Collaborating with Codex

Route every Codex call through codex_bridge.py. Use academic evidence and manuscript review as the default context. Retain direct execution only for an explicitly authorized task.

For any read-only academic consultation other than scientific figure generation, call Codex and Hermes together through scripts/paired_consult.py. Follow skills/_shared/core/dual-consult-protocol.md. Do not run Codex alone for a review, analysis, synthesis, draft, experiment plan, or second opinion.

Always launch the bridge or paired runner in the background. Use a Bash timeout of at least 660000 ms for paired consultation. Do not poll; wait for the completion notification.

Choose the mode

Paired consultation

Use paired consultation for:

• claim, evidence, method, statistics, novelty, or venue review;
• literature-search result synthesis;
• manuscript or rebuttal candidates;
• experiment, ablation, metric, and result-analysis proposals;
• adversarial review and independent second opinions.