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, and Microsoft development stacks, while also modernizing existing skills for GPT-5.4 compatibility.
Duration: PT5M30S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenAI Skills.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenAI Skills
- Published: 2026-03-08T10:28:57Z
- Audio duration: PT5M30S
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Welcome to this week's recap of OpenAI Skills! I'm genuinely excited to dive into what happened during the week of March first through eighth, because wow - what a week of expansion and growth this has been.
Let's start with the numbers that tell the story: we saw 9 merged pull requests and 9 additional commits flow through the repository. But those numbers don't capture the real impact here. This was a week where the skills ecosystem took some major leaps forward, both in breadth and depth.
The biggest theme I'm seeing is what I'm calling "The Great Skills Expansion" - and it really feels like the team has been working systematically to fill gaps in the skills catalog while modernizing what already exists.
Let's talk about the new skills that landed this week. First up, we have the brand new ChatGPT Apps skill from cching-openai. This is a comprehensive addition that brings scaffolding, refactoring, and troubleshooting capabilities for ChatGPT Apps SDK development. What I love about this implementation is how…
Then we have the slides skill making its way from the internal repository to the curated collection, thanks to vb-openai's work on syncing these capabilities. This brings…
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