Video · 2026-07-19

You're Probably Prompting Codex Wrong. This Helps.

The first answer a coding agent gives you is only as good as what you put in front of it. A skill that turns a rough request into one grounded prompt.

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Most of the time, the first answer a coding agent gives you is only as good as what you managed to put in front of it.

Which sounds obvious until you’re trying to explain what you need without accidentally getting handed a 46-step project plan, a feature you never asked for, or three paragraphs of “here are some considerations.”

So I made a skill for that. Codex Prompting takes a rough request, screenshot, bug report, spec, or repo task and turns it into one grounded prompt you can paste into OpenAI Codex. It gives the agent a clear outcome, the right authority, the evidence that matters, what not to touch, and a way to verify the work is actually done.