Run Codex with low-touch planning and port reservation
A commenter has Codex execute mostly on its own with human planning and review, including a portbroker that reserves and injects a port.
What they did
The commenter describes a split workflow: ChatGPT handled planning, strategy, versioning discipline, and writing the next prompt, while Codex did the implementation, with outputs manually copied back and forth between the two in extended-thinking chats. In a similar setup, another commenter added a small tool called portbroker so an agent could reserve a free port, log it, and inject it into $PORT automatically, reducing manual environment handling during parallel runs.
How it went
They say this cut down prompt drift and made multi-agent or parallel local development more stable and predictable. The main drawback mentioned is that the handoff is still manual, with long threads causing slowdown and occasional need to start fresh sessions.
Worth knowing
The practical catch is the copy-paste loop between ChatGPT and Codex, plus needing to reset when threads get "sludge" from growing too long.
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Codex did the implementation
Codex did the implementation
ChatGPT handled planning, strategy, versioning discipline, and writing the next prompt, while Codex did the implementation
A commenter has Codex execute mostly on its own with human planning and review
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- Oct 16, 2026