Screen interview code submissions with a Codex review agent

A commenter uses Codex with a targeted agents.md for front-line code reviews, rejecting submissions with too many files changed or added.

What They Did

A commenter said they set up ChatGPT Codex with a targeted agents.md file to handle first-pass reviews of coding submissions. The agent reviewed each submission against simple gate rules and automatically rejected ones with too many files changed or added; the human still chose the rules and used the agent as the front-line screener.

How It Went

The post gives no metrics, examples, or comparison to manual review. It only claims this was being used to fight low-quality, AI-assisted submissions earlier in the hiring funnel.

Worth Knowing

The useful catch is how narrow the filter was: they tuned it around obvious review heuristics like file-count and added/changed-file limits, not a full autonomous hiring decision.