How
works
What's installed, and what happens when you prompt your agent.
Installed once across
Claude Code
Codex
Gemini CLI
Antigravity
Cursor
Skills = how to do the work • Router = which skills • ovd-workflow = what's happening in this project • Guide = how the agent behaves.
You prompt your coding agent
Global Operating Guide · the system prompt
Karpathy-based: think first, stay objective, plan, verify. Installed at ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.codex/AGENTS.md, ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md. Gemini convention also covers Antigravity. Cursor reads skills directly. On non-trivial work it points the agent to the skill-router.
Trivial request
Answer directly. The router stays quiet.
Decision: "Non-trivial request?"
Simple work exits here. Substantial work continues down.
Skill Router · the "bouncer"
A routing skill: rules, examples, and the 137-skill catalog. Not a daemon, model, or service. Loads the minimum useful skills: phased, no hard cap, quiet on simple tasks. Logs the choice to routes.jsonl.
Specialist Skills · 137 SKILL.md playbooks
Design, animation, web/app, SEO, research, security, launch, browser QA, prompt-master, humanizer, design-extract, claude-video, pretext, graphify, and more.
ovd-workflow · local .overdrive/ project memory
Comes after the skills and before the work.
Agent does the work
Reads from and writes to ovd-workflow while the work proceeds.
Sharper, consistent output
The project is remembered next session.