My AI Team on a Token Budget: Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Codex

Hi everyone! 👋

I’ve been trying a setup for my side projects, and I’m curious whether anyone else is doing something similar.

I set up a small team in Grok Bot on its lowest paid plan and gave the team access to Claude Code and Codex. I use entry-level paid plans for those tools too.

I gave every agent two rules:

1. Use Claude Code or Codex for the heavy lifting. My Grok Bot token budget is tighter, so I save it for short instructions and coordination. When a task involves digging through a project, making substantial changes, or reviewing a lot of code, the team hands it off to Claude Code or Codex.
2. Leave progress and handoffs in the shared workspace. The agents use tools already available on their machine, like spreadsheets and working folders, to keep track of what they did, where the files are, and what’s next. The next agent can pick up from there and keep bot-to-bot chat to a minimum.

So far, I’ve been getting more done, and it feels like I’m making better use of my token budget. A small thing that helps is having the next agent open a file with the test results instead of asking another agent to explain the whole task again.

Is anyone else running a setup like this? I’d love to hear what you delegate to Claude Code or Codex, how your agents hand off work, and whether you’ve noticed a difference in how quickly you hit your usage limits.