diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0a8ca60..b7efcb4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,6 +7,3 @@
 [submodule "test/test_helper/bats-assert"]
 	path = test/test_helper/bats-assert
 	url = https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert.git
-[submodule "test/codex"]
-	path = test/codex
-	url = https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex
diff --git a/test/codex b/test/codex
deleted file mode 160000
index e35aec7..0000000
--- a/test/codex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit e35aec78700f529ddf0c9c6764b77927a0cc0165