Skill Development (Codex)

This skill provides guidance for creating effective Codex skills and aligning with current Codex CLI conventions.

What Skills Are

Skills are modular packages that give Codex reusable workflows, domain knowledge, and tooling. Codex uses a skill in two ways:

• Implicit invocation: Codex selects a skill when the user's request matches its description.
• Explicit invocation: The user mentions $skill-name (or uses the /skills picker in supported clients).

Where to Save Skills (Codex Scopes)

Codex loads skills from these locations, in precedence order (highest to lowest):