Install Subagent MCP in Codex
What you need first
- Codex, installed.
- uv, which
gives the
uvxcommand the server starts with.
Steps
- Run this in a terminal. It writes the server into
~/.codex/config.toml, which the Codex CLI, its IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app share.
codex mcp add subagent-mcp -- uvx subagent-harness-mcp==1.0.31 serve - Start Codex again and type
/mcp: the server is listed.
Check it worked
Ask Codex: List the tools of subagent-mcp.
If it does not start
- spawn uvx ENOENT
- uv is not on the PATH that Codex sees. Install it, or write the
full path of
uvxin the config.