codex-prompt-template-builder

name

codex-prompt-template-builder

description

Create, choose, adapt, and validate reusable Codex prompt templates that orchestrate skills, plugins, files, tools, and safety gates. Use when the user asks for massive prompts, prompt templates, reusable Codex prompts, plugin-orchestration prompts, marketplace prompt packs, or turning a prompt into a skill. Triggers: prompt template, reusable prompt, massive prompt, plugin stack prompt, prompt pack, turn this prompt into a skill. Skip when the user only needs a one-off short prompt with no reusable structure.

Codex Prompt Template Builder

Goal: turn broad user intent into a reusable, safe, copy/paste Codex prompt template with clear inputs, plugin/skill routing, workflow steps, validation, and expected output.

Workflow

1. Read references/prompt-template-system.md.
2. Inspect prompt-templates/README.md and choose the closest template.
3. If no template fits, create one new template with frontmatter and a concrete prompt body.
4. For public prompt packs, add or update color-coded plugin lanes in PROMPT_GALLERY.md or prompt-templates/README.md.
5. Keep the template reusable:
   • role and outcome
   • dynamic inputs/placeholders
   • plugins or skills to use
   • safety gates
   • execution steps
   • validation
   • final output format
6. For prompt packs, add the template to prompt-templates/ and update the catalog only when discovery changes.
7. Run the template catalog validator.

Template Frontmatter

Each template must include:

---
name: lower-kebab-name
title: Human Readable Title
summary: One sentence outcome.
tags: comma, separated, keywords
plugins: comma, separated, plugins-or-skills
safety: Main safety gate or none
---

Commands

python3 scripts/prompt_template_catalog.py --validate
python3 scripts/prompt_template_catalog.py --table

References

• references/prompt-template-system.md
• prompt-templates/README.md
• Pair with $skill-pack-factory when creating a full prompt/skill pack.
• Pair with $skill-quality-gate before publishing templates as skills.

Skip When

• The user only needs a tiny one-off prompt.
• The requested template would embed private credentials, account secrets, or hidden chain-of-thought instructions.
• The requested workflow mainly installs or runs untrusted code; use $mcp-safety-review or $sandbox-source-intake first.

Validation

• The template has complete frontmatter and no placeholder secrets.
• The prompt states dynamic inputs, tools/skills/plugins, safety gates, workflow, verification, and output format.
• Public templates have clear color-coded plugin/capability lanes when useful.
• The prompt can be copied into Codex without requiring hidden repo context.
• python3 scripts/prompt_template_catalog.py --validate passes.