... built CodexControl after using multiple Codex

... built Codex Desktop Custom Models because experimenting with alternative

... built CodexPigeon around a simple concern: changing an AI coding agent s instructions while it is already in the middle of a turn can make the agent s state harder to reason about. Instead of injecting a message into active work, CodexPigeon

... tokens on the same task and hit several errors along the way, a 5.5x gap for the same deliverable. Separately, other community head-to-heads put Claude Code at roughly 3-4x the token use of Codex on comparable work, so depending which pair you're comparing, the "efficient" tool flips. Zero-shot capability and token frugality don't always come from the same tool. On raw benchmark performance, Claude Opus 4.6 sits around ... ... powering Codex

... just finished a pretty substantial UI refresh for CodexBar Lite and I'm using it myself before shipping it. The functionality is largely the same. The focus this time wasn't adding features, it was making the app feel more polished while staying true to its original philosophy: Minimal Privacy-first Native macOS Before I hit release, I'm curious: If you were testing a menu bar app, what's the first thing you'd notice or judge? Visual polish ... ... changing, that gets noticed long after the UI has stopped being interesting. What it does when it can't get the data. This is the one I'd judge hardest, because it's a usage tracker specifically. If the Codex

... auth logic, i read every line of those diffs twice. everything else i just skim now, which honestly took longer to get comfortable with than switching tools did. Comment from Cecil Pang(@cecil_pang): I'd been using Codex and switched to Claude Code this week. It is too early to tell, but so far I have more success with Claude Code. Comment from Andreas Jablonka(@andreas_jablonka): claude exclusively. chatgtp free tier is too low credits to be useful ... ... times new Roman. I stayed a customer because of how much better it was though. Comment from Lucas Pols(@lucasjpols): @ben_kahan  Yes, I know you are! Comment from Lucas Pols(@lucasjpols): @nzouat  What pushed you toward Codex

... maintain Agent Only, an open-source MCP memory service for coding agents. The problem I kept hitting was repetitive troubleshooting: a fix discovered in one Codex or Claude session disappeared when the next session started. Agent Only gives agents a small shared workflow to search, reuse, record, and review verified troubleshooting notes. The smallest install is: npx -y agent-only-mcp For Codex

... been using Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw for different kinds of work: Codex

... Daily reality: Claude Code in one pane, Codex in another, Cursor in a third, plus a few shells. An agent stops and waits for "yes". By the time I find the right pane, 20 min gone. Just me? What's your setup notifications, layout tricks, or you've accepted the tax? Comment from Ashir Murtaza(@ashir_murtaza1): 35 minutes later: Oh that agent was waiting for me. I now keep one dedicated pane for anything that needs human approval. Comment ... ... bottleneck finding the right terminal and remembering what each agent was doing is. Comment from Kidder(@hellokidder01): @sansa_grey  Same The "universal" part is what got me too I didn't want a different setup for Claude Code vs

... past few months I've been juggling three AI coding agents Claude Code for architecture, Codex for implementation, GLM for review. The pain wasn't any single one of them. It was the switching cost. Every time I switched engines I had to re-explain the project: which framework, which conventions, where the old conversation left off. None of them remembered what the others knew. I'd waste 10 15 minutes per switch re-loading context, and half the time ... ... started building a small thing for myself. Local desktop app. Lets me run all three engines from one window, with a shared memory layer underneath. The thing I underestimated: persistent memory is the whole game. Once Claude and Codex

... worker. For UI testing, a remote headed browser is not just a convenience. It changes the debugging loop. Instead of asking "what did the script think happened?", you can ask "what did the user actually see?" ### Harness Code vs Local Agent Harness Another important decision is where the agent capability should come from. One option is to build the entire reasoning layer yourself: call an LLM API directly, manage prompts, retries, tool calls, screenshots, JSON parsing, and safety rules. That ... ... gives maximum control, but it also means the test harness becomes an AI platform project. The alternative

... just shipped plugins, MCP, and skills for ToughTongue AI. What this means: Your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can now create practice scenarios, refine them from real session data, and analyze team performance - without leaving the terminal. Setup (one command): Claude Code: claude plugin install toughtongue@toughtongue-skills Codex

... Codex Content Ops turns one product update into platform-specific drafts, publishing checks, local status tracking, metric snapshots, and lead-routing copy. This note was produced by the workflow itself. This is an early dogfooding workflow, not a full Product Hunt launch yet. Public write-up: https://www.cnblogs.com/aimalou/... ...

... Pasting a screenshot into a terminal agent is messier than it should be. On macOS Codex wants Ctrl+V, not Cmd+V. Claude Code on Windows wants Alt+V. Some terminals just eat the image. So people end up saving the shot to disk and referencing the path by hand, which kills the flow. What's your real workflow, drag and drop, the --image flag, save-and-reference, something better? Trying to map how people actually do this. Comment from ...

... already use, such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Claude Desktop, and Codex

... bridge debugging. When bridge mode is enabled, you can open a live recorder from the connection popup and inspect the original request body, bridge request body, upstream response body, and bridge response body. Improved local bridge proxy bypass for Codex launches, including local NO_PROXY coverage and Codex

... manage my subscriptions. 3. Cursor with Codex plugin : This helps me get more usage of GPT 5.5 with the Codex

... beta feedback, people have been burned by tools that state guesses as fact, so "Verified" vs "Monitor Only" ended up mattering more than any feature. I'll take a genuine look at AI Hive. Comment from Waqas Baloch(@waqas_baloch4): Building Glint , a neutral trust and control layer for AI coding agents. Glint plugs into the agents teams already use (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex

... channel turns to noise and you mute it, and then the one that mattered dies muted. Restraint is the feature. One thing worth flagging since you named Cursor specifically: needs-approval detection is genuinely harder there than in Codex. Codex

... web/IM surfaces. What changed: - Added per-agent launch settings, so each agent can have custom terminal arguments and agent-protocol arguments inserted into the generated launch command - This covers Codex sandbox / permission-mode / YOLO-style workflows without making the feature Codex

... window into a live grid and run four different agents from four different vendors at once, each in its own real terminal, next to your dev server and tests. - Different agents, one screen. Claude Code planning on the left, Codex implementing on the right, Gemini reviewing below, your npm run dev streaming logs in the corner. No more alt-tab roulette to find which agent is stuck. - Any layout 2-up, 3-up, or a 2 2 grid. Drag ... ... through the Hive MCP. Comment from Andrii Krugliak(@theuniverseson): Four agents in split panes fixes a real annoyance, the alt-tab roulette is exactly the friction I hit. What I'd want next is shared context between panes, so Codex

... files with +/- counts, a file viewer with syntax highlighting, and Commit / Push / Create PR sitting right there. If an agent is running, the commit buttons hand the work to it. It writes the message and pushes. You also get a VSCode-style Find in Files and a Cmd+K command palette. Sub-agents you can actually read When an agent spawns helpers over MCP, they now nest under whoever started them with proper tree connectors. Multi-agent runs stopped being ... ... flat soup of names. A few more things - Grok CLI is a first-class agent now, next to Claude, Codex

... mostly about making the daily local-agent workflow feel less fragile: launch the right coding agent, point it at the right provider profile, keep API translation out of your global config, and get back to coding. What changed: Better Codex launch support, including trusted launch hook handling. More reliable API Bridge routing for provider-backed profiles. Cleaner compatibility across OpenAI Chat, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic-style request shapes. Improved handling for reasoning/tool-call histories, especially around DeepSeek-style and API Bridge ... ... Bridge and session code were split up internally, which should make the next round of provider/agent work easier. The bigger direction is still the same: VibeAround is becoming a local-first command center for AI coding agents. Claude Code, Codex

... VibeAround v0.5.15 is live. This release is about making the local-agent workflow more reliable across more model providers and coding agents, especially if you use Gemini, Vertex AI, DashScope, DeepSeek, Kimi/Moonshot, or Codex with API Bridge-routed third-party models. What changed: - Gemini CLI is now a first-class connection target. - Added Google Gemini / Vertex AI provider profiles, including OpenAI-compatible Gemini API and Vertex endpoints. - Added Gemini GenerateContent and streamGenerateContent ... ... Bridge routing. - Image/file attachments now work more predictably through the API Bridge, with clearer validation errors and same-endpoint model suggestions. - Normalized attachment content across OpenAI, Anthropic, DashScope, DeepSeek, Kimi/Moonshot, Gemini, and related coding-agent API Bridge paths. - Added Codex

... failure mode is usually not syntax. It is workflow drift: lost context, subtle logic bugs, repeated fixes that create new problems, weak verification, and code that becomes hard to maintain later. RCS is a workflow/runtime layer around Codex for Roblox creators. It does not try to be another magic code generator . The goal is to make AI-assisted Roblox work more structured and easier to trust. What it does today: gives a Roblox-first workflow from brief -> plan ...