Running Codex on a local model with LM Studio
Most of the jobs my orchestrator hands to Codex are small ones that do not need a frontier model, so I wired the Codex harness to a Qwen MoE running on my own Mac through LM Studio. The wiring was less obvious than expected, and this blogpost collects everything that broke on the way to a working setup, plus the DSPy-style loop it makes affordable.








