github.com• Aug 4, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Neal – Codex writes the code, Claude reviews itneal is a CLI I wrote while trying to use an LLM coding agent (in this case, Codex GPT-5.4) to work autonomously on a migration of our large frontend codebase. A few things came up during that project that guided the development of neal:1. Telling an agent to "keep working unless blocked" doesn't actually work over long stretches of time.2. Large projects should be broken up into smaller chunks of work.3. The coding agent should start each chunk of work with a fresh context to prevent context rot.4. The coding agent benefits from having a different agent doing adversarial reviews along the way.What I ended up with is an orchestrator that- lets you configure planner, coder, and reviewer roles. I started with Codex and Claude using their SDKs but later added OpenRouter as well as a compatibility mode for verifying that a model can handle the orchestration. Currently there are 44 compatible OpenRouter models.- runs a plan that you provide through a planner / reviewer loop which splits the