Before you build
Challenge an idea, clarify the requirements, and find unanswered questions in a design before committing to an approach.
Elephant-Goldfish
Check your assumptions before you ship.
An assistant reviewing its own work already knows why each choice seemed right. Elephant-Goldfish brings a fresh reviewer into Codex to question a design, investigate a bug, or inspect a change. It reviews the evidence without inheriting the working conversation.
When a bug resists a fix
Give a fresh reviewer the symptoms and reproduction. Compare its diagnosis with yours before making another change.
Before you commit
Review the exact change you intend to ship. Get findings tied to evidence, with a clear account of what was checked.
How it works
A fresh view of the same evidence
Elephant
Keeps the project history, decisions, and working conversation.
The handoff
Sends the question and evidence. Leaves out its preferred answer.
Goldfish
Starts fresh and checks what the evidence supports.
A revision gets a new review
Review
A finding points to a concrete problem in this version.
Verify and revise
The Elephant checks the finding and makes an authorized repair.
Review again
A fresh Goldfish examines the new version without the earlier verdict.
Try it on your next change
After installing the plugin, open your repository in Codex and ask:
Sources and attribution
Dave Rensin introduced the Elephant-Goldfish model. Vladyslav Shvedov published the five upstream workflows under the MIT license. Oliver Newth adapted them for this Codex plugin.
This is an independent adaptation. The bundle preserves the upstream MIT license and copyright notice. Its research notes document the adaptation.