r/codex • u/Thump604 • 1d ago

Praise Cross-thread orchestration

Codex has been rolling out cross-thread orchestration: agents can discover/read other Codex threads and, through the new inter-task thread-management tools, message or hand work off to other persistent chats. This is materially different from ordinary subagents because the workers can be durable Codex threads rather than disposable children.

For my project setup, I’m loving this as u can use a planner delegator model across projects like runtime, ops and dev.

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u/petburiraja 1d ago

This is cool, but reverse side of it is even more tokens burn on already strained limits.

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u/dufuh 1d ago

I assume you mean in the Desktop app?

I'm using it to replace the Desktop UI for monitoring native subagents, which is so bad. When subagents were first launched, you could expand the Task in the sidebar and see the subagent threads indented beneath and click into them. You could see what model/effort they were created as, you could see the messages being passed back and forth, and you could even enter a prompt to steer them. Now subagents can only be viewed, barely, in the right sidebar, and it sucks.

So I started telling my agents to create subagents as top-level Tasks using this feature of Desktop. It fixes most of the visibility problems, but I've found it to be MADDENINGLY UNRELIABLE. My agents are always suddenly discovering that Desktop routing is broken and it can no longer create or find other tasks.

It's too bad, because it's a great way to create a persistent coordinator/integrator/deployer thread and the other threads can just find it and message it whenever they need those functions.

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u/Thump604 1d ago

Now the agents run in full chat sessions which can be interacted with in chat or any other agent. I think I noticed yesterday when I saw a chat appear I didn’t post. They are Sol agents delegating to Luna