delegate

Delegation Assessment & Dispatch

Act immediately — no confirmation needed. Pick the most reasonable interpretation and proceed. Only pause if the task is on the DO NOT trigger list above.

1. Identify What to Delegate

State the precise sub-task for Codex. It must be self-contained: a fresh agent with only this description and read access to the codebase should complete it.

• Verification request → frame as: "Independently verify: [your conclusion]. Return 'Confirmed: ' or 'Correction: <what's right>'."
• Budget offload → frame as you would frame it to any capable engineer.

2. Select Expert Category

Scenario	Category
Verify reasoning, second opinion, general analysis	analyst
Write new code (function, class, component)	code-generator
Write tests	test-writer
Add documentation or docstrings	doc-writer
Rename, extract, inline, restructure	refactor
Fix formatting or style	format

When uncertain, use analyst — its persona is tuned to be direct and independent.

3. Dispatch to codex-agent

Invoke the codex-agent with the task description, selected category, and current working directory. The codex-agent will select the sandbox level, run codex exec, and return formatted output.

4. Present Results

**[via Codex · <category>]**

<codex output>

• Verification result: present as "Codex confirms: …" or "Codex disagrees: …" and act accordingly. Never discard a correction silently.
• Never present Codex output as your own work.

5. Validate

Before relying on the output:

• Code: check for syntax errors, missing imports, obvious logic flaws.
• Analysis: check that conclusions follow from the evidence.
• Verification: check that confirmation/correction is internally consistent.

If something is wrong:

"[Claude note]: I've reviewed the Codex output and noticed [issue]. Corrected: [fix]"

Escalation

After 2 successive wrong outputs for the same task:

1. Stop delegating for this task.
2. Handle it directly.
3. Tell the user: "Codex produced inconsistent results here. Handling it directly."