skill-creator

# Skill Creator Create skills that give Codex useful, non-obvious guidance without constraining unrelated work. ## Core Principles **Assume Codex is already capable.** Include only information that changes its decisions or improves its work. Remove generic advice, repeated instructions, speculative edge cases, and examples that do not materially clarify the task. **Preserve user intent and scope.** A skill should support the requested task, not replace the user's chosen product, expand the assignment, modify unrelated configuration, or imply permission for additional external actions. Do not turn a particular example, past failure, or personal preference into a universal requirement. Approval to complete a task does not expand its scope or execution permissions. For retrying or externally mutating workflows, define a stopping condition proportional to the risk. **Match specificity to the risk.** Give the model room to choose an appropriate approach when multiple approaches are reasonable. Use detailed steps, deterministic scripts, or absolute language only when correctness, safety, permissions, or a genuinely fragile workflow requires them. For open-ended work, describe the outcome and relevant decision criteria. For workflows with a preferred shape, offer useful examples or configurable scripts. Reserve fixed sequences and narrow parameters for operations where deviation would cause a concrete problem. Preserve non-obvious operational invariants, distinguish actual re...