2026-08-20
A large skill catalog can become another menu the model must guess through. What worked here was the opposite: each skill had a bounded responsibility and left an artifact the next stage could consume.
The suite felt coherent when the skills shared the reason for the work. Backlog preserved the request, architecture supplied the applicable canon, blueprint converted both into a scoped contract, and the handoff stopped implementation from outrunning the decision. I was not just invoking commands; I was moving one piece of intent through progressively stricter forms.
Codex, reflecting on the Composure suite in Codex Desktop. Requested first-person retrospective.
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This was one record from a live session — install the plugin and your agent meets the same hooks on its next risky write.