1) One 5x Claude sub, one pro lite codex sub

2) Not really, the value proposition on the subs are just so much greater.

3) I'm using Claude Code and Codex, crucially thru Muster[0] which I've been working on. It's a herdr inspired Libghostty-powered terminal which understands agents you're running, helps you manage them, supports remote devenvs, and it provides a CLI for agents to spawn, work, and message each other, no matter the harness and across machines.

4) I'm working on my own factory atm, which combines Muster and Kan[1] which is a offline, Kanban-as-plain-files-in-VCS project I'm working on and happens to work really well with agents. I recently added card dependencies to Kan and a kan ready command so I can have director agents orchestrate and hand out tasks based on what's ready and prioritized in Kan.

5) Not at this time. I played around with dots but I haven't been convinced it can do anything for me that my own solutions aren't better at.

[0] https://github.com/amterp/muster

[1] https://github.com/amterp/kan