Providers

A provider profile tells cox which CLI to drive and what each crew tier and role may spend and call. manifest.toml's [providers] table lists the providers. cox install --provider <name> (default claude-code) checks the name against that table and checks that its CLI is on PATH; the profile it writes always names the shipped src/cartridges/providers/claude-code.yaml.

Provider	Status	What the profile supplies
Claude Code	supported	The claude CLI on PATH, and the per-tier model, effort and budget ceiling for each seat.
Codex	planned	A profile still needs to name the Codex CLI on PATH and map Coxswain's seat tiers to Codex's own model and budget controls.
Gemini	planned	A profile still needs to name the Gemini CLI on PATH and map Coxswain's seat tiers to Gemini's model and budget controls.
local	experimental	providers/local-oss.yaml declares the capabilities the harness reads and maps the cheap tier to a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with standard and deep still on Claude; no runner drives it yet, so the install works only as a declaration.

Only Claude Code is installable today. cox install --provider refuses any other name: provider 'codex' is 'planned', not supported.

A team's own profile lives outside the checkout, in <home>/providers/ or the workspace; see The provider profile.