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Cold start time slow on macOS #164

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I'm consistently seeing 5+ second startup times for codexctl on my mac devices:

time codexctl help
usage: Codexctl [-h] [--verbose] [--address ADDRESS] [--password PASSWORD] {install,download,backup,cat,ls,extract,mount,upload,status,restore,list} ...
Codexctl: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'help' (choose from install, download, backup, cat, ls, extract, mount, upload, status, restore, list)
codexctl help  0.25s user 0.17s system 6% cpu 6.808 total

macOS 15.7.1
MacBook Pro (M1 Pro)
codexctl 2026-01-26 04:29, mac arm64 binary from the release.

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