Codex Claude Orchestra

Coordinate coding tasks across the official Codex and Claude Code CLIs. The extension uses the organization subscription already stored by those clients. It does not ask for an API key.

A mid-tier coordinator plans the work. It spawns up to three smaller workers, each in its own git worktree. You apply or discard each worktree. The sidebar shows an estimated cost for the open session and a running total for the project. Those figures are estimates, not invoices.

Requirements

• VS Code 1.95 or newer
• The codex and claude command-line tools on your PATH
• Each tool logged in with the organization subscription

Use

1. Open a folder.
2. Open the Orchestra view from the activity bar.
3. Describe the task and choose Run.

If a client is missing or logged out, Orchestra opens that client's official login in the integrated terminal.

Bundled skills are copied from the extension into the local skill folders on activation. That copy does not download anything. Re-copy them with Orchestra: Re-copy Bundled Skills.

Bundled skills

The package includes snapshots of these skill packs, with their own license files:

• Superpowers
• Ponytail
• BMAD build
• Caveman

Cost

Session and project totals are computed locally from token counts reported by the CLIs and a rate card in the extension. Override a rate with the orchestra.rates setting. A turn that reports no usage is marked incomplete rather than counted as zero.

Settings

• orchestra.claudeCeiling — highest Claude model a worker may use. Default sonnet.
• orchestra.codexEffortCeiling — highest Codex reasoning effort. Default medium.
• orchestra.codexModel — optional Codex model id. Empty uses the subscription default.
• orchestra.rates — optional rate-card overrides for estimates.