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 skills.
Duration: PT2M28S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenAI Skills.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenAI Skills
- Published: 2026-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M28S
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Good morning, this is your OpenAI Skills weekly recap for April 20th through 27th, 2026. 6 PRs merged, 6 additional commits this week.
**Documentation Updates**
The primary focus this week was preparing for GPT-5.5. Konstantine Kahadze led three major pull requests updating the OpenAI Docs skill. PR #372 replaced all GPT-5.4 references with GPT-5.5 migration guidance, touching over 400 lines across 12 files in both system and curated skill copies.
Earlier in the week, PR #360 introduced a freshness check system for upgrade guidance, adding a new resolver script that reads model metadata from developers.openai.com. This ensures documentation stays current with the latest model releases while maintaining fallback capabilities when remote resources are unavailable.
PR #365 synchronized the curated OpenAI Docs with the system copy, ensuring both versions maintain identical structure and content. A follow-up PR #373 refined the GPT-5.5 upgrade guide wording, specifically clarifying reasoning-effort recommendations and replacing internal naming conventions with user-friendly…
**Skills Management**