diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
index 57b2d8d5..a9323e45 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke-codex.lock.yml
@@ -1376,7 +1376,6 @@ jobs:
             -- /bin/bash -c 'export PATH="$(find /opt/hostedtoolcache -maxdepth 4 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true && INSTRUCTION="$(cat /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt)" && codex ${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX:+-c model="$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX" }exec --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check "$INSTRUCTION"' \
             2>&1 | tee /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
-          CODEX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
           CODEX_HOME: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config
           GH_AW_MCP_CONFIG: /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/config.toml
           GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX: ${{ vars.GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CODEX || '' }}
@@ -1384,7 +1383,6 @@ jobs:
           GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS: ${{ env.GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS }}
           GH_DEBUG: 1
           GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY: ${{ env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY }}
-          OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY || secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
           OPENAI_BASE_URL: http://api-proxy:10000
           ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: http://api-proxy:10001
           RUST_LOG: trace,hyper_util=info,mio=info,reqwest=info,os_info=info,codex_otel=warn,codex_core=debug,ocodex_exec=debug