MSN: 10 Essential Skills Every Prepper Should Master: From Survival to Thriving Skills build on the open agent skills standard. Skills are the authoring format for reusable workflows. Plugins are the installable distribution unit for reusable skills and apps in Codex.

Understanding the Context

Use skills to design the workflow itself, then package it as a plugin when you want other developers to install it. | `ADMIN` | `/etc/codex/skills` <br /> Any skills checked into the machine or container in a shared, system location. | Use for SDK scripts, automation, and for checking in default admin skills available to each user on the machine. | If you’re new to Codex or coding agents in general, this guide will help you get better results faster.

Key Insights

It covers the core habits that make Codex more effective across the CLI, IDE extension, and the Codex app, from prompting and planning to validation, MCP, skills, and automations. Codex works best when you treat it less like a one-off assistant and more like a teammate you configure and ... Skills support The Codex app supports the same agent skills as the CLI and IDE Extension. You can also view and explore new skills that your team has created across your different projects by clicking Skills in the sidebar. Customization is how you make Codex work the way your team works.

Final Thoughts

In Codex, customization comes from a few layers that work together: Project guidance (AGENTS.md) for persistent instructions Skills for reusable workflows and domain expertise MCP for access to external tools and shared systems Subagents for delegating work to specialized subagents These are complementary, not competing. AGENTS ...