run preview

- AI-readable project page, llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap, and GEO docs

Security boundary:

codex-profiles does not read, copy, print, parse, or migrate auth.json tokens. It only sets CODEX_HOME before launching Codex. It separates Codex local state, not the whole OS: SSH keys, GitHub CLI auth, browser cookies, keychain items, npm state, and git credentials still belong to the same OS user.

It is MIT-licensed, community-maintained, and not an official OpenAI project.