What's really happening with codex plugins, skills, prompts, and MCPs as agents start doing real work? The common story is that plugins are just app store add-ons — but the reality is more complicated.
In this video, I share the inside scoop on the agentic scaffolding that actually makes AI useful:
• Why prompts work for one-offs but break under repeated workflows
• How skills encode your house style across any LLM you use
• What plugins package up and why they're bigger than MCPs
• Where hooks, scripts, and connectors fit inside the larger system
For operators and builders, the leverage in 2026 lives in knowing which part of your workflow belongs in a prompt, a skill, a plugin, or an MCP — and packaging the right ones so your team can actually reuse them.
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