What works better for me now is a skills-style workflow: instead of explaining steps, I just trigger a mode.

In Codex, I paste one line like:

use vf: build a login page

That tells the model to plan, execute, test, and finish with minimal back-and-forth and no mid-stream questions.

This setup is adapted from the official Claude skills approach, but tuned to work directly in plain Codex chat.

It’s a small personal repo I use daily across machines: https://github.com/kks0488/vibe-skills

Happy to answer questions or explain the workflow.