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content/dst/codex/2025q4-codex-evaluation.md

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+---
+title: Codex Evaluation
+tags:
+  - "2025q4"
+  - "dst"
+  - "codex"
+draft: false
+description: "Test Codex on each new version or requested feature
+and look for regressions,
+learn scaling properties and run scaling studies."
+---
+
+`vac:dst:codex:2025q4-codex-evaluation`
+
+
+## Description
+Test Codex on each new version or requested feature
+and look for regressions if this is required.
+Help Codex with testing and benchmarking new features.
+
+### Background
+
+We want to learn specific, actionable information
+about Codex's behaviour
+and how it is evolving over time
+with each new release
+and with each thing we are specifically asked to check and test.
+
+We will use a combination of real world testing,
+theoretical analysis and experiments.
+
+### Narratives
+We will support the Conduit of Expertise narrative directly
+by analysing and evaluating new Codex releases and their features,
+both with regards to features they have today
+and with regards to how that compares to past behaviour.
+
+We will:
+
+* Enable improvements to Codex
+  by allowing for repeatable, measureable
+  and real world insights into Codex,
+  all the way from theory to practice and back.
+* Reduce the risk of a Codex regression
+  making it into a new release of Codex.
+
+Additionally, these efforts will contribute
+to the Premier Research destination narrative by:
+
+* Improving and strengthening our relationship with the Codex team
+  and improving the quality and reputation of IFT's work, inside
+  and outside of Codex.
+
+  
+### Background
+
+### Narratives
+
+We will support the Conduit of Expertise narrative directly
+by providing valuable insights to Codex
+that allow them to understand how Codex performs
+in comparison to common and popular systems in the "altruistic" space.
+
+
+## Task List
+
+### Codex-in-Status
+
+* fully qualified name: `vac:dst:codex:2025q4-codex-evaluation:codex-in-status`
+* owner: Alberto
+* status: not started
+* start-date: 2025/11/03
+* end-date: 2025/11/15
+
+#### Description
+
+Assist the Codex team to check the functionality of
+replacing bittorrent usage in status go (in the Community History Service).
+Evaluate if the new feature is working as expected by trying to assert:
+1. Presence of archive in filesytem
+2. Presence of messages in status DB
+
+#### Deliverables
+- PRs/Issues/Docs/Reports

content/dst/index.md

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 * [[dst/waku/2025q4-waku-evaluation|waku-evaluation]]
 * [[dst/waku/2025q4-waku-scaling|waku-scaling]]
 
+### `codex`
+* [[dst/codex/2025q4-codex-evaluation|codex-evaluation]]
+
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 ## 2025q3 `vac:dst:`
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