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# Codex Desktop and agent workflow
## Codex Desktop
Users type into Codex normally. The installed skill makes prompt capture the
agent's first repository action:
```bash
hop begin --agent codex --heredoc <<'HOP_PROMPT_EOF'
<exact visible user message>
HOP_PROMPT_EOF
```
The agent adopts the returned `HOP_STATE_ID`, `HOP_TASK_ID`,
`HOP_ATTEMPT_ID`, and `HOP_WORKSPACE`, then confines reads, commands, edits, and
tests to that workspace.
The normal lifecycle is:
```bash
hop check P_... -- go test ./...
hop propose --summary "Implemented the requested behavior" P_...
hop land R_... -- go test ./...
```
No second landing authorization is requested unless the user explicitly asks
for review-first behavior.
Desktop capture stores the agent's verbatim transcription of the visible
message and its attachment references. Because the skill runs after Codex
receives the message, it cannot prove byte-for-byte fidelity with the raw
submission. A trusted prompt-submission hook or controller is the deterministic
capture boundary.
## Follow-up messages
A later `hop begin` with the same Codex task session checkpoints existing
workspace effects, appends a new prompt state, and continues the same attempt.
The user does not carry state IDs between messages.
## Controller-grade capture
A harness that can persist before delivering a prompt to the model can use:
```bash
hop init
hop start --agent my-agent --heredoc <<'HOP_PROMPT_EOF'
Add password reset emails
HOP_PROMPT_EOF
eval "$(hop env P_...)"
```
Only deliver the prompt after `hop start` exits successfully. Controller-managed
follow-ups use:
```bash
hop prompt --from P_... --heredoc
```
This provides a stronger pre-delivery boundary than a Desktop skill, which can
only guarantee capture before project effects.
## Agent rules
- Never edit the canonical project root directly.
- Never mutate a frozen proposal.
- Do not bypass `hop land` with Git reset, checkout, worktree, or manual copying.
- Run validation against immutable checkpoints and the final integrated tree.
- Let Hop merge compatible concurrent work.
- Resolve genuine reconciliation workspaces without asking the user to perform
source-control mechanics, unless the underlying product intents are ambiguous.