How work dey flow
Change agent, no be app.
Coding agent fit finish im allowance for task middle. Your repository no finish anything. Leave the work where e dey, open the other agent, continue for the same terminal.
Most times e dey happen after useful work don start. Agent don read repository, find where failure dey and change two files. Then terminal stop with sentence wey no concern code: you don reach usage or spending limit.
One real Claude Code message talk am straight: You've hit your individual spend limit · run /usage-credits to ask your admin for a higher limit. Codex get im own limit notices and options wey depend on account. Words differ; interruption na the same. Vendor boundary don show for your working tree middle.
First: which limit you hit?
People dey call all of them “token limit,” but that name join three different wahala. Conversation context fit full, plan allowance fit finish, or account fit reach credit or spend cap. Wetin you go do next depend on wetin product really report.
Context or length
One conversation don reach amount of matter wey model fit carry active.
Wetin to do: Compact or summarize if e support am, or start fresh session with focused handoff.
Usage allowance
Your plan don use allowance for product current time window.
Wetin to do: Check reset wey dem show and upgrade or credit choices wey your account get.
Spend or credit cap
Paid continuation don reach personal, workspace or organization budget boundary.
Wetin to do: Add money, change cap, ask admin, wait—or move task to another agent.
Read the notice wey dey your front. Check vendor usage page for reset, credit or admin options wey that account get. Limits and remedy differ by plan and dem fit change. But to pay, wait or ask admin no be the only ways to make engineering task move.
Subscription stop. Repository no stop.
The clear fallback get price: you go change app
For phone, the clear fallback na to comot Claude app open ChatGPT for Codex, or comot ChatGPT open Claude. E work for the small meaning say another agent dey. E still change the whole cockpit for the exact time wey you need continuity.
Navigation move. Approval controls different. Session history arrange another way. One app fit get workflow wey the other no support, and none be general SSH terminal with your normal tmux sessions, SFTP browser and tunnels beside agent. First minutes go enter learning new controls instead of wetin old agent change.
Make terminal be the stable layer
Run Claude Code and Codex where work already dey: the same machine through the same SSH client. For Mobile SSH, to change vendor fit small reach to open another tmux pane run the other command. Phone interface stay familiar because na interface to your server, no be one model vendor.
| Work state | E carry cross? |
|---|---|
| Repository files and edits wey never commitFor the same disk | ✓ Yes |
| Git status, diff and test outputBoth CLI fit inspect am | ✓ Yes |
| SSH host, shell and work directoryThe same session | ✓ Yes |
| tmux, SFTP, tunnels and Agent AlertsThe same mobile tools | ✓ Yes |
| The other vendor conversation historyE need fresh handoff | — No |
Na useful portability be this. Next agent fit inspect files, diff, test output and project instructions wey remain for disk. Mobile SSH still know connection; tmux still know session; SFTP and port forward still dey. Agent Alerts work for both because hook dey report terminal state, e no marry any vendor.
Vendor-neutral no mean context go fly enter another agent. E mean evidence survive the switch.
The honest handoff
Claude conversation no turn Codex conversation, and the reverse no true too. No just tell replacement “continue” hope say e fit see chat wey another service own. Give am durable state: repository rules, working-tree diff, commands wey run, and result wey you still need.
Four-step handoff
- Freeze the evidence
No clean or overwrite tree. Capture
git status --shortand inspectgit diff --stat. - Read local rules
Make new agent read
AGENTS.mdand correct project docs before e edit. - Set baseline again
Run the smallest test wey concern task and record wetin pass, fail or never try.
- Continue for new pane
Start other CLI beside old pane, give am goal and limits, tell am inspect existing diff first.
Read AGENTS.md, git status and current diff. Preserve existing work. Run focused tests, explain wetin remain, then continue the task. If first agent stop before e write summary, diff na the official summary. Tell replacement make e inspect before e edit. That one protect half-done work, catch assumptions inside patch and give you clean place to choose continue, revise or revert.
One interface for any agent wey useful today
This no mean say Codex and Claude Code be the same thing. Their strength, model, tools, limits and account rules different. Na why interface no suppose force permanent choice. Pick agent wey fit task, allowance wey you get and repository policy.
Vendor native app dey often be the fastest zero-setup road to that vendor cloud agent. Keep am when na wetin you need. But when work dey machine wey you control, general terminal be stronger home: one app reach server, any agent wey install there, plus all SSH tools when work stop to be agent prompt return normal engineering.
Choose agent for im merit. Keep workspace for your own terms.