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How to resume thesis work across new Codex chats with Research Workbench Assistant

Save checkpoints and next steps in your project so a new Codex chat can pick up where you stopped.

Short answer: Run python -X utf8 scripts/install.py from the cloned repository to copy the research-workbench Skill into your user .agents/skills folder, then restart Codex if the Skill is not recognized; then open your own research project in Codex and send: $research-workbench 请为这个项目初始化科研工作台。先了解我的研究目标，不要编造进展，也不要覆盖已有记录。; after a substantial piece of work, send: $research-workbench 请保存这次实质进展、证据位置和下一步，并更新续接断点。还没确认的方案不要写成已确认。. All steps.

  • Top pick
  • Research
  • Intermediate
  • 30 minutes
  • From the README
  • Codex

Who it is forA graduate student working on a thesis or paper with Codex, who starts a new chat and needs the previous progress and open questions back.

The problemChat history is not a reliable record of research progress, and re-explaining the project in every new session wastes time and loses decisions.

The outcomeProgress, evidence locations, open questions, and a resume checkpoint are stored as local files in the project, and a new chat reads the checkpoint before loading only what the current task needs.

What you need first

  • A working local Codex installation with an account that can use it
  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • Git

Steps

  1. Run python -X utf8 scripts/install.py from the cloned repository to copy the research-workbench Skill into your user .agents/skills folder, then restart Codex if the Skill is not recognized.
  2. Open your own research project in Codex and send: $research-workbench 请为这个项目初始化科研工作台。先了解我的研究目标，不要编造进展，也不要覆盖已有记录。
  3. After a substantial piece of work, send: $research-workbench 请保存这次实质进展、证据位置和下一步，并更新续接断点。还没确认的方案不要写成已确认。
  4. In a new chat, send: $research-workbench 继续上次研究。先读当前断点，只加载这次任务需要的资料。

Prompt for your agent

In the research-workbench-assistant repo, use the research-workbench Skill in the project at <project-path> to initialize a workbench, save the current progress and next steps, then start a new chat and resume. Expected output: an ACTIVE_CONTEXT resume checkpoint in the project. Verify that unconfirmed plans are not recorded as confirmed.

Caveat. Resume memory is local files the Codex Skill reads, not cloud chat memory, and the README notes that the .gitignore is not a privacy guarantee.

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