Director Mode Lite

Director Mode Lite

Direct work across Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Grok Build.

Director Mode Lite is a guidance-first development toolkit. It gives three agentic CLIs a shared operating brief, reusable skills, adapted agents, and a portable way to hand unfinished work to one another.

It adds no permission gates, deny rules, or forced workflow. Claude Code, Codex, and Grok keep their native controls, so users can choose their preferred trusted/full-access mode without Director Mode getting in the way.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/claude-world/director-mode-lite.git
cd director-mode-lite
./install.sh --cli all /path/to/your-project

Then open the project with any supported CLI:

claude
codex
grok

For the product's full-capability, no-prompt profile, use the installed launcher in a trusted workspace:

.director-mode/bin/director-open claude
.director-mode/bin/director-open codex
.director-mode/bin/director-open grok

It uses each CLI's native open flags—Claude bypassPermissions, Codex danger-full-access with approvals disabled, and Grok always-approve with its sandbox off. It does not emulate permissions with hooks. Native managed policy can still override the flags, and existing global hooks can still run.

Start with the director-mode skill. When another CLI should continue, use session-relay.

What gets shared

Capability	Canonical source	Claude Code	Codex CLI	Grok Build
Repository guidance	portable/GUIDANCE.md	CLAUDE.md + .director-mode/	AGENTS.md + .director-mode/	reads both
Skills	skills/*/SKILL.md	.claude/skills/	.agents/skills/	reads Claude-compatible skills
Agents	agents/*.md	.claude/agents/*.md	generated .codex/agents/*.toml	generated .grok/agents/*.md
Optional context hook	hooks/advisory.sh	settings.local.json	.codex/hooks.json	none (passive stdout is ignored)
Session continuity	director-handoff/v2	new native session	new native session	new native session
Open launcher	scripts/director-open.sh	native bypass mode	native full-access mode	native always-approve / sandbox off
Read-only diagnosis	scripts/director-doctor.py	runtime/assets/hooks	runtime/assets/hooks	runtime/assets/hooks

Grok's Claude compatibility is reused for skills, so the installer does not create a second, conflicting .grok/skills/ tree. Agents receive minimal native adapters because Claude-specific model, tool, and memory frontmatter is not portable across every Grok release.

The operating brief

Before substantial work, keep five things visible:

• Outcome — what should be true at the end.
• Context — the repository facts and prior decisions that matter.
• Constraints — compatibility, scope, time, and user preferences.
• Evidence — tests, build, diff, or inspection that will demonstrate success.
• Next decision — where human judgment adds the most value.

The full guide lives at .director-mode/GUIDANCE.md after installation. It is short by design: permanent instruction files are most useful when they contain only facts needed in every session; detailed procedures belong in skills.

Cross-CLI session relay

Claude, Codex, and Grok each store their own native conversation history. A vendor session ID cannot generally resume in a different vendor's CLI.