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Research, build, and review in one reusable recipe

Start ambiguous engineering work with read-only research, hand the recommendation to Codex, and finish with a structured review.

This PullPlane starter recipe is for ambiguous or cross-cutting work that needs evidence before implementation. It separates investigation, coding, and review into explicit handoffs.

The agent chain

The recipe runs Research at ultracode effort, Codex at high effort, and Reviewer at high effort. Research documents the relevant codebase, risks, viable approaches, and recommendation before Codex implements. Reviewer then checks the implementation against the same acceptance criteria.

  • Research: read-only findings and recommended approach
  • Codex: focused implementation and verification
  • Reviewer: correctness, regressions, edge cases, and missing tests

What to put in the shared spec

Define the intended user or system outcome, relevant code paths and dependencies, known constraints, exclusions, observable acceptance criteria, and the checks required before review. The later steps inherit that context instead of relying on an informal chat summary.

What the team reviews

Review the research recommendation before treating it as the implementation plan. After the coding step, inspect the branch, diff, available checks and preview, then resolve the Reviewer's findings before a human approves the merge.

Bring every coding agent onto one shared plane.

Plan with your team, run Claude and Codex in isolated sandboxes, and review the work before it ships.

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