What the term means In this channel's material on coding agents in practice, midterm steering describes the human intervention that happens in the middle of a delegated task — not the initial handoff, and not the final review, but the corrections and course adjustments a person makes while an agent such as Codex is already working. [^619ac4a8-531a-53a9-9188-912ae7459502@157] Where it fits in the workflow The recurring lesson across this material is that the human's job shifts from typing code to planning, orchestrating, and verifying. Midterm steering is the orchestrating piece in motion: once a whole task has been handed off to an autonomous agent, the person still explores how the work is unfolding and nudges it back on track if the agent drifts, rather than waiting until the end to reject the result. [^619ac4a8-531a-53a9-9188-912ae7459502@157]- Midterm steering happens during a task, between handoff and final verification.- It is part of the human role of planning, orchestrating, and verifying agent work.- It applies when agents run on real, production software and are trusted with whole tasks at a time.