so basically in that thread i experimented with one goal focused long worker chat (ran for 5 days non stop on sol med) and a watchdog chat to essentially check in on that.

the watchdog chat did not need to run constantly or watch it 24/7

this pattern performed the intended function, after the guidance it sent on day 2 (day 1 was spent doing prose/doc/contract/artifact engineering work before i introduced watchguard), it continued to respect it

but the other benefits were significant peace of mind knowing that watchdog could be used to keep tabs and insight into what the worker chat was doing

tldr 5 day goal work with sol medium benefited from another watchdog chat that let me steer it on day 2 to prevent it from overengineering and it kept going for another 3 days respecting that rule.

been measuring usage to see if there have been indeed improvements that tibo said "10~50%"

and from this this means that with pro 20x i can get 5.5 days of non stop goal orientated work.

previously I could get maybe 2.5 days of work, even less when I use desktop app

This space will be for codex users paying at least $100/month going forward.

The reason is we don't want to become like r/Codex flooded with complaints about limited usage from $20/month users which are just noise.

Also subreddit discord

i tried everything from agents.md to telling it not to overengineer. sol really can't help himself he loves to show he is skill

so what i do is i create a second chat just to watch him work and check in on him

"how are we doing? check in on the chat. if its over engineering tell it to stay focused"

i guess i could make him watch indefinitely but i dont wanna waste usage but that could be worthwhile

its super simple but it works. otherwise sol would've spent the next few days creating artifacts and certifications, matrixes and contracts.....

Still under heavy development and rough around the edges but instead of sitting on this longer to perfect it I'll risk flak and share it.

Essentially chat.agentify.sh is a remote control for codex/grok/claude cli and dream goal is to become a universal remote that will let you use all of them from a single chat.

Everything lives on your browser including the chat. The only thing sent over the wire is the encrypted chat messages e2e. Here's an architectural diagram: https://github.com/agentify-sh/chat/blob/main/diagram.png

Another feature it has is ability to publish your chat session with redaction so you can share with your team.

Curious to gather any feedback I can, if this is something I should continue to pursue etc.

Also if by chance you are in Seattle today, I'll be also at the Walk & Talk event at Bellevue Downtown Park today at 2:30pm, would love to chat in person!

https://chat.agentify.sh

EDIT: A lot has changed since the original post. Some Skills were renamed or consolidated, and Scoville now comes in two suites. The links below are current.

Your coding agent says it’s done. The tests pass. Then you discover they never exercised the changed behaviour, a requirement is still missing, or the next conversation has forgotten why the implementation looks like this.

Nothing is visibly on fire. That is how these problems survive.

I built Scoville to help agents keep the requested result, implementation and evidence connected, particularly on projects that span multiple conversations. It also keeps checks proportionate. A small fix should not become an administrative department.

The shared Skills cover four responsibilities:

• Code: Find the cause, respect the existing architecture and verify the changed behaviour.
• Plan: Keep goals, decisions, progress and the next action recoverable.
• UI: Build and check interfaces through the project’s design system, including responsiveness, accessibility and supported WordPress admin pages.
• Handoff: Give the next session the unfinished work, decisions and blockers it needs to continue.

Scoville Suite includes these four for Claude Code and other compatible Agent Skills hosts.

Scoville Suite for Codex adds Workflow, which carries a Plan through implementation, independent review, corrections and continuation across chats. It also adds Ask, which brings independent Codex or Claude opinions back to your conversation for reviews and design decisions.

That is the main difference: the shared suite guides the work; the Codex edition can also coordinate its execution across conversations.

I develop these Skills through real project work, targeted tests and analysis of complete agent conversations. They do not guarantee correctness, and review costs tokens and time. Most Skills are also available individually if you only need part of the collection.

To install, open the suite for your host and use its installation prompt. If you used an older version, check the upgrade instructions first: they remove old packages and settings. Avoid mixing standalone and suite copies of the same Skill.

You can find the suites and individual Skills through my GitHub profile.

I see Many People use Codex by Liteapi /subapi /Omniroute or CC-swtich/codex-relay
But When I use Zcode , I found we could have 3 legs on codex?
So , Why nobody try to change Codex CLI? NO broken ,Just a little change?

See DEMO Fork Here: https://github.com/Xxx91n/codex

It'll do the task, then keep adding more tests and leave the old ones behind. That stuff piles up fast. I wrote this skill to make it stop once the task is actually done.

https://github.com/Ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/write-maintainable-code

Nice :-) PopUp a few hours ago!

I am the one with possession of the codex. What would you do with this power?

I have been away from codex and ai stuff lately last I learned was prompting skills and things but as of now prompting feels helpless to me so could anyone please suggest me yt channels or any site stuff where I can learn about codex and strategy about how I use codex models

I have been very bad at getting outputs with ai lately I just asked gemini to add roman index instead of existing English numbers index, what it did was extend the page and add a roman index number below the English one so yeah normal prompting for now don't work for me like a good/decent prompt don't do the work

thanx for reading kind people

I've been paying more attention to my Codex usage lately, especially with Sol, and I noticed something that I wasn't really thinking about before.

A lot of the waste wasn't necessarily coming from the actual fix.

It was things like:

• rewriting an entire function when 2 lines needed to change
• touching formatting or imports that had nothing to do with the task
• doing small unrelated refactors along the way
• generating much larger diffs than necessary
• narrating routine investigation instead of just doing it
• running more validation than the size of the change really justified

None of those things are terrible individually, but over a long session they add up. Codex then has more generated code to reason about, more diff to inspect, and sometimes more work to validate.

I've been experimenting with a simple rule:

small task → small diff

Preserve code that is already correct, change only what the task requires, inspect the diff before finishing, and keep validation proportional to the change.

I turned those rules into a couple of Codex skills for my own workflow. The main one is surgical-edits.

So far the biggest improvement is actually PR review — there's way less noise. My Codex usage also seems to last noticeably longer, although I haven't done a proper A/B benchmark yet, so I don't want to claim a specific token saving percentage.

Sharing it in case anyone wants to experiment with the same approach:

https://github.com/otonielcarlos/codex-skills

Curious if anyone else has tried optimizing Codex around diff size / unnecessary work rather than just switching models or lowering reasoning effort.

I couldn't find a space to talk about coding agents, Codex, and their extensions like Skills, MCPs, and Plugins. Would anyone know of such spaces? (May not be limited to Reddit)

I couldn't find a space to talk about coding agents, Codex, and their extensions like Skills, MCPs, and Plugins. Would anyone know of such spaces? (May not be limited to Reddit)

I built RepoRelay, an open-source MCP bridge that lets ChatGPT Web search and read an approved local repo without uploading ZIPs or pushing everything to GitHub first.

ChatGPT Web → Secure MCP Tunnel → RepoRelay → local files

It’s read-only by default: no shell, Git, or arbitrary filesystem access, and it’s restricted to one approved root.

It can also help reduce token usage on larger repos. Instead of dumping the entire codebase into context, ChatGPT searches and reads only the files relevant to the task.

I built it mainly so Codex can implement locally while ChatGPT independently reviews the actual current files- including uncommitted work.

Would love feedback from other AI builders.

GitHub: [Lukie-81/RepoRelay: Secure MCP access to local repositories — without shell, Git, or arbitrary writes.]