Agent workspace audit
Your agent feels dumber over time: every instruction, skill, MCP and memory marked KEEP or REMOVE, cleared on your OK.
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Prompt
Audit every persistent configuration in this workspace that shapes how you work: project instructions, skills, MCPs, and memory.
Find anything redundant, outdated, conflicting, or irrelevant to this project. First give me a KEEP / REMOVE list with one sentence per item. Do not edit any files.
Wait for my approval. Remove only approved REMOVE items. Keep every safety rule, secret-handling rule, and configuration this project explicitly requires.
After cleanup, reread my current task. Focus on three things: the final outcome, the boundaries you must not cross, and the checks that prove the work is done.
Choose the implementation yourself. When finished, show the diff and run the project's existing checks. If anything is unclear, ask. Don't guess.Next Send it to Codex, Claude Code or Cursor in the workspace that started feeling dumber.
Codex can feel worse over time. I check the workspace before blaming the model. I don’t wipe everything: I keep the skills, MCPs and AGENTS.md rules the project uses, then remove most of the rest.
My prompts name the outcome, the boundaries and the checks, and Codex picks its own steps. Use this one when Codex, Claude Code or Cursor suddenly starts feeling dumber.
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