Software & DevOpsDone with Claude Code, Codex Sep 1, 2026
Split frontend and backend work across Claude Code and Codex
A poster ran Claude Code and Codex in parallel for 15 days, with Claude Code on the frontend and another agent on the backend.
- What They Did
- The poster split work between Claude Code on the frontend and Codex on the backend, then used Tutti for 15 days as a shared workspace so both agents could see the same live context, files, and task outputs. Instead of re-explaining work at every handoff, they forwarded task cards between agents, used @ references to pull prior Claude conversations into Codex, and occasionally borrowed a teammate’s agent with its MCP setup already configured.
- How It Went
- They said the main win was lower coordination overhead: easier handoffs, a board showing in-progress/completed/failed/stopped tasks, and faster recovery from failures by checking the last execution step. The poster also said two weeks was too short to fully stress-test the setup, and agent borrowing was less useful for solo async work.
- Worth Knowing
- Their clearest advice was to use card forwarding immediately and borrow the teammate agent with the best MCP configuration, since that full setup carries over.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I'm building [project] and want to split the work: you handle the frontend in [frontend folder] and another agent handles the backend in [backend folder]. First write a short shared contract describing the API endpoints and data shapes at [file path]. Then build the frontend against it, and stop when it works with a mock of the backend. Tell me what the backend must match.