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skill-creator

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Fine to try.

By openai/skills (GitHub) · other · 28,682 stars · scanned at commit 49f948f

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Codex's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'skill-creator' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'skill-creator' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named skill-creator already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/openai/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '49f948faa9258a0c61caceaf225e179651397431' -- 'skills/.system/skill-creator' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/.system/skill-creator' ~/.agents/skills/'skill-creator' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'skill-creator' ~/.claude/skills/'skill-creator' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Also found in

Identical copies of this skill exist at:

• Prism-Shadow/GDPevo/evaluation/eval_workspace/codex_skill_creator_comparison/creators/codex/upstream
• idexal/idexal-skills/.system/skill-creator