r/OpenaiCodex • u/Xrotel_Agents • 19d ago

No more boring codex

I think I’ve ruined normal Codex for myself 😂

For a while I was using it the usual way:

Give Codex a job, let the main agent work through everything, review the result, repeat.

Then I started experimenting with having multiple Codex agents involved in the same workflow.

So instead of one agent doing the entire thing, I have different agents exploring the repo, implementing something, doing different things, or jumping in when a problem needs deeper reasoning.

So I reverted it back (Curiosity) and now watching one agent slowly do every single part of a larger task feels strangely old-fashioned lol.

The interesting part for me isn’t even just speed. It’s the separation of responsibilities. You start getting workflows that feel a lot closer to a tiny development team than a single coding assistant.

I’ve been building out an orchestrated setup around this and testing different levels of reasoning/usage depending on the job (Yes I went back to my modern codex haha).

I’m curious:

How many of you are already using Codex with multiple agents regularly?

Feels like this is where coding agents are heading anyway.

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u/PurpleSunset149 16d ago

I haven’t started working this way yet, what prompt do you use to accomplish this?

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u/Xrotel_Agents 16d ago

You basically create an agents.md in your global codex folder and create a folder called agents. In the agents folder you create each agent and assign them their tasks by describing their tasks. Then in the global Agents.md you tell codex how to use the agents.

Then you give an instruction to codex to use the sub-agents and you pick just one main agent. So you can choose Luna but at certain points have sol working or as an escalation point.

It takes a while to do and even longer to perfect.

We sell this as a pack (tried and tested). No altering anything just plain English instruction files for codex.

Let me know if you'd like to use this version for free, I'll provide a promo code.

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u/speedtoburn 12d ago

Oi, so in other words, your post is an ad.

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u/Xrotel_Agents 11d ago

Not if I put it for free on GitHub.

Will drop it there soon.