OpenAI Codex CLI fundamentals for code analysis, review, and validation. Use when (1) executing codex commands for code review/analysis, (2) configuring models (gpt-5.2/gpt-5.1-codex-max/codex/codex-mini), sandbox modes (read-only/workspace-write), or reasoning effort (low/medium/high/xhigh), (3) managing Codex sessions with resume, (4) integrating Codex into automation scripts. Do NOT use for orchestration patterns (use codex-claude-loop instead).