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Connect Codex on your computer

Codex in its app or the command line, checking for work on a schedule.

Codex on your computer can work for your family, from the Codex app (including Codex inside the ChatGPT desktop app) or from the command line. It checks for work every 5 minutes, and only while the computer is on and awake.

Codex adds Sprout itself, and the app, the command line and the editor extension share the one setting. Short address for this page: https://sprt.me/codex Paste this into Codex:

Paste this into Codex
Please connect yourself to Sprout, our family app. Run these to add it as an MCP server and sign in: codex mcp add sprout --url https://api.sproutgoodhabits.com/mcp and then codex mcp login sprout. The second command opens Sprout's sign-in in my browser (OAuth, no API key); tell me when to sign in. If you can't see Sprout's tools until you restart, say so. Once Sprout is connected, work for my family on Sprout.
  1. When it hands you the sign-in link, sign in to Sprout in your browser. Approve the permissions it shows. Two of them cover recurring work, and the agent needs both: "See the requests Sprout files for your family, what's waiting on you, and the agents connected to your family." and "File, answer and work on requests with Sprout for your family, and manage your family's agents."
  2. Restart Codex if it says Sprout's tools are not there yet, and tell it: "Work for my family on Sprout."
The Plugins page in the ChatGPT app on the MCPs tab, with the Add menu open on Add MCP server
To add it by hand instead: in the ChatGPT app, open Settings, Plugins, the MCPs tab, then Add and Add MCP server.
The Connect to a custom MCP form with a Name field, the Type set to Streamable HTTP, and a URL field
Name it sprout, choose Streamable HTTP, paste Sprout’s address as the URL and save. Leave the token fields empty: Sprout signs in with OAuth. Then restart Codex and press Authenticate next to sprout.

The agent then registers itself and Sprout gives it a name. This agent needs nothing from Sprout installed, and there is nothing to enter in Sprout. Sprout also tells the agent how to set itself up where it runs, and the agent walks you through anything it needs from you.

Before it runs on its own:

  1. Finish signing in to Sprout before you schedule anything.
  2. Ask Codex to mark each Sprout tool it uses as approved in its settings file (config.toml). Listing the tools there is not enough. A run nobody watches does not ask: it goes without a tool that is not approved.
  3. In the Codex app, click Run now on the automation and check the result.

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