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Install Codex skills into $CODEX_HOME/skills from a curated list or a GitHub repo path. Use when a user asks to list installable skills, install a curated skill, or install a skill from another repo (including private repos).
Install with Codex or Claude Copy this prompt, paste it into Codex, Claude, or another assistant, and let it review the skill page and install it for you.
Based on SOC occupation classification
Build AI agents that interact with computers like humans do - viewing screens, moving cursors, clicking buttons, and typing text. Covers Anthropic's Computer Use, OpenAI's Operator/CUA, and open-source alternatives. Critical focus on sandboxing, security, and handling the unique challenges of vision-based control. Use when: computer use, desktop automation agent, screen control AI, vision-based agent, GUI automation.
Expert in building products that wrap AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) into focused tools people will pay for. Not just 'ChatGPT but different' - products that solve specific problems with AI. Covers prompt engineering for products, cost management, rate limiting, and building defensible AI businesses. Use when: AI wrapper, GPT product, AI tool, wrap AI, AI SaaS.
Automate GitHub workflows with AI assistance. Includes PR reviews, issue triage, CI/CD integration, and Git operations. Use when automating GitHub workflows, setting up PR review automation, creating GitHub Actions, or triaging issues.
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms"). Use this skill when asked to "remove AI-isms," "clean up AI writing," "edit writing for AI patterns," "audit writing for AI tells," or "make this sound less like AI." Supports a detect-only mode, an edit-in-place mode for files, an optional voice profile (casual / professional / technical / warm / blunt), and an iterate-to-convergence pass.
Free lite skill — drafts one friendly (level-1) client document-request email for a single tax client from a short brief plus the practice profile. A strict subset of client-doc-chaser (no batch, no escalation levels 2/3), carrying the pack's full guard. Use to try the kit before buying, or as the directory-published funnel skill. Triggers - "client document request email", "chase a client's documents", "free document request writer", "doc-chaser-lite".
Generate patent-office-compliant figures via the PatentFig AI API — patent line art from text (PNG or SVG), vectorize drawings to SVG/DXF/vector PDF, AI-upscale images, and convert to filing-ready TIFF/PDF/PNG. Use when the user asks for patent drawings, patent figures, invention diagrams, USPTO/EPO-compliant line art, vectorizing a drawing for CAD, or preparing figures for a patent filing. Requires a PATENTFIG_API_KEY environment variable.
| name | skill-installer |
| description | Install Codex skills into $CODEX_HOME/skills from a curated list or a GitHub repo path. Use when a user asks to list installable skills, install a curated skill, or install a skill from another repo (including private repos). |
| metadata | {"short-description":"Install curated skills from openai/skills or other repos"} |
Helps install skills. By default these are from https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated, but users can also provide other locations.
Use the helper scripts based on the task:
Install skills with the helper scripts.
When listing curated skills, output approximately as follows, depending on the context of the user's request: """ Skills from {repo}:
After installing a skill, tell the user: "Restart Codex to pick up new skills."
All of these scripts use network, so when running in the sandbox, request escalation when running them.
scripts/list-curated-skills.py (prints curated list with installed annotations)scripts/list-curated-skills.py --format jsonscripts/install-skill-from-github.py --repo <owner>/<repo> --path <path/to/skill> [<path/to/skill> ...]scripts/install-skill-from-github.py --url https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/tree/<ref>/<path>$CODEX_HOME/skills/<skill-name> (defaults to ~/.codex/skills).--path values install multiple skills in one run, each named from the path basename unless --name is supplied.--ref <ref> (default main), --dest <path>, --method auto|download|git.https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated via the GitHub API. If it is unavailable, explain the error and exit.GITHUB_TOKEN/GH_TOKEN for download.$CODEX_HOME/skills.