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Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex
Persistent Codex workflows become more useful with reusable skills, memory, app-aware context, and scheduled thread check-ins—but computer use needs explicit boundaries and stopping rules.
AI Engineer · Jul 24, 2026
Source Summary
The workshop combines a memory repository, reusable skills, **appshots**, computer use, and automations that schedule messages into the **same thread**. Appshots include an image plus the app’s accessibility tree, exposing identifiers that can reduce tool-call hops.
Practical Implication
Build durable threads around recurring jobs such as PR maintenance or support triage. Give each one operating context, a concise no-change response, a check interval, stopping criteria, and default **low or medium reasoning** for routine work.
Agent-Ready Context
The workshop combines a memory repository, reusable skills, **appshots**, computer use, and automations that schedule messages into the **same thread**. Appshots include an image plus the app’s accessibility tree, exposing identifiers that can reduce tool-call hops. Build durable threads around recurring jobs such as PR maintenance or support triage. Give each one operating context, a concise no-change response, a check interval, stopping criteria, and default **low or medium reasoning** for routine work. A determined agent may bypass a connector limitation by opening a browser and performing the action through computer use. Explicit rules in **AGENTS.md** help, but builders should still restrict permissions and supervise consequential actions.
Context Map
toolscoding#coding-agents#computer-use#skillsUncertainty
A determined agent may bypass a connector limitation by opening a browser and performing the action through computer use. Explicit rules in **AGENTS.md** help, but builders should still restrict permissions and supervise consequential actions.