Choose by the decision you need to make
Start with the narrowest plugin that covers the task.
Finding the right surface or creating a plugin
Use Beyond10x when you are unsure which specialist owns the work, need the public resource map, or want to create or port a plugin. Its plugin creator makes shared skills the canonical workflow so the capability works in Codex and Claude Code, while keeping host-specific wrappers explicit.
Planning or understanding work
Use AEP Plan when the repository has a governed artifact store, or when you need to turn a goal into reviewable epics, stories, and tasks. Its agents can decompose, review, or reverse-engineer work, but the planning skill remains responsible for legal lifecycle moves.
Delivering a development story
Use AEP Drive when an accepted story is ready to scope and implement. Its wave guidance defines
coordination and review roles for an interactive session; its drive skill hands one story to
the reference driver instead, where the bounds are decided by the engine rather than followed by
an agent — and it says before it launches that the driven walk has not yet reached complete.
Neither makes a draft plan implementation-ready.
Specifying a system contract
Use ESS Specify when editing or reviewing an Executable System Specification, its typed IR, or a deterministic schema/OpenAPI projection. It reports unsupported semantics instead of inventing them.
Managing repository workspaces
Use Workspace Hygiene before an agent changes a repository or when linked worktrees need an
inventory or cleanup sweep. Its skill is generated by the public worktree CLI, so the documented
commands and the executable safety policy stay aligned. The plugin does not delete unmanaged trees
or replace the standalone toolchain.
Using configured integrations
Use Connectors to set up providers, diagnose readiness, and search, describe, and invoke
admitted operations through the standalone connectors CLI. Both hosts load the same skill;
credentials and grants remain owned by the Connector. See installation.
Installing more than one is reasonable when the work crosses those boundaries. Their scopes are complementary. The Beyond10x front door routes to them; it does not absorb their instructions.