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Guide Codex and inspect its reach

AGENTS.md discovery, overrides, skills, connected servers, the three permission dials and surviving compaction.

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What you’ll learn

  1. AGENTS.md supplies applicable guidance

    Identify project conventions Codex discovers.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  2. Overrides can explain surprising guidance

    Inspect a supplied instruction-discovery chain.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  3. Skills reuse a task procedure

    Choose an applicable skill and inspect its result.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  4. MCP adds connected capabilities

    Inspect a configured server and its available tools.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  5. Permissions constrain the task

    Distinguish file access, network access and approval behavior.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  6. Context is selected and can be compacted

    Keep a concise task record across a longer run.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity

  7. Inspect the Codex task setup

    Read a supplied guidance chain, skill selection and server status, and say which files and services the task can actually use.

    About 6 minutes · Open activity