AI for Research Efficiency, episode 4: Small habits that save hours
Narration: an AI-generated voice (ElevenLabs).

[0:00] Small habits
Opening a terminal in your project folder, the long way: typing the whole path, letter by letter.
The short way: right-click the folder, and choose Open in Terminal.
AI for Research Efficiency. Episode 4: Small habits that save hours.
Last time, a team of agents reviewed 57 files, and you checked what they found.
In this episode: nine small habits for working with an agent every day. Windows first, with the Mac beside it.

[0:38] 1. Folder to terminal, and back
One: from the folder to the terminal, and back.
In File Explorer, right-click the folder, or empty space inside it, and choose Open in Terminal.
Or click the address bar, type wt, and press Enter. It opens in the folder you're looking at.
On a Mac, Control-click the folder in Finder's path bar, and choose Open in Terminal.
And back again: type explorer . and the folder opens. On a Mac, it's open .

[1:16] 2. Hand it a file
Two: hand the agent a file.
Drag it into the terminal, and its full path appears where you're typing.
Or right-click it, and choose Copy as path. On a Mac, hold Option, and choose Copy as Pathname.

[1:36] 3. Copy, paste, stop
Three: copy, paste, and stop.
Ctrl+C copies, but only when text is selected. With nothing selected, it stops what's running.
Ctrl+V pastes. On a Mac, Command+C and Command+V copy and paste, and Control+C stops.

[1:57] 4. Up Arrow and Tab
Four: the Up Arrow brings back your last command, so trying again takes one key.
And Tab finishes a name: type the first letters, and press Tab.

[2:12] 5. Side by side, and larger
Five: side by side, and larger.
The Windows key and Left Arrow put the terminal on one half of the screen. Then pick a window for the other half.
Ctrl and + make the text larger; Ctrl and -, smaller. On a Mac, use Command.

[2:33] 6. Teach it once
Six: teach the agent once.
An instruction file tells it about your folder: the question, the rules, where things go. The agent reads it every time it starts.
Type /init, and the agent writes a first one: CLAUDE.md in Claude Code, AGENTS.md in Codex. Antigravity reads AGENTS.md too; ask it to write one.
And to point at one file, type @ and the start of its name.

[3:09] 7. Stop, go back, carry on
Seven: stop, go back, carry on.
Esc stops the agent mid-step. In Claude Code and Codex, press it twice to go back to an earlier message, and try again from there. In Antigravity, type /rewind.
While it works, type a correction and press Enter. It reaches the agent without stopping the work.
And tomorrow, pick up where you left off: claude --continue, codex resume, or agy -c.
Eight: keep it moving from anywhere.

[3:45] 8. Keep it moving from anywhere
In Claude Code or Antigravity, type /remote-control. Then open the same session on your phone, or in a browser, and keep steering it.
Codex sets this up in the ChatGPT desktop app, and you carry on from the ChatGPT app on your phone.
The work still runs on your own computer, so leave it on.

[4:14] 9. Show it, tell it
Nine: show it, and tell it.
Paste a screenshot into the prompt. On Windows, that's Alt+V in Claude Code and Antigravity. Codex takes an image with -i, when it starts.
Or talk instead of typing: /voice, in Claude Code or Antigravity. Codex documents no voice input for its command line.
Every key, for all three tools, is on the companion page.

[4:50] Try it
Pause here, and try three: open a terminal from your practice folder, start your agent, and point it at one file with @.

[5:02] Review and next
So: start in the folder, hand it exact paths, teach it once, and keep it moving.
Next: save and share your work with GitHub.