Use the real tool, not the side door

Mid-flow, it is tempting to reach for whatever glue moves the work instead of the tool you are building.

While building the review chain for 0.12.0, my agent handed a review to Codex through a rescue path — a separate mechanism that got the context across. It worked. It was faster. I stopped it immediately and made every round go through bridge handoff codex instead.

The side door was not the bridge. It skipped the machinery that picks the right session, computes the delta and records delivery honestly — which is the entire product. Two things follow. The tool you ship is the tool you should run: if my own reviews never performed a real handoff, a broken handoff would first appear in a stranger's repository. And the shortcut lies. It makes the demo smooth by avoiding the fragile parts, and the fragile parts are where the bugs live.

Use it even when it is slower. Especially then.