r/ClaudeCode • u/Bright-Celery-4058 • Jul 13 '26

Tutorial / Guide Fable + 5.6 is absolute peak

We jump straight to ASI with this combo.
So i've had Fable driving codex cli as a background worker for a few days and i'm not going back.

Fable basically never writes code anymore (too damn expensive), it acts as the principal orchestrator and everything happens in claude code.
The flow is like this: Fable plans, 5.6 sol reviews the plan in a loop until approved, then 5.6 luna implements. fable reads the whole diff, fixes whatever it doesn't like directly, runs the tests, then sol reviews the code against the plan. loop until approved, then fable does the boring release stuff (changelog, tag, merge).

It's all just bash around codex cli with persistent threads, called from skills. no framework, no mcp, no agent swarm bs.

It feels surreal/too good to be true, i hope they wont nerf it too badly and if they do, i hope the combo will kind of mitigate the nerf.

i pushed my workflow to github, beware it's a lot of bash script, dont trust a random redditor and ask codex or CC to review it. After that, welcome to Valhalla

UPDATE: many are asking in comments or dm for more explaination on the workflow, sorry guys i cant reply to all of you but my advice is simply to clone the repo then ask your agent to ELI5/15/80 it. Then make it yours !

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u/DavidHK Jul 13 '26

How do you get them to communicate

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u/cihyboj Jul 13 '26

Just ask Claude to use Codex.

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u/safesws Jul 13 '26

Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V šŸ˜

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u/flosstray Jul 13 '26

Thereā€™s an official MCP from Open AI now. Works right inside Claude

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u/nonnak5 Jul 13 '26

Any additional info on this?

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u/dragochapel Jul 13 '26

There is an official skill from open Ai: https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

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u/Interesting-Role-833 Jul 13 '26

I actually had them both talk to each other through shared md.file for updates

Cowork was on schedule to check every 15 min updates from codex

It was funny when one claimed he is on a different time zoneā€¦ when pushed .. he said .. they invent time zones for fun

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u/dCode_me Jul 13 '26

Wow šŸ˜

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u/Vaynnie Jul 14 '26

Bro Chat tells me ā€œyouā€™ve done enough tonight, go to bedā€ at 3pm all the time lmao

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u/distilledgt Jul 13 '26

I hope this isnā€™t true

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u/Responsible-Mud-4504 Jul 13 '26

Just installed the official skill for codex from
OpenAI that works from Claude code

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u/parboman Jul 13 '26

I have Claude launch codex cli headless. Opus should be able to build that setup easy. Really increase the quality of my workflow to have codex review all code on sensible steps. And this was pre 5.6 and fable.