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Codex Skills System

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

OpenAI Codex’s built-in skills system discovers SKILL.md skills from ~/.codex/skills/ and installs new ones via $skill-installer, either from OpenAI’s curated catalog or any GitHub repo.

Why a skill for this

Having a first-party install path and curated catalog, rather than only community-assembled lists, is what makes a skills ecosystem practical to actually adopt inside Codex.

OpenAI Skills/Plugins Catalog

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is OpenAI’s official, curated repository of Codex skills and plugins — covering design tools, testing, security, observability, and one-command cloud deploys.

Why a skill for this

A first-party curated catalog is a stronger trust signal than an assembled community list — these skills are maintained by, or reviewed by, OpenAI itself rather than crowdsourced without a review bar.

Skill Creator (OpenAI)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This system skill, auto-installed with Codex, scaffolds a new SKILL.md-compliant skill from a plain description of what it should do.

Why a skill for this

Getting a skill’s folder structure and frontmatter right by hand is easy to get subtly wrong. A scaffolding skill means authoring a new skill starts from a correct template instead of a blank file.