I Used One Codex Chat to Orchestrate Another

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I just learned that Codex can use one chat to supervise another. These are not subagents, but real threads with one monitoring the other.

I am working on a MetaSkill project, and I wanted to try out GPT-6 Astra’s new capabilities to see whether it would work better as an orchestrator or an implementer. The orchestrator experiment is ongoing, and I will tackle the implementer part next. I asked Astra to create a separate chat for the work, assign it the goal, track it, and steer it toward the outcome I wanted. Astra started a Sol chat at Extra High reasoning (exactly as I asked it to), then created a scheduled task in its own thread that checked the worker every ten minutes.

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I Used One Codex Chat to Orchestrate Another