I more meant feature-level differences. For instance, Claude Code has agent teams, and Codex CLI does not. Or for a while, Codex had "/goal" and Claude Code did not (though now Claude Code has it too). To your point, it is usually possible to polyfill these gaps either with custom code/skills/hooks or with third party plugins.

> To your point, it is usually possible to polyfill these gaps either with custom code/skills/hooks or with third party plugins.

It's literally one prompt away. If you're worried about errors, just threaten to sue Anthropic in the prompt and the quality of the answer instantly improves by 75%.