I missed Codex's UI so much I rebuilt it on top of Claude Code
Quick note before I get into it: I'm Jimmy, I build small Mac tools, and this one is the most embarrassingly simple thing I've shipped in a while. It is also the one I use the most. Fair warning. I...

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Quick note before I get into it: I'm Jimmy, I build small Mac tools, and this one is the most embarrassingly simple thing I've shipped in a while. It is also the one I use the most. Fair warning. I have a confession that I think a lot of people who switched from Codex to Claude Code have been quietly sitting on. The model is better. The agentic behavior is better. The tool calls feel sturdier. But every single time I open a terminal and start typing, some small part of my brain misses the way Codex used to lay things out. The collapsible diffs. The way file edits felt like a real surface, not a stream of text scrolling by. The little keyboard rhythms. I tried to talk myself out of it for weeks. I just couldn't. So I built Claudx. It is Claude Code underneath, with a Codex style UI sitting on top. You point it at a repo and it behaves like the agent you already use, but the screen finally feels familiar again. Why bother I almost didn't ship this. I assumed someone at one of the bigger