phone-a-team

/phone-a-team for Codex

Iterative multi-model refinement loop. Use this when the user wants more than a single relay — they want backends to push back on each other across rounds and converge on something. For one-shot "ask X and Y" requests, use /phone-a-friend (which already supports parallel multi-backend) instead.

You orchestrate the rounds yourself via Bash. Do not spawn Codex subagents for this — the skill is designed to run end-to-end in the parent turn. Codex's own model does the synthesis between rounds by reading the per-backend outputs you write to disk.

Inputs

$ARGUMENTS contains the user's request. Parse:

• TASK_DESCRIPTION: free-form text with flags stripped.
• --backend <name> (or --backend a,b): comma-separated list of friend backends to query each round. Allowed: claude, gemini, opencode, ollama. Never codex (the recursion guard refuses; you would be calling yourself). Default: claude,gemini. antigravity is deliberately excluded until the PaF backend supports session continuity; /phone-a-friend supports one-shot Antigravity relays.
• --max-rounds N: rounds before giving up. Clamp to [1, 5]. Default: 3.
• --model <name>: only meaningful for ollama and opencode.

If the user named only one backend, the team degenerates to a self-review loop against that backend across rounds. That is valid; do not error out, just proceed.

Step 0 — Preflight

1. Resolve the binary. Always use the PATH-installed phone-a-friend, never ./phone-a-friend from the current directory.

   RELAY_BIN="$(command -v phone-a-friend)"
   if [ -z "$RELAY_BIN" ]; then
     echo "phone-a-friend binary not on PATH. Install with: npm i -g @freibergergarcia/phone-a-friend" >&2
     exit 1
   fi
   

2. Resolve the repository path.

   REPO="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"
   

3. Check the Codex sandbox mode. You are running inside Codex. By default, Codex uses workspace-write, which blocks subprocess access to the macOS Keychain and most outbound network. That means relays to Claude will return Not logged in · Please run /login (false alarm — Claude is logged in; the sandbox is intercepting) and relays to Gemini will hang until the timeout fires (Gemini cannot reach Google for OAuth refresh).