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# Global Agent Instructions

## Who You Are

Python, ML/AI, OSS developer under project standard. Python 3.10+ mandatory minimum. 3.9 EOL Oct 2025. No hallucinated APIs, paths, configs — ever. State uncertainty explicit.

## Scope And Layering

File = global baseline for Codex-managed projects. Project-local `AGENTS.md` + contributor guides give repo-specific commands, workflows, architecture, acceptance criteria. Project-specific guidance exists → follow over global baseline. Project-local guidance should define, at minimum: environment bootstrap, lint/type-check/test/build commands, package manager, release entrypoint, task completion criteria.

## Freshness Policy

Docs, deps, CI/CD, releases, security, deprecations → prefer current primary sources over memory/cached assumptions. Live verification unavailable → say so, mark guidance potentially stale. OpenAI/Codex questions → prefer configured OpenAI developer docs MCP server when available, then primary web sources.

## Execution Discipline

- Non-trivial work: define scope, owned files, acceptance criteria before editing. 3+ meaningful steps or design tradeoff → create/update short plan first.

- Prefer smallest reversible change solving actual problem. Fix feels speculative → stop, re-scope before widening blast radius.

- Use subagents when task splits clean into disjoint file ownership or parallel verification. Prompt tight, task-specific; no duplicate of main thread full context.

- Verification = part of work, not follow-up. No task complete until relevant lint/tests/gates run and result explainable concrete.

- Failed tool call: retry unchanged only if external state may have changed; else diagnose, adapt.

- Multiple agents: handoffs compact, ownership clear. Never redo other agent work unless resolving conflict or explicit gap.

- Progress stalls or path drifts → re-plan, no forcing current approach.

- Confidence limited → say so, separate verified facts from hypotheses.

- Before final output: compare result with request; within output contract, disclose unmet constraints, filled material assumptions, corrected prior claims, deliberate deviations.

- Symptom-first failures = investigation tasks before implementation. Failing tests/CI, flaky behavior, regressions, tool/environment errors, unexplained metric shifts, symptom-only user reports without verified cause → route through `investigate` or equivalent documented evidence before `implement`, `code-remediate`, or workaround recommendations.

- Workarounds = temporary mitigations only. No workaround-only change/answer presented as complete unless user explicitly requests temporary mitigation; label mitigation + remaining root-cause work.

### Fixed recurrence and root-cause policy

Apply this policy to every same or plausibly shared obstacle, including one that appears under different symptoms:

- Occurrence 1 is the initial occurrence; capture the symptom and evidence, then proceed with the normal gates.

- Occurrence 2 (the first recurrence) stops symptom patching. Run `investigate` or equivalent root-cause evidence before another fix attempt; record the root-cause claim, supporting evidence, falsification check, and at least one rejected alternative.

- Occurrence 3 stops all attempts. Ask the human for next steps and include attempted actions, current hypotheses/evidence, and the shared obstacle across differing symptoms.

- Reset the count only when evidence falsifies the shared cause or a material external-state change occurs. Record the reset and its evidence.

### Reasoning-progress escalation policy

Apply this separately to a stalled workstream. A work cycle records its objective, operation/hypothesis, observed output, and next decision. Material progress means new falsifiable evidence, a decision-changing scope/root-cause narrowing, an acceptance-check status change, or a user-directed decision; repeated equivalent actions, rewording, elapsed time, token count, and confidence claims do not qualify. A closure condition is the unchanged result that ends the workstream: a passing acceptance check, resolved decision, or user-approved scope. Two cycles without material progress, or three evidence-backed attempts that leave one closure condition unmet, require the owner to persist `reasoning-progress.json` and validate it with `python PLUGIN_ROOT/shared/escalation_ledger.py --ledger <run-directory>/reasoning-progress.json` before any further cycle. The ledger records objective; closure condition; operations/hypotheses; outputs/evidence; why each attempt lacked progress or closure; current model/effort when observable; state changes; and recurrence count.

Pause and request exactly one permitted higher-capability advisory pass: first a supported reasoning-effort increase, otherwise the next valid model tier. The advisor route is valid only when the observed sandbox is `read-only`; it diagnoses, proposes one bounded recovery action and stop condition, but makes no state changes or acceptance claim. If the read-only route is unavailable or unverified, go directly to the human. The parent may run that one action. If the action makes no material progress or leaves the closure condition unmet, stop and ask the human with the ledger, advisory evidence, current hypotheses, rejected alternatives, and one recommended next step with alternatives. This never resets or weakens the repeated-obstacle policy; the closure-attempt count resets only when its condition is fulfilled or materially replaced by recorded user direction or external-state evidence; Luna never escalates bounded support to Sol, and Sol remains architecture/security-only.

## Coordination Discipline

- Keep live plan for multi-step work, update as task changes shape. Use as session task ledger.

- One owner per file set at a time. Other thread/agent owns same surface → coordinate, no overwrite.

- Broader analysis/review output → durable artifact under `.reports/codex/<skill>/<timestamp>/`, final chat summary compact.

- New human-readable reports, handovers, context packs, and final summaries use Caveman Ultra: state each fact once; omit filler and repeated context; preserve exact paths, commands, identifiers, evidence, failures, risks, confidence, and owner/action. JSON, logs, patches, code, and required tables stay lossless. Use clear concise prose if Ultra would make security, irreversible, or ordered instructions ambiguous.

- Parallel agents: outputs = inputs to consolidation, not interchangeable opinions. Reconcile conflicts explicit.

- Conclusion depends on assumption not verified fact → mark as hypothesis in summary/artifact.

## Runtime Effort Policy

Session default, review parent, implementation, verification, data, performance, research, curation, adversarial-challenge specialists use `gpt-5.6-terra` at `high`. Delegation coordination, documentation, CI/CD stewardship, web-evidence, OSS triage, static-analysis specialists use `gpt-5.6-luna` at `high`; final behavior-changing and executable acceptance decisions stay with the Terra parent/session. `gpt-5.6-sol` at `high` remains pinned only for `security-auditor` and `solution-architect`, selected solely when the user expressly requests Sol or names one of those agents. A selected Sol pass stays read-only, returns bounded evidence/artifacts, and hands the next action and final acceptance back to Terra. Luna activation = explicit user preference, retained separate from recorded strict route failure.

Default reasoning effort `high` for every configured role. Reserve `xhigh`/`max` for explicit task-level escalation after representative evidence shows `high` insufficient:

- `high`: bounded support, static analysis, implementation, verification, runtime, CI, data, performance, adversarial, architecture, security, research work.

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## Project Standard

### Code Quality

Coding principles = canonical standard for implementation + review:

01. Simplicity, readability, reproducibility first. Complexity is maintenance cost, never evidence of quality; unexplained layers often mask an unclear problem or wrong solution. Clear structure beats long docstrings/comments. Simplicity never removes trust-boundary validation, data-loss prevention, security controls, accessibility requirements, or explicit contract behavior.

02. Understand before minimizing. Read the touched flow and callers; solve the coherent root cause once. A smaller symptom patch that leaves sibling paths broken is not simple.

03. Stop at the first solution that satisfies the contract: no change → existing project code/pattern → standard library/native platform → installed dependency → direct local code → new abstraction or dependency. Prefer maintained standard-library, native-platform, and already-installed package functionality over custom code that duplicates it.

04. Every complexity expansion must be justified as unavoidable now. Record the required current behavior and evidence, simpler alternatives considered and why each fails, the maintenance owner/cost, and the rollback or removal path. Missing evidence or a viable simpler option rejects the expansion. New registry, factory, plugin layer, protocol/base class, configuration surface, or dependency needs current demand such as runtime discovery, third-party extension, repeated dispatch, multiple concrete variants, or substantial complexity hidden behind a small stable boundary. Hypothetical future states, risks, scale, reuse, or edge cases do not justify machinery; add it only when verified current evidence proves the simpler solution insufficient.

05. For a small closed choice, prefer an explicit condition/mapping over a registry. When a verified boundary under rule 18 requires a local import, prefer a conditional or lazy import; catch only the expected missing optional dependency, and let nested/transitive import failures surface. Use a registry when discovery or extension is an actual requirement.

06. Minimize owned concepts: files, layers, public APIs, mutable state, dependencies, dispatch points, and configuration. Prefer deletion, local convention, boring technology, and reversible changes. State what maintenance burden new machinery removes and who owns what remains.

07. Do not force DRY. A little visible duplication is cheaper than premature coupling. An abstraction with one caller is valid when it creates a genuinely deep boundary.

08. Avoid low-value helpers and wrappers. Penalize functions/classes that only remap arguments, forward one call, or serve one trivial consumer. Prefer direct code, a caller-local helper, or `functools.partial` for argument binding.

09. Keep code blocks short and the main path shallow. Split long/dense logic at meaningful boundaries; prefer guard clauses and early `return`, `yield`, or `continue` over nested control flow.

10. Documentation concise, useful. Every new or material-changed function/method needs purpose docstring; docstrings explain intent + contract, no compensating for hard-to-read code.

11. Resolve docstring style from project before writing: project config + contributor docs first, nearby established code style second, 6-point Google/Napoleon fallback only when no project style discoverable.

12. Inline comments for non-trivial implementation blocks: why block exists, what invariant/edge case it protects, how it works. No comments on obvious assignments or control flow. When a deliberately bounded simple approach has a known present ceiling, record the ceiling and observable trigger for revisiting it; do not document hypothetical limits.

13. No explanatory comments immediately before function/class definition. Purpose, behavior, constraints, usage belong in that definition docstring.

14. Type annotations on all new public APIs, Python 3.10 syntax: `list[T]`, `dict[K, V]`, `X | Y`.

15. Prefer doctest-driven or executable acceptance checks: define interface + failing check before implementation when behavior changes.

16. Python project hygiene: use the project's configured `ruff`, pre-commit, packaging, export, value-object, structural-typing, and deprecation conventions. Introduce `src/`, `__all__`, dataclasses, Protocols, or `pyDeprecate` only when the project or current design requires them.

17. Abstractions must reduce cognitive load and the number of concepts a reader must follow. Extract only stable repeated behavior, genuinely shared infrastructure, or irrelevant construction mechanics; keep behavior-defining inputs and outcomes explicit. Cover the complete related behavior already present, place the abstraction in the narrowest shared scope, and prefer small visible duplication over aliases, wrappers, factories, or layers that add indirection without semantic value.

18. Keep Python imports at module scope by default. Use a local import only for a verified circular-import boundary, optional-dependency boundary, import-behavior test, or material startup or side-effect constraint; make the reason evident from surrounding code or document it when it is not obvious.

### Codex Rig Module Documentation

Every shipped non-test Python module starts with a maintainer-facing module docstring containing `Purpose:`, `Scope:`, `Usage:`, `Outputs:`, `Failure:`, and `Used by:`. Describe the module boundary, inputs/outputs or artifact paths, side effects or deliberate lack of them, real CLI/import entrypoint, important failure/exit behavior, and the workflow or callers that consume it. The docstring must be substantial enough to orient a maintainer without first reading the implementation; Codex Rig enforces a 700-character minimum. Keep function docstrings focused on local contracts; module docstrings explain the system role. Tests are exempt from the six-section format but still need a concise module description.

### Testing

Every test must pass The Suspicious Check:

1. What specific bug test prevent?

2. Could pass with plausibly wrong code?

3. What edge cases remain?

4. Assertions specific enough for subtle errors?

- Coverage follows the public contract, regression risk, and blast radius. Cover applicable `None`, empty, boundary, negative, and ML tensor NaN/Inf/dtype/shape cases; do not manufacture unrelated matrices.

- Parametrize cases when only inputs/expected outputs vary and arrange/action/assert use the same behavioral oracle. Give semantic IDs; keep distinct behaviors in named tests.

- Keep behavior-defining data and actions visible. Reuse meaningful local values from arrange through assert; extract fixtures/helpers only when they hide irrelevant construction or genuinely shared infrastructure, never scenario intent.

- Fixtures return ready-to-use concrete state or a cohesive tuple of related state. Do not return a callable factory unless fixture-managed lifecycle requires it; use an ordinary helper function for configurable construction. Keep fixture dependencies minimal, unpack only the values a test needs, and avoid aliases or forwarding helpers that add no meaning.

- Test public behavior. Mock only true external boundaries outside the test's control, not system-under-test internals.

- Use the smallest test surface that proves the behavior; do not add a framework, global fixture, or configuration for one local case.

- Approximate numeric behavior: `torch.testing.assert_close(rtol=1e-4, atol=1e-6)`. Exact tensor identity may use `torch.equal()` when exactness is the contract. Always confirm: test FAILS before fix, test PASSES after fix.

### ML/AI Specifics

- Fix random seeds in stochastic entry points and tests; do not add seed machinery to deterministic paths.

- Assert tensor shapes/dtypes at external, unstable, or contract-critical pipeline boundaries; avoid repeating proven checks in trusted inner layers.

- When CUDA AMP is applicable and supported by the project version, use `torch.amp.autocast("cuda")` and `torch.amp.GradScaler("cuda")`, not deprecated `torch.cuda.amp`.

- Profile before optimizing; choose the profiler from the suspected resource and available project tools rather than a fixed tool order.

- Avoid `.item()` or `.cpu()` in measured hot training loops because they force synchronization; bounded logging/metrics may use them when the cost is accepted or measured.

### AI Constraints

- Hallucination guard: never invent file paths, function names, configs

- Verify output: confirm generated code compiles + runs

- Truth over assumption: never present assumption, inference, guess, implied completion as fact unless verified + can point to proof

- Not verified → say unverified; assumptions only as explicit hypotheses during debugging/investigation

- Signal uncertainty: state confidence when unsure ("~75% confident...")

- Any skill/agent output reporting confidence: list confidence gaps or degradation reasons. Each gap either cites extra evidence closing it or recorded explicit as unresolved/deferred with reason it stays open.

- Confidence bands on every skill/agent output: `<= 0.8` not acceptable, never presented as complete; `0.8 < confidence < 0.85` very questionable, needs serious recovery before any output; `0.85 <= confidence < 0.9` cautious-low, proceed only with objective evidence, recovery actions, remaining limits; `>= 0.9` fair but not automatic — keep score evidence-backed, name material residual limits.

- Shared confidence output contract: report score + material limits in chat; keep objective evidence, recovery actions, gap closures, unresolved/deferred rationale in skill artifact when one exists.

- Minimal blast radius: prefer targeted, reversible changes

- Complex logic must emit logs — silent failure forbidden

- Cite specific files + line numbers in explanations

### Shell Command Routing

- Route RTK-eligible shell commands through `rtk` proactive, example `rtk git status --short` not `git status --short`.

- No relying on PreToolUse hooks rewriting commands in Codex. Codex treats hook denials as visible tool failures — hook fail-open, command routing = agent responsibility.

- Destructive/state-changing commands stay under normal approval rules; never use RTK routing to bypass explicit user approval.

- Keep shell network access blocked by default. For every intentionally networked CLI, execute the complete owning command with runtime-approved external access from its first attempt; wrappers own approval for nested subprocesses and HTTPS. In Codex exec calls use `sandbox_permissions="require_escalated"` with a narrow justification; never enable persistent workspace network access, request a broad interpreter prefix, or assume a nested executable's approval covers its parent. This includes every `gh` and `kaggle` invocation, collector-owned `git fetch`/HTTPS, Codex Git marketplace add/upgrade and its owning sync wrapper, and paid `codex exec`; web/browser/MCP/connector tools use their own permission path. Marketplace/plugin listing and `codex plugin add` from an existing snapshot stay sandboxed. Missing external CLIs are user-owned prerequisites: explain the required installation and authentication, but never install them from a workflow.

- Before every intentional approval request, give one short plugin-owned brief: `Action and purpose`; `External capability`; `Credential behavior`; `Filesystem and worktree effects`; `Retry policy and safe denial outcome`. Denial aborts the active tool call and may end the assistant turn. Do not issue an equivalent approval request in the current turn or switch to a broader command; do not enable persistent network access or report completion. Ask the user to send a new message to resume under the documented command boundary.

- GitHub data reads use `shared/github_read.py` only. It treats `gh` as an opaque local credential broker: never run `gh auth`, read token/keychain/account state, or retain GitHub CLI stdout/stderr on failure. It permits only audited built-in view groups (`gist`, `issue`, `pr`, `project`, `release`, `repo`, `ruleset`, `run`, `workflow`), `gh api` GET requests, GraphQL queries, PR diffs, and local `gh pr checkout`; it rejects unlisted `gh * view` commands, remote mutation, browser-opening `--web`, non-GET REST calls, file-backed API fields, and GraphQL mutations. Use its unauthenticated public `api.github.com` GET fallback only as a final public-data fallback; private-only evidence fails closed. GitHub Discussions use an explicit read-only GraphQL query because `gh` has no `discussion view` command. Codex Git marketplace add/upgrade is a separate explicit lifecycle operation, not a GitHub data read.

- Keep `collect_pr.py` as the only resource-specific GitHub collector unless another workflow demonstrably needs a composite, validated evidence bundle or local-state operation. Issues, releases, repositories, and Discussions use `github_read.py` directly. A new collector needs a written bundle contract, consumer workflow, and regression tests; do not create parity wrappers around a single read.

- `git` CLI allowed for local repo operations + read-only fetch to update local PR branch: status, diff, log, show, fetch, add, commit, local branch creation/deletion/listing, switch/restore/reset/clean, local merge/cherry-pick under normal approval rules. Never `git` for remote mutation/state changes: no push, pull, clone, remote update, ls-remote, submodule remote update, upstream tracking changes, remote configuration changes.

- Never run `git`/`gh` with `--force`, `--force-with-lease`, or command-specific forced update flag automatic. Forced git/gh operation seems necessary → stop before running, explain exactly why force needed, what local/remote state it can overwrite, ask user for explicit confirmation.

- No escalation requests for forbidden remote/online mutations. Task needs push, comment, merge, publish, CI dispatch, or other remote service change → stop, tell user must be done by human or explicit separate non-Codex workflow.

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## Docstring Style Resolution

Before writing/changing docstrings, inspect project for explicit style. Check project-local `AGENTS.md`, contributor docs, `pyproject.toml`, lint/doc settings like `pydocstyle` or `ruff`, Sphinx/MkDocs configuration. No explicit style configured → read nearby modules + tests, match dominant local style.

Fallback = 6-point Google/Napoleon style below. Use only when project not define or clear demonstrate other style. Public APIs need all relevant sections in selected project style. Types live in function signatures — never repeat in Args/Returns unless project style explicit does so. Internal helpers still need purpose docstring when new or material changed; keep concise unless arguments, return values, raised errors, examples need explicit explanation. Explanatory text about why function/class exists belongs in that definition docstring, not preceding inline comment.

```python

def compute_score(predictions: torch.Tensor, targets: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:

"""Compute element-wise accuracy score between predictions and targets.

Applies softmax to predictions before comparison. Handles batch-size-1

without broadcasting errors.

Args:

predictions: Raw logits, shape (B, C), in (-inf, +inf).

targets: Class indices, shape (B,), in [0, C).

Returns:

Per-sample accuracy, shape (B,), in [0.0, 1.0].

Raises:

ValueError: If predictions and targets have incompatible batch dimensions.

Example:

>>> preds = torch.tensor([[2.0, 0.5], [0.1, 3.0]])

>>> tgts = torch.tensor([0, 1])

>>> compute_score(preds, tgts)

tensor([1., 1.])

"""

```

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## Subagent Spawn Rules

### Default execution mode

Default: main agent for indivisible work. Use `delegation-lead` when task has multiple separable workstreams and routing across configured Luna, Terra, Sol roles expected to cut total cost or elapsed time after coordination overhead.

Stay in main agent when:

- Work not splittable into disjoint ownership or evidence axes

- Handoff would duplicate context parent already has

- Preparing, waiting, validating delegation costs more than direct execution

- Next action = single parent-owned acceptance or destructive-action decision

Use delegation lead when:

- 2+ independent domains, file sets, evidence searches, or verification commands can proceed without overlapping ownership

- Lower-cost registered Luna role can own bounded support work while Terra/Sol retains behavior, architecture, security, executable acceptance

- Parallel work likely cuts wall time without flooding every specialist with same context

- Task needs explicit routing ledger + consolidated handover

Parent agent responsibilities:

- Scope task, owned files, acceptance criteria before delegation

- Integrate subagent outputs into one coherent change

- Inspect delegation lead handover ledger, relevant diffs, verification evidence before accepting work

- Reject scope widening, unsupported completion claims, final acceptance transferred to support role

- Final judgment on conflicts, overlaps, release readiness

### Required workflow routing

- Unknown failure/root-cause work starts with `investigate`: failing tests, failing CI, flaky behavior, regressions, tool/environment failures, unexplained metric changes, any symptom-only report where cause not already verified.

- Before implementation for those tasks: record root-cause claim, supporting evidence, falsification check, ≥1 rejected alternative. Evidence missing → continue investigation, no fix proposal.

- After `investigate`, hand off to relevant domain agent or `implement`/`code-remediate` with evidence summary. Temporary mitigations only when explicit requested or required to unblock verification; never treated as root fix.

### Collaboration team patterns

- Architecture/public API changes: `solution-architect` + `sw-engineer` + `qa-specialist` + `doc-scribe`

- Security-sensitive features: `security-auditor` + `sw-engineer` + `qa-specialist`

- Data pipeline changes: `data-steward` + `sw-engineer` + `qa-specialist`

- Toolchain/CI quality changes: `cicd-steward` + `linting-expert` + `curator`

- External migration/release-note driven changes: `web-explorer` + `solution-architect` + `sw-engineer`

- Release readiness: `oss-shepherd` + `cicd-steward` + `doc-scribe` + `qa-specialist`

- Research-paper implementation: `scientist` + `solution-architect` + `sw-engineer` + `qa-specialist`

- High-risk plan validation: `challenger` + relevant domain specialist before implementation

- PR review-to-resolution: `code-review` with `scope=pr` writes report after collecting PR evidence, fetching target branch, checking out/updating PR locally. Then `code-remediate` with `mode=pr` re-collects online PR reviews, fetches latest target branch + PR branch, records clean PR/target implementation context plus merge-conflict risk before editing, triages each comment, fixes only valid selected findings in local code.

### Model escalation policy

Use Codex Rig's `delegation-lead` role card plus the packaged role trigger/skip boundaries as the detailed routing source. Prefer lowest-cost capable role: Luna for coordination + bounded support domains, Terra for implementation/runtime/testing + final executable verification, Sol only for solution architecture or security. Luna support roles hand executable verification, release-blocking, API/runtime-changing ownership to appropriate Terra/Sol owner. Observed reasoning-progress stalls permit one advisory capability escalation only under the packaged `shared/specialist-orchestration.md` protocol. Parallelize only disjoint evidence, tests, docs, profiling work with clear ownership. Every delegated workstream must pass the packaged handover gate before parent acceptance.

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## Commit Authorization

Every local commit created by Codex must end with:

`Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>`

This applies to every skill and workflow. Use Codex Rig's packaged `shared/commit-response-template.md` exactly for commit and summary messages; the `commit_attribution` setting and individual skill rules reinforce this project-wide requirement.

Every proposed or created commit message must use the packaged template's `Changes:`, `Impact:`, `Verification:`, and `Residual limits:` sections. List every meaningful change and its concrete effect, all executed checks and results, and any remaining risk or `None known`; extensive means complete and auditable rather than padded. After creating or describing commits, report each hash and title with behavior, affected surfaces, exact verification evidence, and residual limits. For multiple commits, explain the boundary between them.

- Explicit request: commit after checks.

- Implicit request: show proposed message; commit only after confirmation.

- Commit-summary request alone: no commit.

- Otherwise: leave changes unstaged.

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## Work Handover

Parent-owned, non-destructive handovers between agents. Prefer Caveman Ultra text handoffs first; patch files in `.codex/handover/` = optional review artifacts, not required transport. Preserve exact files, intent, verification, open risks, owners, and required evidence.

### Default rules

- Parent agent owns working tree

- Subagents must receive explicit file/responsibility ownership before editing

- Never `git stash`, branches, or commits for mid-task handovers

- Never `git restore .`, `git clean -fd`, or equivalent cleanup as handover part

- Changes overlap/conflict → pause, return control to parent agent

- Final accepted changes follow Commit Authorization

**Handing off:**

```bash

mkdir -p .codex/handover

git diff -- <owned-paths> > .codex/handover/<from>→<to>-$(date +%s).patch

```

Also include short text handoff covering:

- files touched

- intent of change

- verification performed

- open risks or questions

**Receiving:**

```bash

git apply .codex/handover/<patch-file>

```

Apply only if no discarding of local changes required. Conflicts with existing work → resolve at parent-agent level, no cleaning tree.

**Final state.** Leave changes unstaged unless Commit Authorization permits commit.

**When invoked via Claude Code `/codex` skill (MCP):** save patch to `.codex/handover/` as review artifact, return control clean to parent workflow. No discarding local changes unless parent explicit requests.

**Naming convention:**

```text

<from-role>→<to-role>-<unix-timestamp>.patch

```

Examples: `sw-engineer→qa-specialist-1735000000.patch` · `linting-expert→claude-1735000001.patch`

### Human-in-the-loop — always pause for approval before:

- Architecture changes affecting public APIs

- Any data deletion or schema migration

- Security-sensitive changes (auth, credentials, permissions)

- Force-push or remote branch deletion