This action needs serious investment — it's falling far behind claude-code-action

The numbers speak for themselves

I'm a paying OpenAI customer actively using openai/codex-action in production workflows. I want to keep using Codex. But the state of this action compared to Anthropic's equivalent makes it increasingly hard to justify.

Side-by-side comparison

What this means in practice

• No releases. We're pinning @v1 and hoping for the best. Claude Code Action has 30 tagged releases with changelogs.
• 38 commits total. Claude Code Action has 448. That's nearly 12x the development velocity.
• 5 contributors. Claude Code Action has 71. The community is building with them, not here.
• Last commit was November 2025. That's almost 3 months of silence. Claude Code Action ships updates daily.
• GPT-5.3-Codex just launched today and this action's hardcoded default model is still gpt-5.2-codex. We have to manually specify model: gpt-5.3-codex because the action hasn't been updated.

What we need

1. Active maintenance — Regular commits, releases, changelogs
2. Feature parity — Progress tracking, structured outputs, better integration with GitHub's PR/review APIs
3. Community engagement — Respond to issues, accept PRs, build in the open
4. Same-day model support — When a new model drops, the action should support it out of the box

The ask

Sam, please put a full team on this. The Codex CLI and cloud product are incredible — but the GitHub Action is the bridge between Codex and every CI/CD pipeline in the world. It deserves the same love.

Please don't force me to switch to Anthropic. I want to stay, but you have to meet us halfway.

The issue concerns the openai/codex-action repository but names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the repository structure and current action configuration, then clarify which requested area is in scope: releases, model support, progress tracking, structured outputs, or GitHub PR integration. Done criteria are not defined in the issue.