Claude Code and Codex

A session's command decides what it runs: claude for Claude Code, codex for OpenAI's Codex CLI (each with any options you add), or anything else, such as a shell or a dev server. They can sit side by side, in the same project or even the same folder.

What each gets

	Claude Code	Codex	Any other command
Sessions and window
Tiles, tabs, projects, shortcuts	✓	✓	✓
Working, waiting, idle and not running dots	✓	✓	✓
Needs your answer dot	✓ permissions, questions, plans, the folder trust check	✓ approvals and questions (Codex reports them), the folder trust check	with OSC 7501
Starts when you first open it, after the app restarts	✓	✓	No, starts straight away
Conversations
A conversation of its own, even several in one folder	✓ the app picks its id	✓ learned once Codex saves it	No
Reopens it when the app or the session restarts	✓ `--resume <id>`	✓ `codex resume <id>`	No
Follows you to another conversation	✓ `/clear`, `/resume`	✓ `/new`; `/resume` once you send a prompt in it	No
Resume picker	✓	✓ tagged Codex	No
Conversation title on hover, and in the closing question	✓	✓	No
Conversation rail and tab
Rail of prompts and the Conversation tab	✓	✓	No
Works in full-screen mode	✓	✓	No
Project view: latest prompt and answer	✓	✓	status only
Panels and messages
Panels beside the terminal, their buttons, and messages between sessions	✓	✓	No
Theme
App, terminal and diff colours, accent, themes	✓	✓	✓
The agent itself started in matching light or dark colours	✓	not yet	No
Git
Git Changes, Git Repository, diffs, fetch/pull/push, pull requests, Project view	✓	✓	✓
Suggest writes the commit message	✓ Claude Code	✓ Codex	✓ Claude Code, if installed
App
Plugins	✓	✓	✓
Updates: sessions carry on in their conversations	✓	✓	restarted

Claude Code

Each Claude session is started with:

--session-id or --resume, so it keeps its own conversation (see Each session has its own conversation);
--mcp-config pointing at LlamaTree's MCP server for panels and messages (your own MCP servers still load; a command that passes its own --mcp-config is left alone);
--settings with the app's light or dark theme, since Claude can't detect the terminal's colours on Windows (left alone if you pass your own).

The conversation rail and tab read Claude's saved transcript, so they work in Claude's full-screen mode too. Suggest runs Claude Code as claude -p (see Suggest).

Codex

Its own conversation. Codex can't be told which conversation id to use, so a new session learns its conversation once Codex has saved it: the latest one started in its folder since the session started, not counting codex exec runs. From then on it's reopened with codex resume <id>. A Guardian review thread Codex starts under a conversation opens that conversation.
Following you. After /new the session moves to the new conversation once Codex has saved it. After /resume it moves to the conversation you picked once you send a prompt in it, read from Codex's prompt history (~/.codex/history.jsonl). With history.persistence = "none" in Codex's config, /resume isn't followed.
Saved conversations are read from ~/.codex/sessions, or CODEX_HOME when it's set.
Panels and messages: the app adds its MCP server to Codex's command line (-c mcp_servers.llamatree.…), with the session's token in an environment variable rather than on the command line. A command that sets that server itself is left alone.
Needs your answer: Codex reports in the terminal when it's waiting on you, so the dot doesn't depend on reading its screen (see below).
Suggest runs codex exec --ephemeral -s read-only with low reasoning: read-only and not saved as a conversation, using a little of your Codex plan.
Commands that choose for themselves: codex resume … and codex fork … keep their own choice of conversation, and Codex's other subcommands (codex exec, say) run as they are.

Other agents: the needs your answer dot

Any program can report that it's blocked on you by writing an OSC 7501 sequence with state=blocked to the terminal, which is how Codex does it. LlamaTree shows the pink dot for it, without reading the screen.

This page is docs/claude-and-codex.md from LlamaTree v1.3.0. Spotted a mistake? Edit it on GitHub.