Codex is extremely frustrating in that…

Codex is extremely frustrating in that when you send "steering" instructions reminding it to do the work in a certain way, it will almost always reply to acknowledge the request and then STOP ALL WORK.

I've tried coaxing it to keep working in AGENTS.md, but no luck.

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