Claude Code refuses tasks directly—but happily delegates them to Codex
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-17
User craigweiss observed a counterintuitive quirk: Claude Code sometimes refuses to do something directly, yet will happily comply if you tell it to pass the task along to Codex instead. AIFlowML chimed in approvingly. Another amusing data point on coding-agent guardrails and behavior boundaries.
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