skills Skill collection

A catalog of skills for Codex.

Deprecated: its README points to openai/plugins for current Codex skills and plugins.

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28,602 stars on GitHub, Nov 9, 2026 · 12 skills

Its skills, most installed first

pdf

Use it when:
You're creating or reviewing a PDF where layout and visuals matter.
It does:
Builds PDFs with reportlab, extracts text with pdfplumber or pypdf, and renders pages to PNG with Poppler to look at them.

type:tool effect:local needs:cli by:official pdf documents stack:python

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
13.7K
top 38%
Weekly Downloads
146
bottom 27%
security-best-practices

Use it when:
You explicitly ask for secure-by-default code, a security review or a security report on a Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or Go project.
It does:
Identifies every language and framework in scope, frontend and backend, and reads the skill's matching security guides before it writes or reviews.

type:workflow effect:local needs:none by:official security code-review stack:python stack:javascript stack:typescript stack:go

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
12.1K
top 41%
Weekly Downloads
426
top 46%
gh-fix-ci

Use it when:
A pull request's GitHub Actions checks are failing and you want them diagnosed and fixed.
It does:
Checks gh is logged in, finds the PR for the current branch or the one you name, and pulls the failing runs' logs with a bundled Python script.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official ci debugging stack:github

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
11.8K
top 41%
Weekly Downloads
150
bottom 28%
playwright

Use it when:
The agent needs a real browser from the terminal: open pages, fill forms, extract data, take screenshots or debug a UI flow.
It does:
Runs Playwright's command-line tool through a bundled wrapper that calls it with npx, so no global install is needed.

type:tool effect:remote needs:cli needs:browser by:official browser-automation scraping stack:playwright

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
9.2K
bottom 47%
Weekly Downloads
319
bottom 50%
security-threat-model

Use it when:
You explicitly ask to threat model a codebase or path, or to list its abuse paths.
It does:
Maps components, data flows, trust boundaries, assets and entry points from evidence in the repo, then ranks threats by likelihood and impact.

type:workflow effect:local needs:none by:official security architecture

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
8.8K
bottom 44%
Weekly Downloads
283
bottom 47%
figma-implement-design

Use it when:
You have a link to a Figma frame or component and want it built in your codebase to match the design.
It does:
Fetches the node's design context, a screenshot and its assets through the Figma MCP server, then rewrites Figma's React and Tailwind output in your project's conventions.

type:workflow effect:local needs:mcp needs:account by:official implementation design-system verification stack:figma

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
7K
bottom 34%
Weekly Downloads
114
bottom 21%
screenshot

Use it when:
You ask for a desktop screenshot, or the agent needs to see an app that no browser or Figma tool can capture.
It does:
Runs a Python helper on macOS and Linux, or a PowerShell one on Windows, to capture the full screen, an app's windows, the active window or a region.

type:tool effect:local needs:cli by:official computer-use image verification

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
6.3K
bottom 29%
Weekly Downloads
81
bottom 16%
imagegen

Use it when:
A project needs a raster asset, new or edited: a photo, illustration, texture, sprite, mockup or transparent cutout.
It does:
Decides between a new image and an edit, labels each input image's role, rewrites your prompt as a labelled spec, generates, inspects and changes one thing at a time.

type:workflow effect:local needs:account by:official image ai-generation stack:openai stack:codex

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
6.1K
bottom 27%
Weekly Downloads
207
bottom 40%
jupyter-notebook

Use it when:
You want a new .ipynb notebook, or rough notes, a script or a messy notebook turned into one that others can read and re-run.
It does:
Picks an experiment or a tutorial layout, scaffolds the file from a bundled template with a Python script, then fills it with small cells, each explained in Markdown.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official research documents stack:jupyter stack:python

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
5.9K
bottom 24%
Weekly Downloads
106
bottom 21%
playwright-interactive

Use it when:
The agent is building a local web or Electron app in Codex and should check its own work in a real browser before calling it done.
It does:
Keeps Playwright's browser, page and Electron handles alive in a js_repl kernel, reloading for renderer changes and relaunching for main-process ones.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli needs:browser by:official testing verification browser-automation stack:playwright stack:electron stack:codex

Age
8 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
5.7K
bottom 21%
Weekly Downloads
82
bottom 16%
skill-creator

Use it when:
You want to write a new skill for Codex or update one you have.
It does:
Asks for concrete examples of use, plans the scripts, references and assets they call for, scaffolds the folder with init_skill.py and checks it with quick_validate.py.

type:workflow effect:local needs:none by:official skill-authoring stack:codex

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
5.1K
bottom 3%
Weekly Downloads
89
bottom 18%
gh-address-comments

Use it when:
Reviewers have left comments on the open pull request for your current branch and you want them worked through.
It does:
Checks gh is logged in, runs a bundled Python script that prints every comment and review thread, then numbers them with what each fix would take.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli by:official code-review stack:github

Age
9 months
Stars
28.6K
top 29%
Total Downloads
5K
bottom 2%
Weekly Downloads
96
bottom 19%