Codex CLI guides: AGENTS.md and review

Practical Codex CLI guides for AGENTS.md, MCP permissions, auto-review, verification evidence, and production workflows.

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Noonday Meal, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Opens Its Agent Harness

OpenAI’s Codex platform release explains the open agent harness and how to test it safely in one repo.

August 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
L'inondation de Saint-Cloud, landscape painting by Paul Huet.
Open Source·8 min read

Sloppie Is a Linux Agentic Coding Environment

Sloppie is a Linux development environment that turns coding-agent work into review comments, diffs, and terminals.

August 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Golden Hour, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1875).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Hands Lets MCP Click Real Chrome

Hands shows a Windows MCP path where Codex can observe, click, and type in a real Chrome profile safely.

August 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Houses in a Park (Maisons dans un parc), landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1911).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Simon Willison on Coding Agent Review

Simon Willison argues that coding agent review is really about proving changes, not reading every generated line.

August 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Lower Falls, Rochester, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1849).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

A Week Choosing Codex Over Claude

A developer’s week with Codex over Claude turned into a sharper question: which agent makes smaller, faster patches?

August 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Binz-auf-Rügen 1901 Kandisnky SerbNatMus 20241103 301dpi 4, landscape painting by Wassily Kandinsky (1901).
Open Source·7 min read

fx Is a Tiny Native Coding Agent

fx is a tiny native coding agent from Vercel Labs. Learn why its small shape matters and how to test it safely.

August 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Rutland Falls, Vermont, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1848).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex CLI 0.149.0 Adds Agent Dashboard

OpenAI Codex CLI 0.149.0 adds an agent dashboard, queue commands, better doctor checks, and safer session restores.

August 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Spring, landscape painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1901).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Show HN: Frugal Tokens Shows Agent Costs

Frugal Tokens explores coding-agent session costs, cache misses, and usage patterns so developers can inspect spend before changing workflows.

August 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Niagara Falls, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1852).
Open Source·9 min read

Codex on AWS Bedrock 10x Charges

A Codex CLI issue on Amazon Bedrock showed expensive cache writes. Learn what happened and the safe checks to run first.

August 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
La Mare, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1850).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Speko Launches Voice AI Router

Speko routes voice AI stacks across STT, LLM, and TTS choices, with a useful lesson for coding-agent evals.

August 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Worthington whittredge, lago shawangunk, 1863, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1863).
Open Source·8 min read

neal Runs Claude and Codex Together

neal shows how Claude and Codex can split planner, coder, and reviewer roles in a local repo workflow.

August 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Triumph at Calvary, landscape painting by George Inness (1874).
Open Source·9 min read

Show HN: Remarc Feedback via MCP

Remarc captures comments on text, screenshots, web elements, and voice so coding agents can resolve them through MCP.

August 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
Paysage au bord de la mer, landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Methodology·3 min read

Running an agent team in Codex without chaos

How to run an agent team on Codex: splitting work so parallel agents do not collide, giving each one a verifiable exit, and knowing when one agent is better.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Méricourt, a Sunday by the Seine, landscape painting by Maximilien Luce (1929).
Methodology·3 min read

Agent teams in Codex and when the extra agents pay off

Running agent teams in Codex helps on tasks that split cleanly and hurts on everything else. Here is how to tell the difference.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Ploughing Scene in Suffolk, landscape painting by John Constable (1824).
Methodology·3 min read

How agents in Codex actually decide what to do

A plain explanation of how agents in Codex read a repo, pick tools, and recover from failure, plus the three habits that make them useful.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Hamlet of Optevoz, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1852).
Methodology·3 min read

AI code review tools with team governance and policies

What to check before buying AI code review tools with team-based governance and policies, and which controls actually change behaviour.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
View near Newport, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1860).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Artifex Gives Agents a Media Graph

Artifex is a headless CLI runtime for agent-built media graphs, with practical checks for trying it safely in Codex workflows.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Ufer des Tiber bei Acqua Acetosa Banks of the Tiber near Acqua Acetosa, landscape painting by Ludwig Richter (1835).
Methodology·3 min read

Autoreview in Codex and how teams get value from it

Autoreview in Codex catches a narrow class of bugs well. Here is where it helps, where it wastes time, and how to tune it.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Mountain Scene, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1865).
Open Source·8 min read

cliclaw Runs Coding CLIs From Telegram

cliclaw is a Telegram-controlled macOS daemon for local coding CLIs, with safety checks that make it worth trying.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and sculptures by the old and modern masters forming the famous Catholina Lambert Collection removed from Belle.
Methodology·3 min read

Designing a Codex agent team for one feature

A worked example of splitting a single feature across a Codex agent team, including the handoff format and the parts you should keep for yourself.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Cows Crossing a Ford, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1836).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex agent teams and the review bottleneck

Codex agent teams sound like parallel throughput. In practice the limit is human review. How to structure the work so the parallelism actually pays.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Halle, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Ludwig Richter, Hohnstein in der sächsischen Schweiz, landscape painting by Ludwig Richter.
Methodology·3 min read

Standardising Codex agents across an engineering team

Rolling out Codex agents to a team: shared repo context, an agreed review policy, sane sandbox defaults, and the metrics that tell you it is working.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Henri-edmond cross, pomeriggio in giardino, 1904-05, 03, landscape painting by Henri-Edmond Cross (1904).
Methodology·4 min read

Codex agents, and when they stop helping

How Codex agents behave on real repositories, what AGENTS.md should contain, and the point at which adding more agents makes the work slower.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Study of a Hill Top and Sky, landscape painting by James Ward.
Methodology·3 min read

Codex AI training that changes what a team merges

What Codex AI training should cover for a working engineering team, how to structure it, and the measures that show whether it worked.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Mdba alencon gustave courbet sous-bois, landscape painting by Gustave Courbet.
Methodology·3 min read

The codex-auto-review model and why it appears

Why the codex-auto-review model label shows up in your logs and PR comments, what it tells you, and how to reason about review quality without it.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi, landscape painting by Dai Jin (1400).
Methodology·4 min read

What Codex auto review actually catches

Codex auto review reads your diff and comments before a human does. Here is what it catches, what it misses, and how to wire it into a real team.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, Ludwig Richter, Abendandacht, landscape painting by Ludwig Richter.
Methodology·3 min read

Codex autoreview settings worth changing

Codex autoreview defaults are fine for a demo and noisy for a real team. The settings and repo rules that make the comments worth reading.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
April Moon. 'La lune rousse', landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1875).
Methodology·3 min read

What a Codex bootcamp should cover, and what to skip

What a codex bootcamp needs to teach engineers in two days, which exercises work, and the parts that waste everyone's time.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Les bords de la Loire près de Nantes, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
Methodology·3 min read

Codex CLI auto-review and what it catches

How Codex CLI auto-review behaves on a real diff, the bug classes it reliably finds, and the ones it will walk straight past.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Autumn in Arkville, landscape painting by Alexander Helwig Wyant.
Methodology·4 min read

Setting up Codex CLI MCP without regret

Codex CLI MCP support means the agent can call tools provided by an external process: a database client, a docs index, an issue tracker, a browser.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments, landscape painting by John Martin (1896).
Methodology·3 min read

A Codex CLI workflow that holds up on a Tuesday

The Codex CLI workflow we teach engineering teams: plan in read-only, execute in a worktree, verify with one command, and keep sessions short.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Stafelalp, retour des animaux, landscape painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Methodology·3 min read

Codex cls, and why clearing context is a real skill

People search codex cls looking for a clear command. The useful answer is about when to clear context in a Codex session, and why it matters.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Cow, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1872).
Methodology·3 min read

What a Codex course should teach your engineers

How to judge a Codex course before you buy one, what a good syllabus contains, and when a team is better off skipping training entirely.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Иван Айвазовский Морской пейзаж, landscape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky.
Methodology·3 min read

How to pick between Codex courses for a working team

Most Codex courses teach the interface. Here is how to tell which ones change how a team actually ships, and what to ask before you buy.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Three Swans, landscape painting by Henri-Edmond Cross (1899).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex delegate patterns that survive a real codebase

How to Codex delegate a task properly: scoping the handoff, writing the acceptance check first, and picking the sandbox mode that matches the risk.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
La Rochelle, landscape painting by Paul Signac (1911).
Methodology·4 min read

Codex GitHub reviews without the noise

Codex GitHub integration puts an agent inside your pull requests. What to hand it, what to keep on your laptop, and how to stop the comment flood.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with cows, landscape painting by Jules Dupré.
Methodology·4 min read

Codex MCP servers, and when they are worth the tokens

A practical guide to Codex MCP setup: what to connect, what to leave out, and the failure modes that cost teams a whole context window.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Paul Huet-, landscape painting by Paul Huet.
Methodology·3 min read

Choosing between Codex models on real work

Codex models differ in speed, cost, and how long they hold a plan. How to pick one per task instead of picking once.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
View from a Window in Toldbodvej Looking Towards the Citadel in Copenhagen, landscape painting by Christen Købke (1833).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex opt out of training, and what to verify

We are deliberately not quoting exact menu paths or policy clauses here, because these change and a stale instruction is worse than none.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Le Marais (c.1850), landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.
Methodology·3 min read

Setting a codex SLI your team will actually watch

A codex SLI turns vague agent adoption talk into a number. Which indicators are worth tracking, which are vanity, and how to instrument them.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments, landscape painting by John Martin (1896).
Methodology·3 min read

When Codex sub agents help and when they hurt

Codex sub agents split a task across separate contexts. Useful for parallel search, risky for anything that needs shared state.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Soleil couchant, PPD4456, landscape painting by Paul Huet.
Methodology·3 min read

Codex subagents and skills, honestly compared

What people mean by Codex subagents and skills, what the tool actually gives you today, and how to get the same effect with prompts and scoped runs.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Das Gabain-Sommerhaus The Gabain Summerhouse, landscape painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1820).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex subagents: what they buy you

Codex subagents split work into fresh contexts. Here is when that helps, when it costs you, and how to structure a delegation that returns something usable.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Orchard at Night, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
Methodology·3 min read

Setting up one Codex team agent everyone shares

A shared Codex team agent gives you one identity, one config, and an audit trail. Here is how to set it up and what it should never be allowed to do.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Coteaux-la Bonneville, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
Methodology·3 min read

Running Codex team agents without stepping on each other

Codex team agents work when the shared rules live in the repo and the work is split by boundary. Here is the setup we teach and the failures we see.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Paysage à Méréville, landscape painting by Maximilien Luce (1904).
Methodology·3 min read

What codex team mode actually means for a shared repo

Codex team mode is mostly convention, not a setting. What shared config, review rules, and task ownership look like when a whole team runs Codex.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Richard Parkes Bonington, View of the Grounds of a Villa near Florence, 1826 1 27 18 -artinstitutechi (26845554368), landscape painting by Richard Parkes.
Methodology·3 min read

Running a Codex team of agents without a mess

When a Codex team of agents beats a single session, how to keep parallel work from colliding, and the point where it stops paying off.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Van Gogh schilderij Le Pont de Trinquetaille te kijk in Amsterdam in verband m, Bestanddeelnr 934-0209, landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh (1987).
Methodology·3 min read

Running Codex across a team without chaos

A Codex team needs shared config, shared review habits, and one owner. Here is the setup that survives contact with a real backlog.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Joseph anton koch, paesaggio col rapimento di hylas, 1832, 02, landscape painting by Joseph Anton Koch (1832).
Methodology·3 min read

Rolling out Codex to teams without losing the review gate

How Codex teams share configuration, keep review honest, and avoid the two rollout patterns that quietly waste a quarter.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Rolleboise, la Baignade, landscape painting by Maximilien Luce (1920).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex training that survives contact with your repo

Most Codex training teaches the interface. What teams need is the operating discipline.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Esquisse de paysage, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1830).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex vs Claude Code, from teams running both

Codex vs Claude Code without the benchmark theatre. Where each one wins in day-to-day work, and why most teams end up keeping both installed.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
La Mare, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1842).
Methodology·3 min read

How Codex works, and where it stops working

A practitioner view of how Codex work gets done: the read-plan-edit-verify loop, what the sandbox allows, and the tasks where it reliably falls over.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Golden Glow, landscape painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock.
Methodology·3 min read

A Codex workflow that survives contact with a real repo

The Codex workflow we teach: shape the task, plan, small diff, verify, commit. Plus the three points where teams reliably lose time.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Kreidefelsen auf Rügen, landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich.
Methodology·3 min read

Four Codex workflows that hold up under load

Most Codex workflows fall apart on real code. These four survive, and each one has a clear failure mode you should know.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
View in County Kerry, landscape painting by Alexander Helwig Wyant (1875).
Methodology·3 min read

Codex xli is nearly always a typo for Codex CLI

Searching codex xli usually means you wanted the Codex CLI. Here is what the terminal agent does, how to run it, and where teams get stuck.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Étaples, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
Methodology·3 min read

Onsite programming sessions that survive contact with agents

What an onsite programming day with AI coding agents should look like, who it works for, and where the format falls down.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Movement, Bermuda, landscape painting by Marsden Hartley (1916).
Methodology·3 min read

What is codex-auto-review, in plain terms

A short answer to what is codex-auto-review, what shows up in your pull requests, and how much of it you should trust.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
On the Scheldt, Holland, landscape painting by Henry Ward Ranger (1885).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex in ChatGPT Linux Preview

OpenAI’s Linux preview brings Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app, with a safe first repo workflow to try.

August 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Kallmünz Light Green Mountains by Wassily Kandinsky, landscape painting by Wassily Kandinsky.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Read it easy Is a Read-Only Code Editor

Read it easy is a read-only desktop code editor built for source reading. Here is why its Go to Definition idea matters.

August 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Hall of Lofty Pines, landscape painting by Wang Hui (1703).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

FEDERaiDE Routes Agents in Your Terminal

FEDERaiDE is a terminal multi-agent harness with P2P routes, memories, and an IDE. Here is when to try it safely.

August 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
White Mountains from Shelburne, NH, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1816).
Open Source·9 min read

tmux-agent-switcher Watches Coding Agents

tmux-agent-switcher tracks AI coding agents in tmux so you can spot blocked Codex or Claude panes quickly.

August 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
View of Niagara Falls, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1846).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Hoplite Brings Coding Agents to Cloud

Hoplite (YC S26) moves local coding-agent setup into cloud sandboxes and raises the right questions about QA.

August 12, 2026·Rogier Muller
Indian Encampment, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1870).
Open Source·10 min read

keen-code: A Go Coding Agent

keen-code is a Go terminal coding agent that shows what a small, opinionated agent harness can teach Codex users.

August 12, 2026·Rogier Muller
Catalogue de tableaux modernes aquarelles, pastels (1901) (14598001827), landscape painting by Eugène Boudin (1901).
Open Source·8 min read

Airship Visually Edits Your Running App

Airship is a visual editor for running apps that lets Codex, Claude Code, or OpenCode change real source.

August 11, 2026·Rogier Muller
Serpentara Landscape with the Procession of the Magi, landscape painting by Joseph Anton Koch (1820).
Open Source·11 min read

Ante Ships Offline Coding in One Binary

Ante packages an offline coding agent into one binary, with the review habits needed before trusting its diffs.

August 11, 2026·Rogier Muller
Niagara Falls, landscape painting by George Inness (1885).
Open Source·9 min read

Qwen3.8-Max Local Coding via MCP

qwen3.8-max-local-coding connects Qwen Studio to local files through MCP, with a clear lesson on safe permissions.

August 9, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Departure, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1837).
Open Source·9 min read

Mirafold Wraps Coding Agents in Browser UI

Mirafold puts Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI output in a browser UI without changing the agent underneath.

August 8, 2026·Rogier Muller
A Foggy Sky, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1872).
Open Source·9 min read

Aident Loadout Gives Codex Real App Actions

Aident Loadout packages a skill that lets coding agents use connected apps, with audit history and safer trials.

August 7, 2026·Rogier Muller
Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Homme à la barque - Henri-Edmond Cross - Huile sur panneau, landscape painting by Henri-Edmond Cross.
Open Source·10 min read

mcp-use v2 Gets a Stateless Rebuild

mcp-use v2 was rebuilt for stateless MCP, with faster launches, smaller installs, and sharper integration boundaries.

August 7, 2026·Rogier Muller
South American Landscape, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1856, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07493, landscape painting by Frederic.
Open Source·9 min read

Frontrun Tests Python Races

Frontrun explores Python thread, async, and process interleavings so race conditions become reproducible.

August 6, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landschap met koeien bij een waterplas (La mare), landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1826).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Armature Instruments MCP Agent Sessions

Armature reconstructs MCP agent sessions so builders can see use cases, failures, and safer review boundaries.

August 4, 2026·Rogier Muller
Summer Day on Conesus Lake, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1870).
Open Source·7 min read

Rudder Measures Your Input on AI Code

Rudder turns prompt history into tests so Codex users can see whether generated code reflects their intent.

August 4, 2026·Rogier Muller
In the Simmental, Switzerland, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1843).
Open Source·8 min read

Sprocket Lets an Agent Buy Parts

Sprocket is a Show HN agent for hardware, software, and web purchases. Here is what mattered and how to test it safely.

August 3, 2026·Rogier Muller
Winter Scene in Hartford, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1846).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Claude MIDI Twister Shows Agent State

Claude MIDI Twister turns a MIDI controller into a live status board for coding-agent sessions.

August 1, 2026·Rogier Muller
Lake Shawangunk, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1862).
Open Source·9 min read

Agent-Manager Gives Codex a tmux Dashboard

Agent-Manager puts Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok Build, and Gemini CLI sessions into one tmux dashboard.

July 31, 2026·Rogier Muller
Paysage, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.
Open Source·9 min read

codex-security Tests the Repo Boundary

OpenAI’s codex-security scans code for vulnerabilities, but the real lesson is where to draw the repo boundary before agents fix code.

July 29, 2026·Rogier Muller
Section near the Lime Kiln with a View towards Copenhagen, landscape painting by Christen Købke (1836).
Open Source·9 min read

verified-3d-mesh-intersection Verifies 3D Mesh CSG

A Lean 4 mesh-intersection project shows why reviewers can trust a small spec, a checker, and sharp boundary tests.

July 29, 2026·Rogier Muller
Jules Dupré vieux chene 8980, landscape painting by Jules Dupré.
Open Source·10 min read

FeyNoBg Ships Background Removal Library

Feyn released FeyNoBg and NoBg, showing how to test an AI image tool before wiring it into real repos.

July 28, 2026·Rogier Muller
Les Laveuses au bord de la Seine à Bonnières, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
Open Source·9 min read

Boffin Adds Per-Edit Agent Guardrails

Boffin routes file-specific constraints to coding agents, then asks them to verify the edit before it lands.

July 27, 2026·Rogier Muller
A Wild Scene, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1831).
Open Source·8 min read

Termic Runs CLI Coding Agents

Termic is an open source desktop app for running CLI coding agents in checkouts and worktrees.

July 27, 2026·Rogier Muller
Chimborazo Volcano, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1884).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Argus Manages VS Code Worktree Agents

Argus is a VS Code extension that manages parallel Codex and Claude Code worktree sessions in one window.

July 26, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Canoe, landscape painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1880).
Open Source·9 min read

claude-code-survival-kr Guards Working Code

A Show HN repo turns vague AI coding advice into hard repo rules that keep agents from breaking stable code.

July 26, 2026·Rogier Muller
La Clairière, landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1865).
Open Source·10 min read

Show HN: WhipDesk Controls Dev Machines From Phones

WhipDesk is an open-source phone remote desktop for AI coding agents, with a safe Codex handoff checklist.

July 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
Chaumière normande, vieux Trouville Normandy thatched cottage, Old Trouville, landscape painting by Paul Huet (1861).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Echo Tests Cheaper Open-Weight Routing

Echo routes open-weight models per task, raising useful questions about evals, cost, and review habits for AI code.

July 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Undergrowth, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1847).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Code Review Habits for Coding Agents

Learn a practical team workflow for reviewing AI-generated code from Codex, Codex Agent, MCP boundaries, and PR checks.

July 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Dead Rising from Tombs, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1821).
Open Source·9 min read

Yorishiro Gives Coding Agents a Body

Yorishiro is a macOS terminal that gives coding agents a body, and shows why visible agent state matters.

July 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Mt. Ktaadn, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1853).
Open Source·10 min read

CodeAlmanac Saves What Agent Chats Forget

CodeAlmanac turns coding-agent chats into a local wiki, so agents can reuse decisions, flows, and gotchas.

July 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Last of the Buffalo, landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt (1888).
Open Source·9 min read

joydex Turns a Flight Throttle Into Codex Controls

Joydex maps flight-sim hardware to OpenAI Codex controls and shows when a physical agent interface is worth trying.

July 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Opkomende bui boven een heuvelachtig en bebost landschap, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1840).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Bloomy Tests AI Tutoring for K-12

Bloomy pairs an AI tutor with adaptive K-12 lessons, raising useful questions about trust, scope, and review.

July 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
La tarde, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

claw-coder Takes Autonomous Coding Local

Gabriel Blessed’s claw-coder pitch makes local agent safety concrete, with a safe-first way to try it.

July 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Het huis van ‘Mère Bazot’ in Valmondois My nurse's cottage. The house of 'Mother Bazot' in Valmondois (Seine-et-Oise), landscape painting by Charles-François.
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Codex and Codex Hit by Sandbox Escapes

Sandbox escapes in Codex, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity show why agent review needs a tighter repo boundary.

July 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Autumn on the Delaware, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1875).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

OpenAI Cuts Codex Context Window

OpenAI changed Codex CLI model metadata from 372k to 272k context, exposing a real workflow lesson.

July 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Farmhouse (La Ferme), landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1917).
Open Source·9 min read

Agent-talk Adds Agent-to-Agent Messaging

Agent-talk lets Claude Code sessions message through retalk, and shows how to test agent collaboration safely.

July 18, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Ducks, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1872).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Hermes Agent Runs Kimi K3 in a Sandbox

Hermes Agent’s Show HN demo runs Kimi K3 in Sanbox, with a safe Codex CLI review loop before patches land.

July 18, 2026·Rogier Muller
Autumn Gold, landscape painting by George Inness (1888).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Codex Micro Makes Agent Control Physical

Codex Micro is a compact OpenAI and Work Louder device for steering coding agents with explicit, physical controls.

July 17, 2026·Rogier Muller
The passing boats, landscape painting by John Sell Cotman.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Google Vids Adds AI Personal Avatars

Google Vids now uses Gemini Omni and personal avatars; Codex users learn the repo-safe review habit to borrow.

July 17, 2026·Rogier Muller
Кандинский Русский пейзаж, landscape painting by Wassily Kandinsky (1944).
Open Source·10 min read

deja-vu Adds Local Memory Over SSH

deja-vu turns local agent logs into searchable memory, with MCP recall, redaction, and sync for Codex-style workflows.

July 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
American painting and its tradition - as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent (1920) (14589719958).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Codex Encrypts Sub-Agent Prompts

Codex encrypted sub-agent messages, and one GitHub issue shows why readable agent trails still matter.

July 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Daubigny Bords de l'Oise 42504, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1913).
Open Source·10 min read

Juggler Turns Coding Agents Into a Workbench

Juggler is an open-source GUI coding agent that makes tool calls, context, and review trails easier to inspect.

July 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Beaux Arts de Carcassonne - Vue prise aux environs du col de Tende - Paul Huet - Salon de 1849, landscape painting by Paul Huet (1849).
Open Source·9 min read

clawk Runs Coding Agents in Disposable VMs

clawk gives coding agents a throwaway Linux VM, with safer command execution, network limits, and a useful training lesson.

July 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Frederic Ewin Church - Twlight, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1863).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Evaluate Prompt Quality in Claude Code and Codex

Learn how a prompt-quality measurement post turns Claude Code and Codex prompts into repeatable engineering checks.

July 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Wiesen bei Greifswald, landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1821).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Sanbox Gives AI Agents MicroVM Sandboxes

Sanbox runs AI agents in isolated, resumable sandboxes with filesystem state, run events, and Codex review use cases.

July 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
Griechische Ideallandschaft mit rastenden Hirten Greek Fantasy Landscape with Resting Shepherd, landscape painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1823).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Terry Tao’s Old and New Coding-Agent Apps

Terry Tao’s coding-agent app notes show how small visual tools can be worth building when review risk stays bounded.

July 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1893).
Open Source·9 min read

searxng-ai-kit Brings SearXNG to MCP

searxng-ai-kit packages SearXNG as a CLI and MCP server, with safe Codex setup boundaries for local search.

July 12, 2026·Rogier Muller
Bords de Seine à la barrière de la Cunette, près du Champ-de-Mars (1820), landscape painting by Paul Huet (1820).
Open Source·9 min read

9lives Heals Playwright Tests Safely

9lives repairs broken Playwright selectors, shows a diff, and gives Codex users a safer test-healing pattern.

July 11, 2026·Rogier Muller
Marshlands, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Databricks Benchmarks Coding Agents on Its Codebase

Databricks tested coding agents on a huge real codebase, and the useful lesson is cost per finished task.

July 10, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Juniata, Evening, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1864).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Kastra Enforces Policies for Claude Code, Codex, and Codex

Kastra intercepts coding-agent tool calls before they run, so risky database, shell, and MCP actions can be checked.

July 10, 2026·Rogier Muller
New England Scenery, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1851).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Ask HN: What Agent Sandboxes Are Missing

Ask HN’s agent sandbox thread shows why Codex work needs clear MCP edges, network controls, and review receipts.

July 9, 2026·Rogier Muller
Ludwig richter, tempesta sul monte scalambra presso olevano nei monti sabini, 1830, 02 fulmine, landscape painting by Ludwig Richter (1830).
Open Source·9 min read

Moo Versions Machines for Agent Branches

Moo gives each agent branch its own Linux machine state, so file changes and runtime services stop colliding.

July 9, 2026·Rogier Muller
Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1892).
Open Source·9 min read

Rowboat vs Claude Desktop: Local Work Surfaces

Rowboat brings a local-first workbench to Claude-style desktop AI, and shows where Codex CLI still fits best.

July 8, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Allée at Marines (L'Allée de Marines), landscape painting by Paul Cézanne (1898).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Clean Repos Make Coding Agents Cheaper

A May 2026 arXiv study found clean code did not raise pass rates, but it made coding agents cheaper to run and easier to review.

July 7, 2026·Rogier Muller
Henri-edmond cross, spieggia a cabasson (baigne-cul), 1891-92, 02, landscape painting by Henri-Edmond Cross (1891).
Open Source·8 min read

TikZ Editor Makes LaTeX Figures Less Painful

TikZ Editor lets LaTeX users move figure elements visually while keeping source code visible and easier to review.

July 6, 2026·Rogier Muller
Portalen i Via Sepulcralis i Pompeji Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii., landscape painting by Christen Købke (1846).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

What Dan Luu Learned About Agentic Coding

Dan Luu published field notes on coding with AI agents. This piece explains what he found and why bounded loops keep Codex work reviewable.

July 5, 2026·Rogier Muller
Ariccia, landscape painting by George Inness (1874).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Ask HN’s LLM Coding Flow Debate

Why a Hacker News debate about LLM coding flow matters for Codex CLI, MCP, specs, and verification loops.

July 5, 2026·Rogier Muller
Cherokee Roses On A Light Gray Cloth, landscape painting by Martin Johnson Heade.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Manufact Brings MCP to the Cloud

A story-first look at Manufact (YC S25), MCP Cloud, and the permission boundaries Codex users should care about.

July 3, 2026·Rogier Muller
Summer Foliage, landscape painting by George Inness (1883).
Open Source·10 min read

OpenAI Codex Sensitive Files Issue

Codex Workshop research on issue #2847, agent ignore files, and safer Codex CLI workflows around secrets.

July 3, 2026·Rogier Muller
Bergen Park (Colorado), landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1870).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Team Rollouts for Real Repos

A Codex-ready team rollout plan for shared agent workflows, MCP boundaries, and safer review habits.

July 2, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Teton Range, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1897).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Agent Rules for Real Repos

Set up Codex agents with scoped AGENTS.md rules, safe MCP access, verification commands, and reviewable handoffs.

July 2, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Coming Storm, landscape painting by George Inness (1878).
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Safer Codex Rollouts for Teams

A practical Codex rollout for team AI coding governance with MCP boundaries, AGENTS.md rules, and review guardrails.

July 1, 2026·Rogier Muller
Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1866).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Codex CLI MCP Setup

Connect Codex CLI to MCP with scoped AGENTS.md rules, safe permissions, and a verification loop your team can review.

July 1, 2026·Rogier Muller
Second Beach, Newport, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1865).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Safe AI Coding Team Rollouts

A practical rollout plan for training engineering teams to use Codex and coding agents with guardrails.

June 30, 2026·Rogier Muller
Medway, Massachusetts, landscape painting by George Inness (1869).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Remote in Real Repos

Use Codex Remote with GitHub, AGENTS.md, MCP boundaries, and reviewable diffs in Codex CLI workflows.

June 30, 2026·Rogier Muller
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Théodore Rousseau, Lichtung beim Dorf Pierrefonds, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

A Practical AI Review Workflow

A Codex-first convention for aligning AI code assistants, MCP boundaries, and review guardrails across a team.

June 29, 2026·Rogier Muller
Monarch of the Glen, landscape painting by Maria a'Becket.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Remote for GitHub Workflows

A practical Codex Remote GA guide for teams using GitHub, AGENTS.md, MCP, and Codex CLI verification loops.

June 29, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape by Theodore Rousseau, undated, oil on panel - Huntington Museum of Art - DSC05316, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

Codex Review Guardrails That Stick

A practical Codex convention for safer agent-assisted reviews, MCP boundaries, and team-owned AGENTS.md checks.

June 28, 2026·Rogier Muller
View of Rome from Tivoli, landscape painting by George Inness (1872).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Run Codex as an Engineering Team

Team workflow for Codex CLI, AGENTS.md, verification loops, and reviewable diffs after Codex Remote GA.

June 28, 2026·Rogier Muller
Aivazovsky Russian Museum, landscape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Give Coding Agents Team Rules

A practical team convention for orchestrating Codex and other agents with clear roles, MCP limits, and review rules.

June 27, 2026·Rogier Muller
View across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, after a Squall, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1845).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Wire Codex to MCP Safely

A practical Codex CLI workflow for MCP servers, AGENTS.md rules, Remote runs, and reviewable verification.

June 27, 2026·Rogier Muller
Sea Breaking on Stony Cliffs at Left, landscape painting by James Ward.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Run Review Agents With Receipts

A practical Codex workflow for llm code review, with AGENTS.md guardrails, MCP boundaries, and a copyable review receipt.

June 26, 2026·Rogier Muller
View from Olana in the Snow, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1873).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Train Your Team on Codex Remote

A practical Codex training guide for teams adopting Codex Remote, AGENTS.md, MCP, and reviewable CLI workflows.

June 26, 2026·Rogier Muller
October, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.
AI-Assisted Coding·10 min read

Compare Coding Agents for Teams

A practical governance matrix for comparing Codex, Claude Code, and Codex across repo rules, MCP boundaries, and review loops.

June 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
Afternoon by George Inness, 1846, oil on canvas - New Britain Museum of American Art - DSC09203, landscape painting by George Inness (1846).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

AGENTS.md for Codex Teams

A practical AGENTS.md convention for Codex CLI teams that want safer MCP access, verification loops, and reviewable diffs.

June 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
Paysage avec moutons, landscape painting by Jules Dupré.
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Verify Coding Agents in Isolation

Signed isolation bundles help teams test coding agents with clear tool boundaries, review guardrails, and repeatable evidence.

June 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Beached Vessels and a Wagon, near Trouville, France, landscape painting by Richard Parkes Bonington (1825).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Review Code With Codex CLI

A practical Codex CLI review workflow with AGENTS.md rules, MCP checks, verification loops, and a PR receipt.

June 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1872).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

How Autonomous Coding Agents Ship Safely

A practical Codex team convention for autonomous coding agents, MCP boundaries, and code review guardrails.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Woodland Brook, landscape painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1880).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Govern Codex Agents With Workflows

A practical Codex team convention for autonomous coding agents, review guardrails, MCP boundaries, and safe verification loops.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Yellow Bush, landscape painting by George Inness (1885).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Govern Autonomous Codex Workflows

A practical Codex workflow convention for governing autonomous coding agents with states, MCP boundaries, and review checks.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Farmhouse, landscape painting by George Inness (1876).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

Check Codex MCP Access

A practical Codex CLI MCP checklist for AGENTS.md, verification loops, and reviewable team workflows.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
View of Wimmis, Valley of the Simmental, Switzerland, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1868).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Verify Codex MCP Access

A practical Codex CLI MCP checklist for AGENTS.md rules, verification loops, and reviewable diffs after app updates.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Home by the Lake, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1852).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Check MCP Access in Codex

A practical Codex CLI workflow for verifying MCP servers, setting AGENTS.md boundaries, and keeping diffs reviewable.

June 23, 2026·Rogier Muller
Pure Tones among Hills and Waters, landscape painting by Xiao Yuncong (1664).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Skill Rubrics for Coding Agents

A team convention for reviewing agent skills, Codex workflows, MCP boundaries, and mixed-experience AI coding.

June 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Mekhitarist Fathers on San Lazzaro Island. Venice, landscape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (1843).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Codex Conventions for Mixed-Skill Teams

A practical Codex convention for AI coding training, skill rubrics, MCP boundaries, and review guardrails.

June 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Rondout Creek, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1862).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex Workflow After App 26.616

A practical Codex workflow response to app 26.616: AGENTS.md rules, CLI verification, MCP boundaries, and reviewable diffs.

June 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
South American Landscape, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1854).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Codex 26.616 Workflow Check

How to respond to Codex app 26.616 with AGENTS.md rules, CLI verification, MCP boundaries, and review habits.

June 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Sunrise, View of Drachenfels from Rolandseck, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1850).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

AI Code Review Needs a Receipt

A practical Codex-first review workflow for governing coding agents across tools, MCP servers, and team rules.

June 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Almy's Pond, Newport, Rhode Island, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1859).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Codex AGENTS.md Team Rules

A team convention for Codex AGENTS.md files, with scoped rules, MCP boundaries, and a reviewable verification loop.

June 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
An Arizona sunset near the Grand Canyon, landscape painting by Thomas Moran.
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

ROI Guardrails for Coding Agents

A practical governance workflow for Codex teams using AGENTS.md, MCP boundaries, skills, and review checks.

June 20, 2026·Rogier Muller
Frederiksborg Palace seen from Jægerbakken. Evening., landscape painting by Christen Købke (1835).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

A Safer Codex Review Loop

Use Codex CLI, AGENTS.md, verification, and review receipts to make AI-assisted code review safer for teams.

June 20, 2026·Rogier Muller
Stream in the Mountains, landscape painting by George Inness (1850).
AI-Assisted Coding·9 min read

Team AI Coding Training Plan

A team training guide for Codex, MCP boundaries, AGENTS.md rules, skills, and review guardrails.

June 19, 2026·Rogier Muller
La ferme, by Théodore Rousseau, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1909).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Add MCP to Codex Safely

A practical Codex CLI MCP guide for teams: configure one server, document AGENTS.md boundaries, and verify diffs.

June 19, 2026·Rogier Muller
Stream in the Mountains, landscape painting by George Inness (1850).
AI-Assisted Coding·8 min read

Install Codex CLI for Teams

Install Codex CLI with AGENTS.md, MCP boundaries, and a verification loop your team can reuse for reviewable diffs.

June 18, 2026·Rogier Muller
Coast Scene, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1860).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

AI Code Review Tools Need Receipts

A practical read on the workflow, tradeoffs, and next steps. Read the workflow, review rules, and team training patterns for AI coding tooling.

June 17, 2026·Rogier Muller
Camel's Hump from the Western Shore of Lake Champlain, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1852).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

OpenAI Codex-1 Agent Maximum Context Tokens

Team convention for Codex CLI context limits, AGENTS.md rules, MCP boundaries, and verification loops.

June 17, 2026·Rogier Muller
Een kusttafereel, Marée basse Coastal View, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1874).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

AI Code Review Workflow for Teams

A practical team convention for reviewing AI-assisted code without slowing delivery or losing ownership.

June 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
Zeegezicht te Villerville Coastal View at Villerville, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1858).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex Code Review for CLI Teams

A Codex CLI review workflow for AGENTS.md rules, MCP boundaries, verification loops, and review receipts.

June 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
Birds and Flowers, landscape painting by Kano Shōei (1540).
Methodology·6 min read

How to set up an AI coding workshop for your engineering team

How to set up an AI coding workshop: pick a format, scope it to your real repos and review habits, run hands-on labs, and leave with a shared playbook.

June 7, 2026·Rogier Muller
Village au bord d'une rivière, landscape painting by Maximilien Luce (1901).
·6 min read

AI coding training requirements for DevOps teams on Codex CLI

The five operational training modules DevOps teams need before Codex CLI touches delivery paths: guardrails, secrets, CI evidence, rollback, ownership.

June 2, 2026·Rogier Muller
Villerville Seen from Le Ratier, landscape painting by Charles François Daubigny (1855).
·5 min read

What is MCP in Codex? The answer for Codex CLI teams

The practical answer to what is MCP in Codex, plus the repo contract Codex CLI teams need before connectors touch shared code.

June 2, 2026·Rogier Muller
Rocky Landscape with Hunters, landscape painting by Gaspard Dughet (1630).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex Windows review loop

Codex CLI review workflow for openai codex cli review code changes, AGENTS.md, MCP, and verification loops.

May 31, 2026·Rogier Muller
Beached Ship, landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt (1859).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex Windows update: MCP and mobile use

A Codex CLI workflow guide for how to add mcp to codex, AGENTS.md, and reviewable verification loops.

May 30, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Haywain, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1861).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI 0.135.0 workflow

A Codex CLI guide for how to install codex cli, AGENTS.md, MCP, and reviewable verification loops.

May 29, 2026·Rogier Muller
Hyde Park, landscape painting by John Martin (1815).
Open Source·6 min read

Codex CLI boundaries

A Codex CLI guide for AGENTS.md, MCP, verification loops, and reviewable diffs. Read the workflow, review rules, and team training patterns for MCP.

May 28, 2026·Rogier Muller
A Home in the Wilderness, landscape painting by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1866).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI review receipts

A Codex code review workflow for AGENTS.md, MCP, and verification loops that turns CLI diffs into reviewable receipts.

May 27, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape of the Four Seasons, landscape painting by Yi Sumun (1450).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

Agentic coding guardrails

Practical ai coding training for large teams: review guardrails, MCP boundaries, and team habits that improve delivery.

May 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
Vale of Kashmir, landscape painting by Robert S. Duncanson (1867).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI workflows for reviewable diffs

A Codex CLI workflow guide for openai codex cli github, AGENTS.md, MCP, and reviewable verification loops.

May 25, 2026·Rogier Muller
Pond at Ville-d'Avray, landscape painting by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1865).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex CLI, Appshots, and Goal Mode

A practical Codex CLI comparison for codex cli vs claude code, with AGENTS.md, MCP, and verification loops.

May 24, 2026·Rogier Muller
Trees on a Rocky Hillside, landscape painting by Asher B. Durand (1844).
Open Source·6 min read

Codex CLI review loops

A Codex CLI workflow guide for codex cli mcp, AGENTS.md, MCP boundaries, and verification loops teams can use to ship reviewable production work.

May 22, 2026·Rogier Muller
Othon Friesz Port normand, landscape painting by Othon Friesz (1900).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

MCP training for engineering teams

Practical mcp training for engineering teams using agentic coding, review guardrails, and connector boundaries.

May 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Construction of an Elevated Railway: Bridge over the Cours de Vincennes, landscape painting by Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1888).
AI-Assisted Coding·7 min read

Codex CLI, GitHub, and MCP

A Codex CLI workflow guide for codex github, AGENTS.md, MCP, and reviewable diffs in production repos.

May 21, 2026·Rogier Muller
Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance, landscape painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1846).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI 0.132.0: workflows and integrations

Codex CLI 0.132.0 tightens AGENTS.md, MCP, and verification loops for reviewable diffs.

May 20, 2026·Rogier Muller
Peacocks and Bamboo, landscape painting by Tosa Mitsuyoshi (1580).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex governance: four contracts that hold in review

A codex governance note for engineering teams: the slash catalog, verification latch, browser bridge note, and model pin that keep Codex CLI work reviewable.

May 17, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with Saint John the Baptist, landscape painting by Herri met de Bles (1535).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex mobile CLI: runs that survive review

A codex mobile cli pattern for running Codex CLI from anywhere: verification latches, model pins, and connector rosters that keep remote runs reviewable.

May 16, 2026·Rogier Muller
The ruins of the Khan's tomb and a small minaret in Bolgar, Shishkin (2022-12-06), landscape painting by Ivan Shishkin.
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Why agentic coding governance beats raw speed

Agentic coding governance beats speed: connector cards, child receipts, decision stubs, and scope ledgers that make agent diffs defensible after merge.

May 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Château des environs de Paris, landscape painting by Paul Cézanne (1888).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

How to set up agentic coding workflows and guardrails

A field guide to agentic coding workflows and guardrails: handoff receipts, connector ownership, and review gates for engineering teams under deadline.

May 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Autumn in the Mountains, landscape painting by Unknown (1600).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex workflows for mobile handoffs

Codex workflows for mobile handoffs: the repo contract of model pins, connector rosters, done checklists, and slash catalogs that lets agent work change hands.

May 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
View of a Lake, landscape painting by Thomas Doughty (1830).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex mobile CLI docs your team can read anywhere

The codex mobile cli question is a docs question: how a team keeps AGENTS.md rules, run notes, and verification transcripts readable away from the desk.

May 15, 2026·Rogier Muller
Scenes from the Tale of Genji, landscape painting by Tosa School (1700).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex workspace agents need repo rules

Codex workspace agents and Codex cloud agents need repo rules: scoped boundary files, connector cards, and replay receipts reviewers can check.

May 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Twilight in the Wilderness, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1860).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex workflows: governance that lives in the repo

How to govern codex workflows from the repo: a connector roster, a ten-line done checklist, a slash catalog, and a verification latch reviewers can replay.

May 14, 2026·Rogier Muller
Die Gartenlaube (The Garden Arbor), landscape painting by Andreas Achenbach.
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Fast mode is not the default: when fast models earn it

The fast model is a tradeoff you make on purpose: scope ledgers, replay sandwiches, and connector cards that keep fast agent runs reviewable.

May 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
Tartars Hunting in a Mountain Landscape, landscape painting by Unknown (1615).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex-auto-review: what it catches and misses

Codex-auto-review trials showed Codex catching syntax drift and missing permission drift. The fix is transcript evidence and repo contracts, not more autonomy.

May 13, 2026·Rogier Muller
Capri, landscape painting by Jean Achille Benouville (1840).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Is Codex CLI giving MCP more reach than reviewers expect?

An operational memo for Codex CLI 0.129.0: MCP boundaries, connector owners, allowed actions, AGENTS.md instructions, and reviewable diffs.

May 11, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape with a Castle, landscape painting by John Martin (1815).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

AI agent guardrails that hold

A field guide to AI agent guardrails for recursive agent chains: connector ownership, child receipts, and review evidence that survives the merge queue.

May 10, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Kiss of Peace and Justice, landscape painting by Laurent de La Hyre (1654).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex workflows for Chrome and the CLI

Codex workflows that cross into Chrome: the browser bridge note, model pin, connector roster, and done checklist that keep two surfaces telling one story.

May 10, 2026·Rogier Muller
A Storm Behind the Isle of Wight, landscape painting by Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1790).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Agentic workflows from PR to merge

A PR review workflow for agentic coding teams: connector ownership, scoped tasks, replay transcripts, and human approval lanes from PR to merge.

May 9, 2026·Rogier Muller
Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir, landscape painting by Thomas Gainsborough (1777).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex CLI 0.130.0: AGENTS.md and MCP

What Codex CLI 0.130.0 means for production repos: check AGENTS.md boundaries, MCP permissions, and review evidence before and after the update.

May 9, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Waterfalls at Tivoli, landscape painting by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1737).
Open Source·6 min read

Codex CLI 0.121.0 for repo workflows

Codex CLI 0.121.0 repo workflows: named connector owners, a pinned model in AGENTS.md, and PR receipts that survive reviewer handoffs.

May 7, 2026·Rogier Muller
Montclair, New Jersey, landscape painting by George Inness (1873).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI workspace tools that make runs reviewable

Codex CLI workspace tools that carry the operating contract: model pin, connector roster, done checklist, and slash catalog for reviewable agent runs.

May 6, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Old Bridge over Hook Pond, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1907).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI 0.122.0: workflows, permissions, MCP

A Codex CLI 0.122.0 workflow guide: AGENTS.md instructions, permission boundaries, MCP rosters, and verification reviewers can replay.

May 5, 2026·Rogier Muller
The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh (1889).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex CLI 0.123.0: workflows that hold up

Codex CLI 0.123.0 workflows that hold up in review: replay recipes in the diff, a pinned model, a connector roster, and a ten-line done checklist.

May 4, 2026·Rogier Muller
View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine, landscape painting by Alexandre Pau de St. Martin (1809).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI 0.124.0: tighter rollback loops

Codex CLI 0.124.0 as a workflow moment: shrink the rollback contract, pin the model, and keep a connector roster and done checklist where reviewers live.

May 3, 2026·Rogier Muller
Trouville, le port, landscape painting by Eugène Boudin (1885).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex 5.5: pin the model before you swap it

Codex 5.5 questions are model governance questions: pin the default model and escalation rule in AGENTS.md, and keep browser checks bridged to CLI receipts.

May 2, 2026·Rogier Muller
Landscape, landscape painting by Kano Motonobu (1525).
AI-Assisted Coding·6 min read

Codex CLI /goal and AGENTS.md workflow

Use Codex CLI /goal to keep task intent and AGENTS.md to keep repository boundaries, verification checks, and handoff evidence clear.

May 1, 2026·Rogier Muller
Cliffs by the Coast of Northern Norway, landscape painting by Peder Balke (1840).
AI-Assisted Coding·5 min read

Codex-CLI 0.125.0: Reviewable Agent Loops

An operational memo for codex-cli 0.125.0: reviewable agent loops, AGENTS.md pins, verification transcripts, and connector rosters.

April 29, 2026·Rogier Muller