Claude Code or Codex: how to choose and keep both at hand

Do not choose forever

Rankings and reviews go stale faster than you can switch agents. Yesterday’s refactoring champion may lag today, and you have your own stack, habits and code anyway.

A more practical approach:

• keep subscriptions to two agents if the budget allows;
• give each one the tasks where it proved itself on your project;
• ask both on disputed questions and compare.

This also ends the dependence on one service: if one runs out of limit or goes down, the work goes on with the other.

Test both on the same task

The best test is a real task from your queue, not a toy example. Give the same brief to both agents, with the same context, and look at:

• who understood the task without follow-up questions;
• who touched fewer unrelated files;
• who checked the work instead of only writing code;
• how much of the limit each one spent.

In Hedoq both agents open in one window. “New session” (⌘N), pick Claude or Codex under “Agent” and the same project under “Project”. Each session gets the same feed, the same input field and the same starter set of rules, so the comparison is fairer: the agent differs, the setup does not.

To keep the agents from getting in each other’s way in one folder, turn on “Separate copy of the project”. How it works: several agents on one project.

Ask a model council

For an architecture decision, a hard bug or a review of an important piece, one opinion is not enough. Hedoq has “Model council” for this.

1. In the lead session, press ⚡ and choose “Model council”.
2. Switch on the models installed on this Mac: Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, a second Claude.
3. Press “Put into the field”, add the task, send.

The lead session then follows the council rules: it solves the task itself first and writes its answer down, then hands the same task to the members with all the context they need, compares and gives a verdict. The verdict is a short table: who proposed what, strong and weak points, the choice and why. Factual disputes are settled by checking the code, not by counting votes.

Members appear in the sidebar as a branch under the lead. They only read and reply; only the lead session edits project files.

Keep both limits in sight

With two agents, it helps to see what is left on each. Hedoq shows the limits of Claude Code, Codex and the other connected services by the camera notch on your Mac: what is left in the five-hour window and the week, and a notification when less than 10 % remains.

The notch makes it easy to decide who gets the next task: the one with more room. More on spending: how to stretch your usage limits.

Let one agent check the other

An agent spots mistakes in someone else’s code better than in its own. A simple pattern: one writes, the other reviews.

In Hedoq sessions talk to each other through ⚡:

• “Give a task to another session”: for example, Claude asks Codex to review a change, and the answer comes back on its own;
• “See what another session is doing”: it sends a short summary;
• “Show another session screen”: this session reads the other screen and tells you what is there.

No copying text between windows: Hedoq carries the message and brings the answer back.

Where to start

With one subscription, start with the agent you already have and do not rush to switch. If you are choosing from scratch:

1. Take one agent for a month and give it everything.
2. Write down where it made mistakes or got stuck.
3. Give the same tasks to the second one and compare.

In a couple of weeks you will see which tasks go to whom. Hedoq is free and works with your own subscriptions and keys, so keeping both agents in one window costs nothing beyond the subscriptions themselves.