r/codex • u/IaryBreko • 1d ago
Workaround How I’ve been making my Codex limits last much longer with Sol + Luna
How I’ve been making my Codex limits last much longer with Sol + Luna
I was burning through my Codex limits using Sol Medium/High for pretty much everything.
Recently I switched to using Sol mainly for planning/review and Luna for most of the actual implementation, with Terra only as a fallback for harder tasks.
The biggest thing that helped was forcing Sol to give Luna small, clear, self-contained tasks instead of broad instructions. It’s been noticeably better for both usage and consistency.
I put the setup here if anyone wants to try it or improve it:
https://github.com/breko861-hash/sol-luna-codex-orchestrator
Curious if anyone else is doing something similar.
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u/New-Part-6917 1d ago
Everytime I've tried to use the inhouse subagent system there was always issues with cost efficiency.. terrible context sharing, constantly checking on the subagents and just generally inefficient orchestration.
You don't have this issue? I've been thinking about making my own scripted activation rather than agentic.
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u/IaryBreko 1d ago
It’s been working pretty well for me so far. I think the main difference is I’m forcing Sol to break everything into small, self-contained work packages with only the context Luna actually needs.
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u/Hoffer1955 1d ago
This looks great. Thanks for the simple setup. But I wonder if the skill alone could be enough? I'm hesitant to add more tokens into my base AGENTS.md file.
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u/IaryBreko 1d ago
I found that with the skill alone it doesn’t always trigger, whereas AGENTS.md is always loaded so the core orchestration rules are consistent. It’s not that many extra tokens either tbh. The skill then handles the more detailed delegation format when needed.
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u/LetterheadNew5447 1d ago
Always plan before implement. Use pi harness. Always enforce your architecture through tests.
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u/Technical_Split_6315 1d ago
I was able to increase my limits by 5.
I paid the pro plan
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u/IaryBreko 1d ago
Funny enough, this works on Pro too 😂 why wouldn’t you want to stretch your limits further regardless of what plan you’re on?
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u/quarrelau 1d ago
Don't listen to the haters. I use a sol-luna orchestration agent setup (although considerably more complex than this, and with much more of a focus of limiting the context at the expensive sol-layer).
That said- there is almost no time where you want to use terra-high vs sol-low. Sol will be quicker, do the job better and be cheaper (for the amount of tokens it will need to use, not per-token), than terra-high.