OpenAI's Codex Security CLI: How Agent-Driven Vulnerability Scanning Handles Validation, Patching, and CI Integration

OpenAI just released Codex Security as an open-source TypeScript SDK with 11K+ stars. It's not another static analysis tool. It's an agent-driven security scanner that orchestrates parallel discovery workers, validates findings with LLM reasoning, generates patches, and verifies fixes autonomously. This is what happens when security tooling becomes agentic rather than rule-based. Traditional SAST tools run pattern matchers and dump alerts. Codex Security runs a multi-stage pipeline: discovery ag