Actually pretty reliably but you do need to explicitly call out the skill. I usually start agent threads with /coasts or in codex $coasts. Once it’s in the conversation they stick to it though.

One cool thing we do is we have the docs and semantic search of our docs baked into the CLI, so if the agents get lost they can usually figure things out kind of quickly by searching the docs via the cli.

Also we have a little section our agent.md and claude.md,I’m not sure how well it works without that.