Codex Power User Workshop
A full day of turning Codex from "another CLI" into a repeatable, trustworthy development system — rebuilt here as a self-paced course you can actually keep.
How to use this follow-up
Pick a lesson
Each lesson is a self-contained chunk of the workshop — watch-free, read-paced.
Learn the ideas
Plain-English recaps, key concepts, and the moments worth pausing on.
Go deeper
Curated references and recommendations point you to the real tools and docs.
Make it stick
Interactive quizzes, checklists, and challenges turn watching into doing.
Part 1 · Morning
Foundations: escape token limits, orchestrate your terminal, and give your agents memory.
Escape the Token Ceiling
Offload heavy thinking to a browser so you never burn your Codex quota again.
00:05:44 → 00:30:30Command Your Terminal Like an Orchestra
Run a manager agent that spins up worker panes from plain English.
00:30:26 → 00:53:29Give Your Agents a Memory
Agent-managed folders, gitignore partitioning, and living check-back files.
00:53:29 → 01:10:09Part 2 · After the morning break
Building trust: source-of-truth context, prompting techniques, and designing with images and video.
Source of Truth Over Stale Memory
Trust the code, snapshot a million tokens, and capture design in design.md.
01:20:25 → 01:38:20The 5 Monkeys & Perspective Prompting
Throw many cheap attempts at a problem and inspect them like a pro.
01:38:20 → 02:00:36Design With Images & Video
Generate a look, hand it to an agent, and let video carry your intent.
02:00:36 → 02:27:33Part 3 · After lunch
Going autonomous: hooks, self-improving loops, background daemons, and code as a throwaway artifact.
Hooks, Skills & the Ralph Loop
Intercept the agent's lifecycle and encode reusable expertise.
03:10:22 → 03:33:48Self-Improving Loops & Deterministic Gates
Let agents read their own logs, fix themselves, and pass hard gates.
03:33:48 → 03:57:36Background Daemons & Agent Swarms
Spin up self-aware scripts and swarms that run while you sleep.
03:57:36 → 04:22:29Codex Daemons & Overnight Crons
The context triad, agent archetypes, and work that happens overnight.
04:22:29 → 04:50:54Code as a Throwaway Artifact
Natural-language contracts, video-as-requirements, and living guardrails.
04:50:54 → 05:18:21