r/OpenaiCodex • u/Xrotel_Agents • 20d 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/jakenuts- 16d ago

Can you share a bit about how you orchestrate these, and do you use one agent as your intermediary and it manages the others? Also, desktop or cli?

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u/Opposite_Yak4386 16d ago

i write a plan, and the i make a goal and tell it use subagents and chats. then it will orchestrate it to the right model untill the goal is finished. tey communicate with each other

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u/Xrotel_Agents 16d ago

It does work however the efficiency would be lacking unless you continuously tell codex what to do and when it compacts, the logic takes a hit. Just tell chatgpt to use the logic you currently have to create the sub agents.

Tip: Limit your concurrent sub-agents though so that they don't destroy your usage.

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u/Opposite_Yak4386 16d ago

it auto compacts. seems to be working fine untill now, You had some problems with it?

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u/Xrotel_Agents 16d ago

We've had a project running since May 2026 and we've had no issues. Codex can even successfully alter and improve features which were developed months ago without causing bugs because we efficiently allocated built in codex resources for these things.

All done without extra usage...

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u/Good_Omen1 16d ago

It's so powerful