Gossip

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Gossip is a small, single-binary bridge that lets **Claude Code** and **OpenAI Codex** collaborate on the same workstation — one as planner/reviewer, the other as implementer/executor — with messages flowing through a local daemon instead of you copy-pasting context.

┌─────────────┐   MCP stdio    ┌────────────┐   WebSocket   ┌───────────────┐   WS    ┌──────────────┐
│ Claude Code │ ◀────────────▶ │   Gossip   │ ◀────────────▶│ Codex TUI     │ ◀─────▶ │ codex app-   │
│             │                │   daemon   │               │ (via proxy)   │         │  server       │
└─────────────┘                └────────────┘               └───────────────┘         └──────────────┘

Table of contents

• Why Gossip exists
• Install in one line
• Five-minute quick start
• How it works
• The completion loop
• Commands
• Configuration
• Environment variables
• MCP tools exposed to Claude
• Uninstall
• Troubleshooting
• Building from source
• Cross-compilation
• Contributing
• License

Why Gossip exists

Two things are true at once today:

1. Claude Code is great at