Would be neat to have a /coding-style command which allows for setting codex to use one specific style of coding

[mikeNickaloff]

Whats needed

• Add a /coding-style command to codex that allows for specifying what style of programming to use.
• Add options for /coding-style (current setup)
• Add functional style
• Add OOP style
• Add Procedural style
• Add modular style
• Add abstraction style
• Add pipeline style
• Others?

Examples:

spaghetti style (current style)

function processHandler(w) { 
   for (var i=0; i<3; i++) {  w=0; while (i != w) { x += a; b -= c; c * 3; w++; } { b = w + 3 } }
}

functional style

function myFunction(callback) { console.log("running myFunction") | return callback() }
var a = myFunction(function() { return "b" })  
a  = "b"  w/ console message

OOP syle

class Thing { Thing() { }; otherThing: null }
class Thing1 extends Thing { 
   Thing1() { this.otherThing = new Thing2(this) }
   doSomething() { console.log("something"); }
}
class Thing2 extends Thing { 
  Thing2(thing1) { this.otherThing = thing1; }
}

var t1 = Thing1();
// t1.otherThing == Thing2(t1);

Procedural style

function handleProcessor(w) { console.log("processor") }
function handleOptionalChanges(w) { console.log("processor") }
function controlFeatures(w) { console.log("processor") }

var a = handleProcessor(a);
 a = handleOptionalChanges(a);
a = controlFeatures(a);

Modular style

import { a, b } from ./c.mjs
b.loadModules(a)
b.executeProcess()

Abstraction Style

class AbstractButton { 
   button { }
}
class CustomButtion {
  AbstractButton { text: "Special button" }
}

Pipeline style

find * | grep ".js"| xargs -I{} cat {} | base64

[etraut-openai]

By default, Codex will generally attempt to replicate the style of the code it's modifying (for existing code bases). If you'd like to steer its coding style for a new code base, you can give it an example using a prompt, a skill, an AGENTS.md file, or by pointing it to an existing code base in another directory or git repo.

[mikeNickaloff]

Yeah but it doesn't really mimic the code base so much as it always uses procedural programming in spaghetti code format -- at least not without context spamming all fuctiions and definitions in the codebase first so that it is able to properly connect abstraction layers etc -- but that runs the context window down to nothing in very short time.

[etraut-openai]

If you'd like to propose a specific feature, you're welcome to create a feature request in our issue tracker. We generally prioritize features based on community upvotes.