--- title: Top Skills for Codex CLI slug: codex type: agent vendor: OpenAI native: true canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-codex skills: 53 rubric: 1.0 updated: 2026-09-06 --- # Top Skills for Codex CLI On Codex CLI the picks are frontend-design, docling and superpowers — the same shape of work as Claude Code, since Codex is also terminal-first with a real shell. Roughly a quarter of the catalogue is verified here, so the useful question on this page is not what exists but what has been tested: every entry below was either run on Codex or ships a Codex-specific install path documented by its publisher. 53 Skills verified on Codex CLI. Vendor: OpenAI. Runs SKILL.md natively. Compatibility here lists only Skills actually tested on this agent or shipping a publisher-documented path for it — never assumed. Vendor install docs: https://platform.openai.com ## The ranking ### 1. frontend-design — score 92/100 (official-anthropic) Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written. - Best for: Greenfield landing pages, marketing sites, and any UI that should feel intentional rather than templated. - Not ideal for: Ports of an existing design system — frontend-design pushes a bold direction that may overwrite established tokens. - Publisher: Anthropic · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, claude-ai, claude-api, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash npx skills add github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design.md) ### 2. docling — score 66/100 (verified-org) One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself. - Best for: Reading or converting documents the agent cannot open directly, at 65K stars and MIT: scanned PDFs, Office formats, tables, and chunking a corpus for retrieval. - Not ideal for: Producing polished Office files. Docling is a reader and converter — for generating a styled DOCX, XLSX or PPTX, the Anthropic document skills are the better fit. - Publisher: Docling project (LF AI & Data) · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claude ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling.md) ### 3. antigravity-awesome-skills — score 65/100 (community) 1,234+ skills in one bundle. Single install across AI coding assistants. - Best for: Teams that want a comprehensive starting set rather than picking 30 individually. - Not ideal for: Lean setups — you will install many skills you never use. - Publisher: Antigravity · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash npx antigravity-awesome-skills --claude ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills.md) ### 4. remotion-best-practices — score 64/100 (verified-org) Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected. - Best for: Video demos, release announcements, explainer videos written in React. - Publisher: Remotion · Proprietary - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash npx skills add github.com/remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/remotion-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/remotion-best-practices.md) ### 5. superpowers — score 61/100 (community) Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in. - Best for: Long-running engineering tasks where you want each phase to handoff cleanly. - Not ideal for: Quick one-shot tasks — the orchestration overhead is not worth it. - Publisher: obra · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash npx skills add obra/superpowers ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers.md) ### 6. firebase-hosting-basics — score 61/100 (verified-org) Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting.md) ### 7. zeabur-agent-skills — score 61/100 (verified-org) Deploy and register the domain in the same session — Zeabur is its own registrar, so both are one CLI. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zeabur-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zeabur-agent-skills.md) ### 8. resend — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email.md) ### 9. email-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices.md) ### 10. react-email — score 59/100 (verified-org) Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email.md) ### 11. agent-email-inbox — score 59/100 (verified-org) Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox.md) ### 12. drawio — score 58/100 (verified-org) The only vendor-official skill from a major diagramming product — and it emits editable .drawio files rather than a throwaway image. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/drawio-diagram-generator (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/drawio-diagram-generator.md) ### 13. hostinger-agent-skills — score 57/100 (verified-org) The registrar half of the stack: buy the domain, set the DNS, stand up the site — from one plugin. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hostinger-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hostinger-agent-skills.md) ### 14. composio — score 55/100 (verified-org) 1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio.md) ### 15. openclaudia-skills — score 54/100 (community) Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openclaudia-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openclaudia-skills.md) ### 16. workos — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos.md) ### 17. workos-widgets — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Drop-in WorkOS widgets with backend token wiring across every major framework. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets.md) ### 18. paddle-agent-skills — score 53/100 (verified-org) Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills.md) ### 19. twilio — score 53/100 (verified-org) Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills.md) ### 20. web-artifacts-builder — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder.md) ### 21. pdf — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pdf (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pdf.md) ### 22. accessibility-review — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review.md) ### 23. supabase-skill — score 51/100 (verified-org) Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill.md) ### 24. neon-postgres — score 51/100 (verified-org) Neon serverless Postgres done right — branching, pooling, and scale-to-zero, from Neon. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres.md) ### 25. stripe-payments — score 51/100 (verified-org) Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments.md) ### 26. shopify-storefront — score 51/100 (verified-org) Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront.md) ### 27. visualize-data — score 51/100 (verified-org) OpenAI's chart-design skill: the judgement layer that decides which chart the question actually needs before any plotting code is written. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-visualize-data (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-visualize-data.md) ### 28. build-dashboard — score 51/100 (verified-org) Dashboards with source definitions and a QA step — the parts that separate a monitoring view from a wall of charts nobody trusts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-build-dashboard (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-build-dashboard.md) ### 29. architecture — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr.md) ### 30. debug — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug.md) ### 31. deploy-checklist — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist.md) ### 32. documentation — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation.md) ### 33. incident-response — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response.md) ### 34. system-design — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design.md) ### 35. tech-debt — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt.md) ### 36. testing-strategy — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy.md) ### 37. scan-secrets — score 50/100 (verified-org) GitGuardian's own secret-detection skill — scans history, images and packages, and ships a written remediation doctrine rather than just a list of hits. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/gitguardian-secret-scanning (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/gitguardian-secret-scanning.md) ### 38. vercel-web-design-guidelines — score 49/100 (verified-org) 100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines.md) ### 39. vercel-react-best-practices — score 49/100 (verified-org) 57 React/Next.js performance rules, applied as a structural review on your code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices.md) ### 40. trail-of-bits — score 49/100 (verified-org) Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits.md) ### 41. firecrawl — score 49/100 (verified-org) Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firecrawl (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firecrawl.md) ### 42. prisma-orm — score 49/100 (verified-org) Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm.md) ### 43. redis-cache-patterns — score 49/100 (verified-org) Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/redis-cache-patterns (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/redis-cache-patterns.md) ### 44. next-js-app-router — score 49/100 (verified-org) Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router.md) ### 45. notion-api-skill — score 49/100 (verified-org) Notion API: page/database CRUD, block hierarchies, rich text, schema sync. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill.md) ### 46. sentry-error-handling — score 48/100 (verified-org) Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling.md) ### 47. seo-geo-claude-skills — score 47/100 (community) 20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills.md) ### 48. alirezarezvani-skills — score 47/100 (community) 232+ skills across engineering, marketing, product, compliance, advisory. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/alirezarezvani-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/alirezarezvani-skills.md) ### 49. tdd-skill — score 46/100 (community) TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill.md) ### 50. valyu — score 46/100 (verified-org) Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu.md) ### 51. corey-haines-marketing — score 45/100 (community) 32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/corey-haines-marketing (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/corey-haines-marketing.md) ### 52. humanizer — score 45/100 (community) Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/humanizer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/humanizer.md) ### 53. system-architecture-diagrams — score 42/100 (community) C4, deployment, sequence-of-events architecture diagrams generated from natural-language descriptions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams.md) ## Common questions **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. --- _Top Agent Skills. Machine-readable twin of https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-codex._ _JSON: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-codex.json · whole catalog: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills.json (CC BY 4.0)_