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The OpenAI Skills team executed a major catalog restructuring this week, removing outdated Sora and documentation skills while adding new migration and pet-hatching capabilities.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 changes across 60 files.
Duration: PT2M56S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenAI Skills.
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- Show: OpenAI Skills
- Published: 2026-05-04T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M56S
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Welcome to OpenAI Skills Weekly Recap for April 27th through May 4th, 2026.
Five pull requests merged with 5 additional commits this week, bringing significant changes to the curated skills catalog.
Starting with new features, the team added the migrate-to-codex skill through PR 364. This comprehensive tool helps developers migrate external agent configurations into Codex-compatible formats. The skill includes migration scripts, reference documentation, and CLI tools across 19 files, adding nearly 3,700 lines…
The team also introduced a hatch-pet skill via PR 384, authored by Dominik Kundel. This new skill handles pet animation workflows, including sprite atlas composition, frame extraction, and animation processing. The skill spans 21 files with comprehensive scripting tools and quality assurance documentation.
In catalog maintenance, the team removed two legacy skills. PR 378 eliminated the curated Sora skill, removing over 2,400 lines across 14 files including documentation, assets, and CLI components. PR 382 removed the doc skill, cutting an additional 586 lines across 6 files. Both removals clean up the skills catalog…
The migrate-to-codex skill represents a significant…
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