scrollback — Monday June 8

Codex bundles automations, worktrees, skills, and sub-agents

Vaibhav outlines five Codex-native pieces: autonomous discovery loops, isolated worktrees, codified project skills, tool connectors, and verification sub-agents, all driven by markdown state. The setup matches your focus on CLI-friendly agent SDK patterns and token-efficient workflows rather than raw model spend.

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb

You can do this directly in the Codex App:

1. Automations to run autonomous discovery and triage
2. Worktrees to work on isolated features
3. Skills to codify your project/ dev specific knowledge
4. Plugins/ Connectors to connect to tools that you work with
5. Sub-agents to ideate and verify work

All of this with a simple markdown/ linear for state tracking is all you need!

Bonus: you can distill this all in one thread and have it spin up projects/ threads as needed

Jun 7, 2026 View on X →

https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2063713960495558940

Build loops that prompt agents instead of prompting them directly

Steinberger's reminder shifts the unit of work from single prompts to meta-loops that generate and refine agent instructions. The distinction matters for your $440 stack when measuring cost-per-task on repeated Codex or Claude Code runs.

Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

Jun 7, 2026 View on X →

https://x.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627