Skills Officially Comes to Codex
14 hours ago
- #Codex
- #Agent Skills
- #Workflow Automation
- Agent Skills extend Codex with task-specific capabilities by packaging instructions, resources, and optional scripts.
- Skills are available in both the Codex CLI and IDE extensions.
- A skill includes a SKILL.md file (required), and optional scripts, references, and assets.
- Skills can be invoked explicitly (via prompt or slash command) or implicitly (when the task matches the skill's description).
- Skills are loaded from various scopes (REPO, USER, ADMIN, SYSTEM) with precedence rules.
- To create a skill, use the built-in $skill-creator or manually create a SKILL.md file with name and description.
- New skills can be installed from GitHub using the $skill-installer skill.
- Examples include the $plan skill for feature planning and skills for accessing Linear or Notion context.