Date: 2026-04-28
This study compares two recent captured coding-agent runs that were asked to build a browser-based JavaScript module for creating bespoke AI agents. The requested module needed runtime selection between Anthropic Messages API and OpenAI/Codex Responses API, developer-defined JavaScript tools, skills, context management and compaction, an asynchronous event-emitting agent loop, browser and Node.js usability, unit tests, documentation, and exactly one single-page web app demo.
Final output directories:
- Claude output:
/Users/keithlowery/horserace/claude - Codex output:
/Users/keithlowery/horserace/codex