OpenAI Codex Skills Directory

Awesome Codex Skills

The largest collection of OpenAI Codex agent skills. Extend your Codex CLI with coding tools, automation workflows, and developer plugins.

What Are Codex Skills?

Codex skills are structured instruction files that extend OpenAI's Codex CLI agent with specialized capabilities. They follow the SKILL.md format and can be loaded into your .codex/skills/ directory to give Codex domain expertise in specific tools, frameworks, and workflows.

  • Extend Codex CLI with domain-specific knowledge
  • Automate code reviews, testing, and documentation
  • Compatible with SKILL.md and AGENTS.md formats
  • Works alongside Claude Code and Cursor skills
  • Git-friendly — share skills across your team
  • Community-driven ecosystem with 1,000+ skills
  • One-line install with npx skills add
  • Structured prompts for reliable, repeatable output

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How to Install Codex Skills

1

Install with add-skill

The fastest way. Automatically clones and sets up the skill in your workspace.

npx skills add author/skill-repo
2

Or add to .codex/skills/ manually

Clone the repo and copy the SKILL.md into your Codex skills directory.

mkdir -p .codex/skills/
git clone https://github.com/author/skill-repo
cp skill-repo/SKILL.md .codex/skills/
3

Run Codex with skills loaded

Codex CLI automatically reads skills from .codex/skills/ when starting a session. Skills are injected into the agent's context.

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