Agentic Work Systematization

OpenAI Codex study's 'systematization' margin: the shift from ad-hoc agent use (describe task → agent does it → done) to reusable workflow infrastructure via skills and plugins; skill use rose 5.4%→26.6% of weekly-active users (Mar→Jun 2026) and is near-universal at OpenAI (96.2%); custom skills concentrate where shared conventions exist — but the measured post-adoption lifecycle is a one-time copy (53% of reused skills never modified, maintenance 2.7:1 additive), so systematization compounds only under a maintenance discipline most adopters skip