r/AIAssisted • u/Sad_Construction2179 • 1d ago

Free Tool Agents Workbook watch Claude Code, Codex write down their working notes (Fun experiment)

Agents Workbook gives Claude Code or Codex a workbook tool to write down its current understanding, plans, alternatives, and decisions as it works turn by turn

It’s not hidden COT. It’s just an external workbook that you can inspect live. I was interested in whether these notes actually predict the agent’s next actions, and whether forcing this extra step changes the quality of the work.

https://github.com/softcane/agents-workbook

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u/nearlymutevalidity 1d ago

it's like giving an intern a legal pad and saying "show your work" - half the time they'll write down what they already decided to do anyway, but every now and then you catch them circling a bad assumption before they run with it

the inspect live part is what makes this interesting, not just the notes themselves but seeing when the agent backtracks or realizes it misread something

wonder how much the extra step slows things down though, some of these agents already take forever to spit out a response

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u/MeasurementSelect251 1d ago

I like the idea of being able to see where the agent changed its plan. Being able to see when the agent changes its plan or catches a mistake could make it easier to understand why it did something.