Use Case
OpenAI Official Skills is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. The official skills directory maintained by OpenAI for use with Codex CLI and compatible AI coding assistants. Created in late 2025 as OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's skills ecosystem, it provides reference implementations for common development workflows β code review, testing, documentation, and deployment. As the second major AI lab to adopt the SKILL.md standard, OpenAI's entry signals that agent skills are becoming a universal interface for AI-assisted development. This guide walks you through installing OpenAI Official Skills, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install OpenAI Official Skills: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install openai-official-skills
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to ai agent to trigger OpenAI Official Skills
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine OpenAI Official Skills with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing OpenAI Official Skills
Help me get started with OpenAI Official Skills
What can OpenAI Official Skills do for my ai agent workflow?
Show me an example of using OpenAI Official Skills
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install openai-official-skillsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install openai-official-skillsβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/openai-official-skills/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.