I was a bit interested to do a replication and see if better harness could avoid some of the problems they ran w/ context management, poor instruction following, etc and it looks like yes, it's definitely possible.
I used Codex w/ 5.2 xhigh and a relatively simple AGENTS.md - I have some session-analysis as well. The original replication was 47 minutes, then another 30 minutes of gap filling, and finally about 30 minutes of writing an extension to take the work a bit further, with Claude Code Opus 4.6 doing some documentation cleanup and verification.
Here's my repo: https://github.com/lhl/claudecycles-revisited
I used Codex w/ 5.2 xhigh and a relatively simple AGENTS.md - I have some session-analysis as well. The original replication was 47 minutes, then another 30 minutes of gap filling, and finally about 30 minutes of writing an extension to take the work a bit further, with Claude Code Opus 4.6 doing some documentation cleanup and verification.