When should I use this over Codex? Is this supposed to be called by other tools/agents?

Codex = agent harness

OpenAI CLI = wrapper around API

> wrapper around API

aka curl? :-/

to be fair `gh` works so much better for me than crafting curl requests (even with LLMs)

Curl with token usage so it’s better.

that was my assumption, maybe you use Claude but want it to use OpenAI image generation or something. this got a physical shrug out of me.