I do feel like the Codex CLI is quite a bit behind CC. If I recall correctly it took months for Codex to get the nice ToDo Tool Claude Code uses in memory to structure a task into substeps. Also I‘m missing the ability to have the main agent invoke subagents a lot.
All this of course can be added using MCPs, but it’s still friction. The Claude Code SDK is also way better than OpenAI Agents, it’s almost no comparison.
Also in general when I experienced bugs with Codex I was always almost sure to find an open GitHub issue with people already asking about a fix for months.
Still I like GPT-5.2 very much for coding and general agent tasks, and there is EveryCode which is a nice fork of Codex that mitigates a lot of shortcomings
Seems like you wrote at the same time I did my edit, yes Every Code is great however Ctlr+T is important to get terminal rendering otherwise is has performance problems for me
All this of course can be added using MCPs, but it’s still friction. The Claude Code SDK is also way better than OpenAI Agents, it’s almost no comparison.
Also in general when I experienced bugs with Codex I was always almost sure to find an open GitHub issue with people already asking about a fix for months.
Still I like GPT-5.2 very much for coding and general agent tasks, and there is EveryCode which is a nice fork of Codex that mitigates a lot of shortcomings