Sibyl uses OpenAI's Codex CLI (GPT-5.4) as an independent third-party reviewer, providing a different AI perspective alongside Claude.
| idea_debate | Independent review of generated ideas |
| result_debate | Independent analysis of experiment results |
| review | Parallel review alongside Critic and Supervisor |
| writing_sections | Optional: entire paper written by GPT-5.4 (when writing_mode: codex) |
Preferred:
Manual JSON fallback:
For your own local machine, once Codex MCP and OPENAI_API_KEY are working, it is recommended to enable codex_enabled: true in your local config.yaml. That file lives in your working tree, but Git does not track or commit it, so your machine can default to Codex without changing the repo-wide default.
Important: MCP calls do NOT pass a model parameter — the model configured in ~/.codex/config.toml is used. This is because ChatGPT accounts may not support API-level model override.
The approval-policy should be set to "never" for fully autonomous operation.
When disabled:
When using experiment_mode: "server_codex", Codex CLI must also be installed on the GPU server:
And set OPENAI_API_KEY in the server environment. Configure the path if non-standard: