It worked for me after I configured mise. I needed the mise setup in both `.zprofile` and `.zshrc` for Codex to pick it up. I think mise sets up itself in one of those by default, but Codex uses the other. I expect the same problem would present itself with nvm.

I.e. `eval "$(/Users/max/.local/bin/mise activate zsh)"` in `.zprofile` and `.zshrc`

Then Codex will respect whatever node you've set as default, e.g.:

    mise install node@24
    mise use -g node@24

Codex might respect your project-local `.nvmrc` or `mise.toml` with this setup, but I'm not certain. I was just happy to get Codex to not use a version of node installed by brew (as a dependency of some other package).