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Top Skills for Codex CLI

OpenAI's coding agent CLI. Adopted the SKILL.md spec verbatim in Dec 2025.

51 verified skills · vendor: OpenAI · native SKILL.md supportInstall docs

About Codex CLI

Codex CLI is OpenAI's coding agent CLI — terminal-first like Claude Code — and it adopted the SKILL.md spec verbatim in December 2025. Skills on Codex CLI load the same way Anthropic Skills do, with the same frontmatter schema, but run against an OpenAI model (GPT-5 family) instead of Claude.

The install model mirrors Claude Code: Skills live as folders under `~/.codex/skills/` (user-wide) or `.codex/skills/` (project-scoped). Many Claude-targeted Skills run cleanly on Codex with no changes; some need minor adjustments where they assume Claude-specific tool names or system-prompt conventions. The CLI also supports Workflows for multi-agent orchestration similar to Claude Code's.

Codex CLI is the right Skill target for teams already standardized on OpenAI infrastructure who want SKILL.md-driven workflows. Composite scoring weights cross-agent verification — Skills tested in both Codex and Claude Code rank above single-target Skills.

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Best Skills for Codex

Every skill below is verified to work with Codex CLI. Ranked by composite score.

Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.

ReactTailwindDesign
All surfaces
Low1 min

One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself.

PDFOCRRAG
Code
Medium5 min

Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in.

TDDMulti-agentPlans
Code
Medium5 min

Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys.

ResendEmailTransactional
Code
Medium3 min

Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.

EmailDeliverabilitySPF/DKIM/DMARC
Code
Low2 min

Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.

React EmailTemplatesTransactional
Code
Medium3 min

Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email.

Inbound EmailAgent SecurityWebhooks
Code
Medium4 min
Verified

The only vendor-official skill from a major diagramming product — and it emits editable .drawio files rather than a throwaway image.

draw.ioFlowchartArchitecture
Code
Low2 min

1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions.

OAuthSaaSAction-taking
All surfaces
Medium5 min

Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns.

PostgresRLSRealtime
Code
Medium4 min

Neon serverless Postgres done right — branching, pooling, and scale-to-zero, from Neon.

PostgresNeonServerless
Code
Low3 min

Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle.

SEOContentGrowth
Code
Low3 min

Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths.

WorkOSAuthSSO
Code
Medium5 min

Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly.

ScrapingSearchWeb
All surfaces
Low3 min

Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct.

PrismaTypeScriptMigrations
Code
Medium3 min

Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks.

RedisCachePerformance
Code
Low2 min

Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform.

PaddleSubscriptionsMerchant of Record
Code
Medium3 min

Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta.

TwilioSMSWhatsAppVoice
Code
Medium5 min

OpenAI's chart-design skill: the judgement layer that decides which chart the question actually needs before any plotting code is written.

ChartsData vizQA
Code
Low3 min

Dashboards with source definitions and a QA step — the parts that separate a monitoring view from a wall of charts nobody trusts.

DashboardsMetricsMonitoring
Code
Medium3 min

Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run.

Reactshadcn/uiArtifacts
All surfaces
Low1 min
Official

Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them.

PDFFormsRead-write
All surfaces
Low1 min

Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.

SentryErrorsObservability
Code
Low3 min

Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing.

StripePaymentsWebhooks
All surfaces
Medium4 min

Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns.

ShopifyCommerceHydrogen
Code
Medium4 min

GitGuardian's own secret-detection skill — scans history, images and packages, and ships a written remediation doctrine rather than just a list of hits.

Secret scanningggshieldPre-commit
Code
Medium5 min

ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives.

ADRArchitectureDesign
All surfaces
Low1 min

Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix.

DebugDiagnosisTroubleshooting
All surfaces
Low1 min

Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update.

DocumentationWritingREADME
All surfaces
Low1 min

Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.

IncidentPostmortemOn-call
All surfaces
Low1 min

System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale.

System DesignArchitectureAPI
All surfaces
Low1 min

Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog.

Tech DebtRefactorAudit
All surfaces
Low1 min

Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile.

TestingStrategyCoverage
All surfaces
Low1 min

Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows.

CodeQLSemgrepAudit
Code
Medium3 min

Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated.

EditingVoiceAEO
Code
Low2 min

Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes.

Next.jsReactApp Router
Code
Medium2 min

Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research.

SearchSECPubMed
All surfaces
Low3 min

20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization.

SEOGEOContent
Code
Medium5 min
Community

TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough.

TDDTypeScript
Code
Low2 min

32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth.

CROCopywritingEmail
Code
Low4 min

FAQ

Frequently asked

How do I install a Skill on Codex CLI?

Drop the Skill folder under `~/.codex/skills/` for user-wide or `.codex/skills/` for project-scoped. Codex loads SKILL.md the same way Claude Code does.

Do Claude Skills work on Codex CLI?

Most do — the SKILL.md spec is the same. Skills that hardcode Claude-specific tool names or assume Claude system-prompt conventions may need minor adjustments.

Which model does Codex CLI use?

GPT-5 family by default. Skill performance varies between model tiers; the best Codex-targeted Skills are tuned for the specific model.

Does Codex CLI support Workflows?

Yes — Codex has a Workflow primitive for multi-agent orchestration similar to Claude Code's. Skills can be invoked from within Workflows.

Is Codex CLI free?

The CLI itself is free; usage is billed against your OpenAI API account.

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