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Note the Codex Override in the Codex Host-Safety README - #4093
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The README said the host-wide rules reach Codex through AGENTS.md without qualification. A non-blank AGENTS.override.md takes precedence, which the status reports as SHADOWED. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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An active documentation inconsistency remains: the README claims fleet rules are the only behavioral layer without limiting that statement to cases where no non-blank override exists.
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What changed in this PR
Updates the Codex host-safety README to document how a non-blank AGENTS.override.md takes precedence over AGENTS.md and shadows host-wide rules.
Changes:
- Documents override precedence and the resulting
SHADOWEDand not-current status. - Aligns the README with the global rules implementation and related host-setup guidance.
- Notes that the behavioral-layer claim should be scoped to the unshadowed case.
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| host-setup/agent-safety/codex/README.md | Documents Codex override precedence, shadowed status reporting, and the resulting host-wide rule behavior. |
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A non-blank AGENTS.override.md is itself a Codex instruction layer, so the fleet's rules are the fleet's only behavioral layer, and an override replaces the host-wide rules' place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Placed between the layer claim and "They include GOVERNANCE.md", the sentence made "They" read as the rules the override replaces, when the carried repository rules still apply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…kill (#4088) ## Summary Promotes one change and its review follow-ups from `develop` to `main`. - #4087: one action brings a host fully current for every coding agent, and both host menus run it from a single line. - `bootstrap.sh --agent-setup` / `bootstrap.ps1 -AgentSetup` runs four steps in order. It upgrades the coding-agent CLIs already installed, installs the fleet skills, and installs the Claude Code safety kit. It then writes the host-wide rule blocks into Codex's and opencode's global `AGENTS.md`, for each agent present. - `--agent-status` reports all four read-only, and `--host` and `--dev` now end with the agent setup. - A new `update-host` skill runs the setup from any session. - The kit's stamp names the resolved commit when installed from a bootstrap tree, which fixes items 2 and 3 of #2553. Item 1 of #2553, installing the Claude Code CLI itself, stays open. Hooks for Codex and opencode stay on #781. - #4089: answers CodeRabbit's review of this promotion. The Windows skill commands run the loader only after its download succeeds. The status summary reports the agent-tools inventory as listed, failed or not checked rather than current. `bootstrap.ps1` restores the source-commit variables after a run, and `--agent-status --from-tree` no longer needs curl, tar or flock. The rules wrappers prefer Python 3.11+. Two findings were declined with evidence on their threads. - #4090: the host-setup README's tree-lifetime paragraph no longer counts the tree-keeping actions, and scopes itself to a run that fetches its tree. - #4091: the fleet map's G1 entry and cold-start flowchart describe the agent setup. The README and the flowchart say the Claude Code plugin registration, the safety kit and the host-wide rules act only on agents already installed. So a fresh machine re-runs the agent setup after installing a coding agent, before its first session. The `install-skills` and `install-safety-kit` headers state where each wrapper reaches. - #4092: answers this promotion's attested local review. The Codex and opencode rules files carry a digest of the rules written below their header and note. A hand edit there now reads EDITED and is backed up before the next rewrite. A non-blank Codex `AGENTS.override.md` makes the status report SHADOWED and not current, and the setup never touches it. Two findings from that review were declined with evidence: sharing the skills installer's commit lookup, and the Python-less report. - #4093: the Codex host-safety README says a non-blank `AGENTS.override.md` keeps the host-wide rules from reaching Codex, and takes their place as its instruction layer. ## Not Verified - Native Windows end to end, a `verification` gap. Native Windows CI ran the unit suite, including the new `global_rules.py` tests, and passed. `bootstrap.ps1 -AgentSetup` / `-AgentStatus`, the Windows wrappers, tar extraction and the user-profile writes have not run on a real Windows host. Their PowerShell logic was exercised only through the lifted-function tests under `pwsh`. Refs #2553 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Summary
Answers the attested local review of the develop -> main promotion, #4088, at 20b8392.
host-setup/agent-safety/codex/README.mdsaid the host-wide rules reach Codex throughAGENTS.mdwithout qualification. Since #4092, a non-blankAGENTS.override.mdtakes precedence, which the status reports as SHADOWED and not current. The README now says so, matchingdocs/host-setup.mdand theupdate-hostskill.The prose gate is clean, and a recorded local pass found nothing open.
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