codex-delegate

Codex Delegate

When to Use

• You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate codex implementer (OpenAI Codex) and then review its diff yourself.
• The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. This skill lets you hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the OpenAI Codex CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Codex does the typing in its own sandbox; you verify and commit.

Nothing here is specific to one orchestrating agent. The loop needs only the ability to run a shell command and read a file, so it works the same whether you are Claude Code, OpenCode with a selected model, or any comparable agent. (It is designed for and run on Claude Code; treat other orchestrators as designed-for, not yet proven.)

When NOT to use this

• The task is small enough to just do inline — delegation overhead is not worth it.
• The codex CLI is not installed or not authenticated (run codex login).
• You want to write the code yourself, or you only need a review (use Codex's own review command).

Prerequisites (check once)

1. codex --version succeeds. If not, install (npm i -g @openai/codex) and codex login.
2. Confirm which codex is on PATH. Multiple installs are common (e.g. a current npm/nvm copy and

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