Three-tool loopResearch · Plan · Execute · Review
ResearchDevin
- Explore unknown codebases
- Long-running spikes
- Async, unblocks you
PlanClaude Code
- Plan mode → phased todos
- Architecture & design
- All UI work
ExecuteCodex
- Hand off the plan
- Heavy backend lifts
- Cheap parallelism
ReviewClaude Code
- Skills: review-pr, security-review
- Audits the diff before merge
- Catches what humans miss
Codex is horrible at frontend UI. Keep that in Claude.