Support Scoop installations in `codex update` on Windows
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
Codex CLI on Windows
What feature would you like to see?
Problem
codex update does not detect installations managed by Scoop on Windows.
For example, after installing Codex with Scoop, codex update returns:
Error: Could not detect the Codex installation method. Please update manually
The working update command is:
scoop update codex
Requested improvement
Please detect Scoop-managed installations (for example, when the executable resolves through scoop/shims or scoop/apps/codex/current) and make codex update either:
- Run or delegate to
scoop update codex, or - Clearly report that Codex was installed with Scoop and provide the exact update command.
This would make the native update command work consistently for Windows users and reduce confusion about the installation method.
Additional information
Installed version before the update: 0.147.0. Scoop updated it successfully to 0.153.2.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the codex update installation-method detection and reproduce the failure on Windows with a Scoop-managed installation. Trace how executable paths such as scoop/shims or scoop/apps/codex/current are handled, then verify that the command either invokes scoop update codex or reports that exact command to the user.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell, rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100