Codex Dispatcher Skill

Operational Terms (defined upfront)

• Codex CLI: The OpenAI Codex CLI tool installed locally on the user's Mac, used as a subordinate coding agent for heavy tasks.
• Delegate: Send the task to Codex CLI instead of handling it in Claude.
• Handle in-house: Claude resolves the task directly, no Codex involved.
• Sandbox mode: The file-system access level granted to Codex for a given task.
• Reasoning effort: How deeply Codex thinks before writing code (maps to --reasoning flag).
• Resume: Continue a previous Codex session with the same model/effort settings.

Step 1 — Delegate or Not?

Evaluate the task against this decision matrix: