OpenAI Skills
Daily and weekly updates from OpenAI Skills, the skills catalog for Codex workflows.
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Episodes
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OpenAI Skills: New Developer Education Tools
The OpenAI Skills repository added two new educational skills focused on improving developer learning - one for frontend UI polish and another for post-session programming tutoring with forced recall exercises.
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OpenAI Skills: UI Workflow Expansion and Security Policy
The OpenAI Skills repository added a new experimental skill for design-driven UI development workflows and established a formal security policy. The changes reflect growing project maturity with both feature expansion and governance…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Codex Integration & Self-Knowledge
This week focused on bringing Codex-aware documentation capabilities to the standalone skills repository. The single merged PR establishes a foundation for intelligent routing between Codex's built-in knowledge and external documentation…
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OpenAI Skills: Codex Self-Knowledge Integration
A major update merged Codex self-knowledge capabilities into OpenAI documentation skills, adding manual-first lookup routing and cached fetching helpers across both system and curated skill copies.
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OpenAI Skills: Codex Self-Knowledge Integration
The OpenAI Skills repository integrated Codex self-knowledge capabilities into its documentation lookup system. The update adds intelligent routing that checks Codex's manual before falling back to the broader documentation API.
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Codex Skill Enhancement
Two curated skills received significant updates this week, with a new goal-setting capability added and improved pull request workflow intelligence for template-aware publishing.
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OpenAI Skills: New Goal Definition Capability
A new define-goal skill was merged into the OpenAI Skills repository, enabling users to transform vague intentions into concrete, measurable objectives through the $define-goal command.
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OpenAI Skills: Codex Yeet Skill Enhancement
Developer Anton Panasenko enhanced the curated "yeet" skill to handle repository PR templates, existing branches, and context-aware PR bodies. The update adds template discovery and branch-awareness to the publish workflow.
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Pet Generation Workflow Overhaul
OpenAI merged a major workflow replacement for their hatch-pet skill, introducing version 2 with improved Codex compatibility and streamlined image generation processes. The update removes over 1,700 lines of code while adding 859 new…
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OpenAI Skills: Pet Spritesheet Generation Workflow Overhaul
OpenAI merged a major update to the hatch-pet skill workflow, introducing version 2 with improved Codex compatibility and streamlined image generation processes. The update removed nearly 700 lines of legacy code while adding new brand…
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OpenAI Skills: Documentation Coordination and Search Improvements
Two pull requests merged yesterday focusing on better coordination between OpenAI documentation skills and improved search functionality for the hatch-pet skill.
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OpenAI Skills: When Running Doesn't Mean Running
Andrew Ginns merged a thoughtful clarification to the hatch-pet animation system, distinguishing between "running" as an active working state versus actual locomotion. This semantic improvement helps AI image generation create more…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Skills Catalog Overhaul
The OpenAI Skills team executed a major catalog restructuring this week, removing outdated Sora and documentation skills while adding new migration and pet-hatching capabilities. Five pull requests merged with over 7,000 lines of code…
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OpenAI Skills: Pet Hatching Feature and Documentation Cleanup
OpenAI's skills repository saw significant activity with the addition of a comprehensive hatch-pet skill containing animation and game logic components, while the curated documentation skill was removed from the platform.
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OpenAI Skills: Sora Skill Removal
OpenAI has removed the curated Sora skill from their skills repository, deleting over 2,400 lines of code including documentation, assets, and agent configurations. The skill is no longer discoverable or installable from the repository.
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OpenAI Skills: Codex Migration Tool Launch
OpenAI released a new curated skill called "migrate-to-codex" that helps developers migrate external agent setups into Codex-compatible configurations. The substantial 3,698-line addition includes migration scripts, documentation, and…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - GPT-5.5 Migration and Documentation Updates
This week focused heavily on updating OpenAI Skills documentation for GPT-5.5, with major changes to upgrade guides and prompting documentation. The team also streamlined the curated skills collection by removing frontend and web game…
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OpenAI Skills: GPT-5.5 Documentation Updates
Three pull requests merged today updated the OpenAI Skills repository with comprehensive GPT-5.5 documentation, including migration guidance, prompting best practices, and model reference updates.
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OpenAI Skills: Documentation Updates and Skill Cleanup
Two pull requests were merged today focusing on aligning OpenAI documentation skills and removing deprecated frontend capabilities. The changes include GPT-5.4 compatibility updates and cleanup of over 1,100 lines of legacy code.
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OpenAI Skills: GPT-5.4 Upgrade Guidance Enhancement
The OpenAI Skills repository received a significant update to its GPT-5.4 upgrade guidance system, implementing dynamic freshness checks and automated metadata resolution. The changes include a new helper script that fetches the latest…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Repository Restructuring & New Plugin Tools
Major repository reorganization this week with the removal of spreadsheets and slides skills, relocation of imagegen to system directory, and addition of a new plugin-creator tool. All changes focused on streamlining the skills…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Developer Tools & CLI Enhancement
Three pull requests merged this week focused on improving developer tooling, including a new CLI creator skill and updates to existing skills for better usability and neutral branding.
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Design Tools Take Center Stage
This week brought a major expansion of Figma integration capabilities with six new curated skills and proper licensing alignment, while the team also enhanced image generation workflows and improved ChatGPT widget documentation. Led by…
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OpenAI Skills: Getting the Legal Stuff Right
Today we dive into a crucial maintenance PR that cleaned up licensing across all the Figma skills in the curated collection. Vaibhav from the OpenAI team led the charge on aligning eight different Figma skills with proper licensing…
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OpenAI Skills: Figma Partnership Expansion
The OpenAI Skills repository saw a major expansion of Figma integration capabilities with six new curated skills for design workflows, code connections, and design system management. Vaibhav Srivastav led the effort to import and adapt…
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OpenAI Skills: ImageGen Gets a System-Level Upgrade
Dominik Kundel led a major architectural shift, moving the imagegen skill to system level with comprehensive updates across 8 files. This substantial refactor touched everything from documentation to the core Python script, suggesting a…
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OpenAI Skills: Frontend Design Intelligence Gets an Upgrade
The OpenAI Skills repository just got a major boost with the addition of a curated frontend-skill package that brings GPT-5.4's design guidance directly into the codebase. Alistair from the OpenAI team crafted a focused skill bundle…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - Spring Cleaning & Forward Compatibility
This week brought thoughtful maintenance and forward-looking improvements to the OpenAI Skills repository. Our team focused on cleaning up outdated references, preparing for upcoming platform changes, and streamlining file upload…
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OpenAI Skills: Spring Cleaning and Visual Upgrades
Today we're diving into some important housekeeping in the OpenAI Skills repository, where the team tackled broken links and enhanced visual capabilities. Eric Traut cleaned up a pesky 404 error by removing references to a defunct…
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OpenAI Skills: Simplifying File Uploads
Drew from the OpenAI team merged a small but meaningful change that removes the image file requirement for uploadFile functionality. This single-line update to the ChatGPT apps documentation reflects a more flexible approach to file…
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OpenAI Skills: Weekly Recap - The Great Skills Expansion
This week brought an incredible expansion to the OpenAI Skills repository with 9 merged pull requests adding major new capabilities. The team introduced powerful new skills for ChatGPT Apps, presentation creation, interactive testing,…
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OpenAI Skills: A Fresh Look with Logo Updates
Today we're diving into a clean and focused update to the OpenAI Skills repository. Niels Laute merged PR #214 to update the WinUI logo, addressing issue #213 with solid community support from two approving reviewers. It's one of those…
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OpenAI Skills: The Great Skills Sync and GPT-5.4 Upgrade
The OpenAI Skills repository saw a major synchronization effort with 5 merged PRs bringing curated skills up to date, including new Playwright interactive testing and slides capabilities. The team also rolled out comprehensive GPT-5.4…
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OpenAI Skills: Microsoft Stack Skills Expansion
The OpenAI Skills repository got a major boost with the addition of comprehensive ASP.NET Core and WinUI curated skills. Dominik Kundel led this substantial contribution, adding nearly 2,500 lines of documentation and reference materials…