How I Use ~/Agents as a Safe Workspace for Claude Code and Codex

The problem The more I used Claude Code and Codex, the more I realized I needed a clearer boundary between real projects, temporary clones, and experiments. Sometimes the problem was not the agent. It was my filesystem. I was asking agents to work across real projects, temporary clones, half-finished playgrounds, and writing notes without giving them a clear place to start. That made every task slightly more fragile. Was this repository safe to edit? Was that clone only for reference? Should the