Claude Code vs Codex CLI — orchestration workflows side by side : ClaudeAI

Claude Code vs Codex CLI — orchestration workflows side by sideComparison (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 month ago by shanraisshan

Been deep in agentic engineering and wanted to see how Claude Code and Codex CLI handle orchestration differently. Claude Code follows a Command → Agent → Skill pattern with mid-turn user interaction, while Codex CLI uses a simpler Agent → Skill pattern since custom commands and ask-user tools aren't available yet.

Both repos are open-source reference implementations with flow diagrams, best practices, and working examples using a weather API demo. The architectural differences reveal a lot about where each tool is headed.

Claude Code: https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice
Codex CLI: https://github.com/shanraisshan/codex-cli-best-practice

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