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If your agent only looks impressive when the terminal is heavily formatted, you do not have observability. You have theatre.
A Python virtual environment gives one project its own package boundary. It does not isolate the whole operating system, which is why the line matters.
A practical first-project Codex setup: choose one working surface, connect the docs, pin the model, and keep network access tighter than your enthusiasm.
CLAUDE.md rules are suggestions. Hooks are guarantees. Here's how to move your enforcement logic out of prompts and into deterministic shell scripts that actually run every time.