I’m a developer currently using the Codex Cloud Agent and would love to see broader SCM support beyond GitHub. In particular, I (and many others in the developer community) host private repositories on self-hosted GitLab instances for various reasons, including data sovereignty and deeper DevOps integration.
While I understand Codex CLI can be pointed at any local repo, that solution doesn’t offer the seamless, cloud-integrated experience of the Codex Cloud Agent. Moreover, using the CLI entails additional API usage costs, and for many of us already using IDE-native tools like Cursor, that cost isn’t justified for local use cases.
It would be incredibly valuable to have Codex Agent support GitLab repositories — particularly self-hosted ones — with the same functionality currently available for GitHub. This could include:
Authentication via GitLab PATs or OAuth
Support for browsing, querying, and editing GitLab repos
Codebase Q&A over private/self-hosted repos
Please consider expanding support in this direction. It would significantly enhance the usability of Codex for a broader segment of professional developers.
I hope its not the case of OpenAI signing a contract with Microsoft only allowing them to integrate with GitHub, I’d much rather trust my repo to GitLab..
We would also like to see the support of gitlab. Currently we have to mirror repos to github and then copy changes via git apply to terminal to work with Codex on Gitlab.
Having GitLab support is critical for organizations and users who simply cannot or are not allowed to use GitHub. This is a huge blocker in adoption and use of Codex for many of us.
This is extremely upsetting still. This dependency on Github is creating enormous consternation on many levels here for many people who just cannot utilize Github for various reasons.