Extending OpenAI Codex with Agent Skills for Task-Specific Workflows
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Summary
The article explains how to use agent skills to extend OpenAI's Codex with task-specific capabilities. Skills package instructions, resources, and optional scripts to enable Codex to follow workflows reliably, building on the open agent skills standard. Skills serve as the authoring format for reusable workflows, while plugins are the installable distribution units for these skills and apps in Codex. The article describes how skills are available across Codex CLI, IDE extension, and the Codex app, and how they use progressive disclosure to manage context effectively.
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A skill packages instructions, resources, and optional scripts so Codex can follow a workflow reliably.
Skills are the authoring format for reusable workflows. Plugins are the installable distribution unit for reusable skills and apps in Codex.
Skills use progressive disclosure to manage context effectively.
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