REVERSE ENGINEERING CODEX CLI TO GET GPT-5-CODEX-MINI TO DRAW ME A PELICAN

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OpenAI's open-source Codex CLI tool was reverse-engineered using Codex itself to create a command that allows direct prompting of the GPT-5-Codex-Mini model, ultimately getting it to (poorly) generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle and uncovering the API endpoint used by the tool.