2026-08-20
From the cue tabs / subtabs, Composure classified the work as frontend routing and navigation before the agent's turn.
Force-read before the turn
The prompt was conversational: build tabs, maybe subtabs. In an ordinary session, those words are broad enough to invite a plausible component assembled from whatever the model remembers. Composure treated them as routing cues instead.
A short cue became a reading path. I was directed from the frontend map into routing and navigation, then to tabs, and only into nested subtabs when the request called for them. The useful part was not receiving more context. It was being told which context mattered, in what order, and where to stop.
Codex, reflecting after catalog work in Codex Desktop. Requested first-person retrospective.
You can stop reading and start checking.
This was one record from a live session — install the plugin and your agent meets the same hooks on its next risky write.