diff --git a/internal/agent/codex.go b/internal/agent/codex.go
index 2888868d..7cdcf14b 100644
--- a/internal/agent/codex.go
+++ b/internal/agent/codex.go
@@ -472,12 +472,18 @@ func codexIn(at place) *Agent {
 			own = say(group(p, options(catalog.Codex(), "")))
 		} else {
 			own = say(group("OpenAI", options(ownCodex(), "")))
-			// on magpie API, Codex's own models are reached through magpie,
-			// on its ChatGPT account there: picked so, set so (#701)
-			if api() {
+			// with magpie Codex's provider (magpie API, or a magpie model
+			// picked with no ChatGPT sign-in beside it), Codex's own models
+			// are reached through magpie on a ChatGPT account there: picked
+			// so, set so (#701). One magpie doesn't serve is picked off
+			// magpie, straight to OpenAI, and says so: it said via magpie,
+			// and picking it took Codex off magpie at once (#1269)
+			if api() || asProvider() {
 				for i, o := range own {
 					if id := codexOwnViaMagpie(o.Value); id != "" {
 						own[i].Label, own[i].Value, own[i].Ref = o.Value, id, id
+					} else if !api() {
+						own[i].Via, own[i].Direct = false, "OpenAI"
 					}
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/internal/agent/codex_provider_own_test.go b/internal/agent/codex_provider_own_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc13a014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/agent/codex_provider_own_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// With magpie Codex's provider, a model of Codex's own on the Agents page
+// says what picking it does (#1269, shenghsi: "gpt-5.5 经 magpie", and
+// Codex was taken off magpie the moment it was picked). With no ChatGPT
+// account in magpie to serve it, it goes straight to OpenAI and says so;
+// with one, it is picked as magpie serves it and Codex stays on magpie.
+func TestCodexProviderOwnModelSaysItsPath(t *testing.T) {
+	ownOf := func(a *Agent) []Option {
+		var out []Option
+		for _, o := range a.Fields[0].Options(nil) {
+			if o.Group == "OpenAI" && (o.Label == "gpt-a" || o.Value == "gpt-a") {
+				out = append(out, o)
+			}
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+	cache := []byte(`{"models":[{"slug":"gpt-a","display_name":"A","priority":1}]}`)
+
+	t.Run("no ChatGPT account", func(t *testing.T) {
+		home, read := codexHome(t, `{"OPENAI_API_KEY":"sk-x"}`, "")
+		os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(home, ".codex", "models_cache.json"), cache, 0o644)
+		cx := codex(home)
+		if err := cx.Fields[0].Set("fake/m1"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if cfg := read(); !strings.Contains(cfg, `model_provider = "magpie"`) {
+			t.Fatalf("magpie isn't Codex's provider:\n%s", cfg)
+		}
+		own := ownOf(codex(home))
+		if len(own) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("Codex's own gpt-a: %+v", own)
+		}
+		if o := own[0]; o.Via || o.Direct != "OpenAI" || o.Value != "gpt-a" {
+			t.Fatalf("picking gpt-a takes Codex off magpie, yet it reads %+v", o)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("ChatGPT account out of allowance", func(t *testing.T) {
+		home, read := codexHome(t, `{"tokens":{"access_token":"x","id_token":"x.e30.x"}}`, "")
+		os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(home, ".codex", "models_cache.json"), cache, 0o644)
+		codexUsedUp = func() bool { return true }
+		cx := codex(home)
+		if err := cx.Fields[0].Set("fake/m1"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if cfg := read(); !strings.Contains(cfg, `model_provider = "magpie"`) {
+			t.Fatalf("magpie isn't Codex's provider:\n%s", cfg)
+		}
+		own := ownOf(codex(home))
+		if len(own) != 1 || own[0].Value != "codex/gpt-a" || !own[0].Via {
+			t.Fatalf("Codex's own gpt-a, served by magpie: %+v", own)
+		}
+		if err := codex(home).Fields[0].Set(own[0].Value); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if cfg := read(); !strings.Contains(cfg, `model_provider = "magpie"`) || !strings.Contains(cfg, `model = "codex/gpt-a"`) {
+			t.Fatalf("picking it took Codex off magpie:\n%s", cfg)
+		}
+	})
+}