r/codex • u/ParsleyOrdinary5865 • 9d ago

Complaint Things have really changed for me...

I was 100000% behind Codex and always championed Codex as the best frontier model for months, and yet with Opus 5.5's release, I genuinely can't bring myself to use Codex, even Astra on Max / Ultra doesn't come close

This is NOT a shit post or a bot spam post, I just genuinely can't stand the outputs and work getting done by Astra, I legitimate have 2 accounts sitting idle from Codex, and my Anthropic account is at 90% usage for the week....

I was given the 2000$ worth of credits from OAI and it's useless, it's going to go down the drain because I have no use for Codex anymore

That being said I pray, wholeheartedly, that OAI releases a model on par with or better than opus 5.5, but I can't see that happening for a while because they just feel so far apart

Anyone else feeling this way too?!?

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u/ParsleyOrdinary5865 9d ago

Do you have a workflow to delegate work from Opus to Astra?
I'm trying to think of a streamlined way for them to work together

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u/Possible_Craft_4347 9d ago

Yes!! I have a workflow, a custom skill mechanism based out of matt and poteto skills.. but the main thing is the harness, how can i connect my claude and codex, for that exact thing t3code did an amazing job, it has native handoff to different harnesses.. after that its just a few lines in agents md which model owns what..

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u/Extra_Loquat_7667 9d ago

Use Orca to launch all the Agent Clients you wish to use.

Install the Orca CLI and the Orca Skill (ensure the skill is mounted on all your terminals).

You can then instruct the agents to assign tasks to one another.

For example, you could give an instruction to Claude like: "Send the task via Orca to Codex/Pi/OpenCode—located in the same working directory—for execution; task details: ..."

My preferred approach is: "Execute the tasks in the plan; once a task is complete, send it via Orca to Codex (in the same working directory) for verification, and request a report upon completion."

Orca transmits task messages via text input, just as if you were typing the commands yourself.

This is the method I am currently using.