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by sdesol 1 day ago
My solution has a natural self improvement loop. Once you have finished a task, you just ask the agent "If you had more information, how would you have finished the task sooner and/or better?" This was how I came about the rust blast radius brain.

I need to modify OpenAI's Codex agent to support slash commands that can help humans better guide agents, and I needed a solution with the least impact. They don't accept contributions so I need to plan for syncing with the upstream.
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andai 19 hours ago
Nice, tell me more about your Codex fork.

Are you running it with official or custom models? I've been trying to get custom models working in Codex and haven't been able to figure it out. (A lot of providers support Responses API, but they don't actually work with Codex.)

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sdesol 13 hours ago
I haven't made any changes yet and I think the changes that I do make, they will want. I want to create a `/knowledge` slash command that can quickly tell me what the Agent currently knows so I can determine if I need to perform "lobotomy surgery" to make it not know something or add what it needs.

I created a new brain that helped me find the answer for what you described:

> Codex does not just need a /v1/responses endpoint. It needs an OpenAI Responses-compatible agent surface. Many providers implement enough Responses API for text streaming, but not enough for Codex’s tool-call loop and event mapping.

I can understand why they might have done this for performance and/or lock-in and/or AI thinking reasons.

I don't think I will create a translation layer, as that would be a sync nightmare, so based on what I found and what you said, it doesn't look like you can use other providers unless you introduce a proxy layer to translate things.

I should also note, even if you have the translation layer, you might end up breaking harness capabilities.

I am going to update

https://github.com/gitsense/smart-codex

to include the `codex-rust-navigation` brain that you can use to chat with AI about. And you will probably want to use it since `gpt-5.5` estimated that 25 - 50 files did not have to be read:

> Roughly 300-500 files avoided, with a defensible lower bound around 25-50 files.

This brain is designed specifically for rust files so you will need to use code-intent if you want to ask more documention/config questions.

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