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Open the folder in Codex
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What’s in this folder?
Working with your own data? Keep good, up-to-date backups of all your data and know how to restore them.
Scenario · conference
Take over a conference folder
You’ve inherited the planning folder for a fictional event. Find out what is current and turn scattered information into a useful plan.
1. Discover and organise
What’s in this folder? Show how the documents, spreadsheets and website fit together. Identify conflicting or outdated information, with source paths. Suggest useful tasks and let me choose.
2. Reconcile the evidence
Build a source-linked event brief and an action list. Compare the planning workbook with the website, flag differences and distinguish confirmed decisions from proposals. Do not guess which source is current; explain the evidence.
3. Make something useful
Propose updates to the local conference website based on the checked brief. Show the plan first, apply the changes we agree and record the sources, edits and checks. Preview the result locally.
Other directions to try
Explore the feedback spreadsheet, draft a participant email for review, or create a planning dashboard. Check totals and denominators; a registration is not evidence of attendance. Use the fictional local materials. An agent drafting an email or website has not sent or published it.
Finish with Document the workflow. You can restore this mock folder from the ZIP.
Step 05 Continue afterwards
Document the workflow
For any scenario, leave a workflow someone else can understand and use.
Document our steps and set up a repeatable workflow that tracks every change. Include a run guide, an append-only change log and verification checks. Show me the plan first.
What should the log capture?
Old/new paths, input/output hashes, commands, environment, decisions and checks. Include failed attempts and corrections. Append entries; do not overwrite earlier history. Log manual changes too, and compare hashes to catch omissions.
Check your result
Start a new conversation and ask the agent to use the run guide. Ask the agent to repeat a step from the guide. Check the result and confirm the new log entry was added without erasing the history.