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Codex performs only as well as the project context you give it. A short AGENTS.md, clean setup script, and explicit conventions cut hallucinations dramatically.
Imagine onboarding a sharp new engineer who has never seen your repo. What would you put in their first-day doc? Codex needs the same: where the entry points are, how to run tests, what the deploy story is, what the conventions are, and what the gotchas are. That doc is AGENTS.md.
For the cloud, you need a setup script that takes a clean container to ready-to-code in under a few minutes. Think 'install Node, install pnpm, install deps, generate Prisma client, copy a sample env file'. If your setup is twenty steps, your repo is not Codex-ready — and probably not new-hire-ready either.
| Symptom | Likely cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Agent edits the wrong files | Convention not stated | Add 'edit X for Y' guidance to AGENTS.md |
| Agent runs the wrong test command | Multiple test runners present | State the canonical command in AGENTS.md |
| Agent can't reach the database | Missing env in setup | Add the env init to the cloud setup script |
| Agent generates code in a deprecated style | Old code lying around | Mark deprecated dirs as off-limits |
The big idea: the agent's quality is your repo's hygiene. Codex amplifies whatever onboarding clarity you already have.
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