# OpenAI CLI: Call the API Directly From Your Terminal > Source: > Published: 2026-10-23 16:16:03+00:00 OpenAI published its official CLI on October 22 — not Codex, not a coding agent, but a Go binary that calls any OpenAI API endpoint directly from your terminal. If you have ever written a ten-line Python script just to test a single prompt, or wrestled with curl headers and jq pipes to inspect a batch result, there is now a better option. What This Is (and Is Not) Every developer who reads “OpenAI CLI” will picture Codex CLI, the AI coding agent. That assumption is wrong here. The new openai-cli is an API client — the aws-cli equivalent for […] The post