affaan-m/ECC · error · Error

Codex CLI is not installed

Error message

Codex CLI is not installed

What it means

Thrown by probeCodex when spawning the codex binary for the version/features probe fails with ENOENT — the Codex CLI executable is not on PATH. The reviewer cannot run without the external CLI installed.

Solutions

1. Install or pin the required tool version stated in the message, then retry.

When it happens

Trigger: Triggered when review-with-codex.js rejects the current invocation: Codex CLI is not installed

Common situations: Occurs while running skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js with invalid arguments, missing flags, or a failing external dependency; the guard at skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js:119 aborts the command with this message.

AI-assisted analysis of affaan-m/ECC@06c5e118c4 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/108b8118b2fcf919. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js:119

    '--ignore-rules',
    '--strict-config',
    '--skip-git-repo-check',
    '--sandbox', 'read-only',
    '--cd', tempDir,
    '--color', 'never',
    '--config', 'shell_environment_policy.inherit="none"',
    '--config', 'skills.include_instructions=false',
    '--config', 'web_search="disabled"',
    '--config', 'mcp_servers={}',
    '--output-last-message', outputFile,
    '-',
  ];
}

function probeCodex(spawn, args, options, label) {
  const result = spawn('codex', args, options);
  if (result.error) {
    if (result.error.code === 'ENOENT') throw new Error('Codex CLI is not installed');
    throw new Error(`Codex ${label} probe failed: ${result.error.message}`);
  }
  if (result.status !== 0) {
    const detail = (result.stderr || '').trim().split('\n').slice(-1)[0];
    throw new Error(`Codex ${label} probe failed${detail ? `: ${detail}` : ''}`);
  }
  return (result.stdout || '').trim();
}

function verifyToollessSupport(dependencies = {}) {
  const spawn = dependencies.spawnSync || spawnSync;
  const options = {
    cwd: os.tmpdir(),
    env: buildEnvironment(dependencies.env || process.env),
    encoding: 'utf8',
    timeout: 5_000,
    maxBuffer: 256 * 1024,
    windowsHide: true,

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