Codex logs your hours in Half5. You just keep working.
Codex works with Half5 via MCP: OpenAI Codex in the terminal and editor. Connect once, and your assistant logs time to the right customer and project.
- Log in with your Half5 account
- No installation needed, works in the cloud
Connect Codex in a few minutes.
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Add Half5 to Codex
Add the server to your Codex configuration file (~/.codex/config.toml) and sign in using codex mcp login half5. Menus and commands vary by Codex version, but the address stays the same.
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Sign in
You open Half5 in your browser, sign in with your Half5 account, and grant access. Unknown clients appear with a warning.
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Ask Codex to log time
For example: "Log 2 hours for the login fix." Half5 finds the customer and project for you. The entry appears in Half5 as a regular time log.
https://app.half5.com/mcp [mcp_servers.half5]
url = "https://app.half5.com/mcp" Log time where you already work with Codex.
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Log work without IDs
A description and the time are enough. Half5 picks the client and project.
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Recognize client from the repository
Half5 looks at the repository name, your previous entries, and your clients. After you confirm an entry, Half5 remembers which repository belongs to which client.
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Search, view, and edit
The agent searches clients and projects, retrieves your entries, and can edit or delete them. Only your own entries; it can't read your timeline.
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Any MCP client
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and connectors in Claude.ai or ChatGPT. You'll see a warning before approving an unknown client.
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Standard entries
Agent entries show up in your overview and are included in approvals and invoicing, just like your other hours.
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Revoke access
In Half5, you can see which agents are connected and revoke access at any time.
Half5 works with any MCP client.
Claude • Claude Code • ChatGPT • Cursor • VS Code • Windsurf • Gemini CLI