Codex plugin
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 3 of 8 coding agent plugins by recommenders
People recommend it for scanning the current repo and delegating tasks from Claude Code to cut usage. Critics note slowness and stalled reconnecting.
People recommend it for scanning the current repo and delegating tasks from Claude Code to cut usage. Critics note slowness and stalled reconnecting.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Delegates work from Claude Code
“setting up both allows Claude Code to delegate tasks to Codex to reduce usage”
Comment from 20 Aug 2026 in “Anthropic Refuses to Support Agents.md” “The quite useful tool is to use /opusplan along with /codex:rescue”
Comment from 30 Jun 2026 in “Claude Sonnet 5” Heavy daily use as main tool
“Claude and Codex have given me a huge ROI and are worth every penny.”
Comment from 21 Aug 2026 in “Git at Any Scale” “98% just using the codex plugin”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “SpaceX Is Buying Cursor” Works well in VS Code and CLI
“The plugin, including when invoked through the Codex CLI, is great for scanning the repo you're currently working in.”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security” “GPT 5.1 has been pure magic in VSCode via the Codex plugin”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “GPT-5.2-Codex”
Other coding agent plugins people recommend
The four most recommended other coding agent plugins, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caveman | 59 | 33 | 64% | 7 | — | — |
| Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code | 31 | 6 | 84% | 1 | — | — |
| Codex pluginThis page | 10 | 3 | 77% | 7 | — | Approved |
| oh-my-openagent | 10 | 6 | 63% | 8 | — | — |
| Compound Engineering plugin by Every | 9 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | — |
What people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Then using the Codex plugin in Claude Code was slow”
“found that "ask" is a great single mechanism”
“one click install with Codex Plugins and Claude Connectors”
“Claude and Codex have given me a huge ROI and are worth every penny.”
“setting up both allows Claude Code to delegate tasks to Codex to reduce usage”
“The plugin, including when invoked through the Codex CLI, is great for scanning the repo you're currently working in.”
“The quite useful tool is to use /opusplan along with /codex:rescue”
“98% just using the codex plugin”
“adds a bit of time to the workflow but once you have the permissions sorted it'll just engage codex when necessary”
“Their latest desperate bid for relevance is a plugin for Claude Code”
“Often times it will just simply not send the API request and just say reconnecting”
“allows consuming your "web" (ie non-api) subscription for coding/agentic tasks”
“GPT 5.1 has been pure magic in VSCode via the Codex plugin”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.