Forge alone
You only need a shape for an idea. Invent a proposal →
Codex Mind
One guided run, idea to verdict.
Codex Mind chains the two halves of the plugin: it forges a proposal, then puts it through the council — in one guided pass. If you don't have a proposal yet, it asks what to build first. You get one combined cost estimate up front and a single build / revise / stop call at the end.
Every Mind run opens with this banner — the signal that the guided pipeline has begun.
The pipeline
Forge invents. Council judges. Mind runs both.
How the guided run works
Four moves, fully guided.
01
Start
The brain banner appears. If there's no proposal yet, Mind asks one focused question: what should we build, and the hard constraints.
02
Estimate once
One combined token estimate for both stages, shown and accepted up front — so you see the full cost before anything runs.
03
Forge
Five creators shape a bounded proposal (auto second round only on strong discord, hard cap three). You see it before it moves on.
04
Judge & decide
The council reviews the proposal and returns one call — build, revise, or stop — with blockers, dissent, and the exact verification.
Checkpoints, not surprises
If Forge can't converge, Mind surfaces the dissent and asks before paying for a council review. If the council finds a blocker, the run stops at revise or stop — never "build" over a live blocker.
When to reach for which
Three doors into the same building.
Council alone
You already have a plan and want it pressure-tested. Judge a proposal →
Mind
You have an idea and want to go all the way to a decision in one guided pass.
Use it
Hand Mind an idea.
In chat — give it something to build, and it runs the whole pipeline:
Prompt
Use Codex Mind to forge a proposal for <your idea> and then run it
through the council. Show me the combined estimate first, and end with a
clear build / revise / stop call.
Mind doesn't add new commands — it reuses Forge and Council under the hood. The combined estimate is just both stages, summed:
# Estimate both stages up front (shown as one range), then accept once.
python3 scripts/codex_council.py estimate --topic "<idea>" --mode standard --type forge --token-budget compact
python3 scripts/codex_council.py estimate --topic "<idea>" --mode standard --token-budget compact
Cheap by design
Two stages, one accepted estimate, compact by default. The handoff between them is just the proposal — never full transcripts — so a full run doesn't double your tokens.