I Built an Open Engine That Connects Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex Together

According to AI developer Nate B Jones, most people using multiple AI agents spend their time doing something tedious: manually shuttling work between Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex. He built Open Engine to solve that problem. It's a shared task queue that lets your AI agents hand off work to each other directly, carrying context and sources along the way. The key insight: the real bottleneck isn't the intelligence of the models—it's the handoff between them. Without coordination, you become the hallway that every piece of work has to pass through. Open Engine changes that by creating a system where agents can see the same queue, claim tasks, and pass completed work downstream without human intervention. Jones walks through the practical setup, including how to move from prompt mode to work mode—treating your agents not as chatbots, but as parts of a coordinated workflow. The real test: whether work can actually leave your hands and stay within the agent system.

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