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Have Codex review your agent transcripts and suggest skills
A developer asked Codex to read his past coding-agent session transcripts and suggest improvements to his setup. It noticed he kept repeating the same instruction about implementing design docs with subagents and proposed turning it into a reusable skill, which he now uses.
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- Codex
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- @johnjianwang on X
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Credit: this use case was shared by @johnjianwang on X. Summary written by Kitbox; see the original for full details.
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Our own starter prompt. Fill in the brackets, then paste it into Codex or your agent of choice.
Starter prompt
Read my coding-agent session transcripts in [folder]. Find instructions I give repeatedly across sessions. For the top 3, propose a reusable skill or rule file with a name, when it should trigger, and the exact steps. Don't change any files yet; just show me the proposals.
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