Author: Markos Symeonides

AI Guides

Private Codex Cloud Playbook: Rehearse One Static-Documentation Dependency Upgrade and Produce Human-Reviewed Evidence
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 46 minutes

1. Establish the rehearsal contract: one dependency, one private environment, one human decision This playbook gives a documentation-platform maintainer a bounded job: prepare a repeatable, owner-private Codex Cloud setup and obtain a draft go/no-go evidence packet for one static-documentation dependency upgrade. The packet is material for a named human reviewer,…

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AI Comparison

ChatGPT Sign-In, a Responses Gateway, or Ollama/LM Studio? Choosing a Codex Connection Mode for Controlled Documentation Maintenance
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 45 minutes

Set the bounded job and separate connection choice from execution authority Hypothetical job: an authorised Documentation Steward may inspect only /docs, a supplied release-note source packet and a style guide. It may create a local draft diff, but it cannot publish, merge, change application code or contact external systems. In…

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ChatGPT Prompts

25 ChatGPT Prompts for a Private, Draft-Only Marking-Calibration Pack
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 59 minutes

Set the assessment boundary before opening a chat: permitted sources, workspace choice, and the five-field control header A private Project is the documented reusable workspace option for keeping the approved brief, rubric, de-identified/fictitious samples, instructions, and associated chats together; its availability is not universal. Editorial recommendation: choose this option when…

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Guides

Codex AGENTS.md in a Monorepo: An Instruction-Resolution Preflight Before a Scoped Refactor
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 45 minutes

Set the Boundary: What an Instruction-Resolution Preflight Is—and Is Not An instruction-resolution preflight answers a narrower question than “Can Codex refactor this service?” It asks which instruction sources are relevant to one named working directory, what those sources say, and who must resolve uncertainty before code work is authorised. The…

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Tutorials

Build a Read-Only Codex Localization-Key Completeness Audit with Two Custom Subagents
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 47 minutes

Define the Pre-Edit Localisation Evidence Contract A localisation-key completeness audit should begin with an agreement about evidence, not a request to “fix localisation”. The narrow job here is to inspect one specifically authorised repository and return a draft report before any person changes user interface (UI)The controls and visual surfaces…

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News

Codex CLI 0.162.0 Adds Custom-Provider Capability Overrides—Why Live Web and Remote Compaction Still Need Proof
ByMarkos Symeonides October 13, 2026 Reading Time: 45 minutes

The 8 October 0.162.0 event: a narrow configuration change, precisely dated OpenAI published the stable Codex command-line interface (CLI)A text-based interface for running commands and tools. Open glossary entry release rust-v0.162.0 on 8 October 2026, and its release notes list configuration of live-web-access and remote-compaction capabilities for custom Responses-compatible providers…

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Prompting Guides

Controlled Slack-to-Codex Cloud Bug-Fix Intake with @ChatGPT
ByMarkos Symeonides October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 Reading Time: 38 minutes

Run controlled Slack-to-Codex Cloud bug intake with @ChatGPT, separate requester access, spending checks, scoped prompts and mandatory human review.

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Featured

Appshots vs Image Inputs vs Browser Annotations: Choose the Right Visual Context for One UI Defect
ByMarkos Symeonides October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 Reading Time: 37 minutes

Compare Codex Appshots, image inputs and browser annotations for one visual defect, with current access limits, fresh evidence and human review.

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ChatGPT Prompts

25 ChatGPT Prompts to Turn an Authorised Facilities Walk-Through Scan into a Reviewable Corrective-Action Register
ByMarkos Symeonides October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 Reading Time: 48 minutes

Use 25 source-led ChatGPT prompts to turn an authorised facilities scan into a draft action register, preserving evidence, uncertainty and human review.

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Guides

Build an MCP 2.0 Document-Comment Event Source for Human-Reviewed Draft Revisions in ChatGPT Work
ByMarkos Symeonides October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 Reading Time: 41 minutes

Build a scoped MCP 2.0 document-comment source for ChatGPT Work, with verified delivery, duplicate handling and private drafts that await human review.

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