Clear local change
A bounded, reversible edit stays on the shortest useful path: inspect the relevant source, make the change, run the focused check, and close.
Engineering method layer for Codex.
Method as exponent. Not machinery.
Servotab changes how Codex plans, builds, debugs, reviews, and verifies repository work. Clear changes stay direct. Higher-risk work receives stronger method and fresh evidence.
Tab moves first. Work responds. Evidence settles.
01 / Two paths
Direct when clear. Deliberate when risk demands it.
Method follows the repository task. It never replaces the work or turns every request into the same process.
Risky repository change
A selected method adds the planning, diagnosis, isolation, review, or verification the task genuinely needs—bounded to the real risk.
Example / ordinary language
“Fix the stale-cursor regression. Reproduce the failing test, identify the violated invariant, repair the canonical source, and run the focused suite.”
Servotab keeps the outcome and repository evidence in charge. It can attach debugging and verification method where the unexplained failure requires it, without turning the task into a fixed workflow.
02 / Product promises
Controlled leverage, without process theatre.
Four behaviors hold the line between useful method and unnecessary machinery.
directClear changes stay direct.
methodRisk brings stronger method.
closureFresh evidence closes the loop.
scopeThe requested outcome stays whole.
A small method, placed precisely.
Servotab’s method set spans design, execution, debugging, review, verification, isolation, delegation, and closure. The router chooses depth proportionately; explicit method names remain available when a person wants precise control.
designspec-chainplanexecutedebugtddreviewreview-feedbackverifyworktreedelegatefinish
status / 0.5.0
Servotab is live in the OpenAI Plugins Directory. The public listing is available now; this repository is preparing the separate 0.5.0 source candidate with per-skill icons for an owner-controlled directory update. No Servotab tag or GitHub Release exists. Open listing · Source install · Changelog