Your Agentic DNA — The Portable Layer That Travels With You

Four years of ChatGPT history. Two years of Claude projects. Custom instructions, saved memories, accumulated context built up across thousands of conversations. And then a new harness ships — Cowork, Claude Code, Codex — and suddenly the question isn't which AI do I use. It's how do I move what I've built up, without starting over.

That's the problem this episode solves.

Chris Bradley walks through the discipline of building your Agentic DNA — the portable layer of identity, standards, and skills that travels with you across models and harnesses. The system has three phases: Extract what's already there, Consolidate it into a small set of files you own, Deploy those files into every environment where you work.

He's direct about what actually moves and what doesn't. Saved memories, in-app history, harness-specific automations — trapped. Files, skills, written context documents, structured prompts — free. The job is moving everything you can to the free side of that line, so the next time a new model or harness drops, you're productive in it within the hour.

The episode introduces the Portability Test — three questions for deciding what belongs in your DNA — and closes the Tools That Changed How I Work sub-series. Five episodes on tools. One episode on the layer that survives them.

Three things to try this week included.