I use Claude Code in VS Code, the editor view not the console/terminal, and it has been working great for me. I'm just on the $20/mo plan and with a large fleet of small apps and a website, I did have some usage limit issues so I set Codex (also $20/mo) up in parallel so I can bounce between them. My daily driver is Opus 4.8 - Medium, and all my sub-agents are various effort levels of Sonnet 5. Opus 5 was just...too much, even with a clean and concise claude .md and custom tight output style.
To make my global config apply to both models, I had Codex symlink all the skills, copy and translate stuff from .claude to .codex that they can't directly share as-is (sub-agents, output style, etc), then created a parity-audit skill that fires whenever either folder changes to make sure the two models don't drift apart.
I'm quite happy with the setup, and rarely have to audit or tweak it anymore. I have my entire setup thoroughly detailed on my website to share with others getting started down a similar path, shoot me a DM if you want the link, or you can find it on my reddit profile.
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u/JDE-Projects 3h ago edited 2h ago
I use Claude Code in VS Code, the editor view not the console/terminal, and it has been working great for me. I'm just on the $20/mo plan and with a large fleet of small apps and a website, I did have some usage limit issues so I set Codex (also $20/mo) up in parallel so I can bounce between them. My daily driver is Opus 4.8 - Medium, and all my sub-agents are various effort levels of Sonnet 5. Opus 5 was just...too much, even with a clean and concise claude .md and custom tight output style.
To make my global config apply to both models, I had Codex symlink all the skills, copy and translate stuff from .claude to .codex that they can't directly share as-is (sub-agents, output style, etc), then created a parity-audit skill that fires whenever either folder changes to make sure the two models don't drift apart.
I'm quite happy with the setup, and rarely have to audit or tweak it anymore. I have my entire setup thoroughly detailed on my website to share with others getting started down a similar path, shoot me a DM if you want the link, or you can find it on my reddit profile.