Author: Markos Symeonides, ChatGPT AI Hub The Codex Debugging Playbook: 20 Prompts for Systematic Bug Isolation, Root Cause Analysis, and Automated Fix Generation Reliable debugging with large codebases requires repeatable procedures and precise instructions for the assistant. This article presents a practical, field-tested playbook of 20 prompts designed for OpenAI Codex-style agents that can read repositories, reason over execution traces, and generate validated patches.