Let Codex search the web

interactive sessions

// what it does

--search turns on live web search for the run so Codex can pull current docs and APIs instead of relying on training data. Persist it with the web_search config key, whose values are disabled, cached (the default), indexed, and live.

// shell

$ codex --search "find the current recommended way to configure Vite"

// gotcha

The default web_search is cached, not live — without --search or web_search="live", answers about fast-moving libraries can be stale.

// resources