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Skills, tasks, and scheduled help (as product offers)
Skills, tasks, and scheduled help in ChatGPT Codex are power-ups, not day-one defaults. Climb a complexity ladder, hedge product renames, and never leave high-stakes deploys unattended.
Team habits and safety rails
Part 10 closes the Claude Code tutorial with team rails: shared CLAUDE.md and skills, required PRs and green CI, secrets policy, no…
Dates, time zones, and fiscal calendars
Time zones and fiscal calendars quietly break dashboards people trust. Learn to store UTC, display local time, separate calendar months from fiscal…
Exploring a repo safely
Part 2 of the ChatGPT Codex tutorial. Explore a repo safely: ask for a map with real paths, bound what you will…
Reviewing diffs, undoing, not shipping blind
Part 9 of the Claude Code tutorial. Review every agent change set: read the diff, run tests, check secrets and scope, then…
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