openai-docs

A guide for using current official documentation when building with OpenAI products and APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find and explain OpenAI developer documentation, choose models, migrate APIs, improve prompts, and configure or debug API-backed tools.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated model names, API details, or recommendations when implementing or upgrading an OpenAI-based project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbusillo/code/openai-docs
Any agent
npx skills add cbusillo/code --skill openai-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbusillo/code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,536 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00074 $0.01536
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00154

Measured yesterday against content hash 1ee3c911a5c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openai-docs scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/resolve-latest-model-info.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to openai-docs — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

code-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/openai-docs/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAI Docs

Provide authoritative, current guidance from OpenAI developer docs using the developers.openai.com MCP server. Always prioritize the developer docs MCP tools over web.run for OpenAI-related questions. This skill also owns model selection, API model migration, and prompt-upgrade guidance. Only if the MCP server is installed and returns no meaningful results should you fall back to web search.

API Key Setup

For requests to build, run, configure, debug, or implement an API-backed app, script, CLI, generator, or tool, use openai-platform-api-key first when available. After that credential gate is resolved, return here for current docs as needed.

Use this skill directly for docs-only questions, citations, model/API guidance, conceptual explanations, and examples that do not require building or running an API-backed artifact.

Quick start

  • Use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__search_openai_docs to find the most relevant doc pages.
  • Use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__fetch_openai_doc to pull exact sections and quote/paraphrase accurately.
  • Use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__list_openai_docs only when you need to browse or discover pages without a clear query.
  • For model-selection, "latest model", or default-model questions, fetch https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model.md first. If that is unavailable, load references/latest-model.md.
  • For model upgrades or prompt upgrades, run node scripts/resolve-latest-model-info.js only when the target is latest/current/default or otherwise unspecified; otherwise preserve the explicitly requested target.
  • Preserve explicit target requests: if the user names a target model like "migrate to GPT-5.4", keep that requested target even if latest-model.md names a newer model. Mention newer guidance only as optional.
  • If current remote guidance is needed, fetch both the returned migration and prompting guide URLs directly. If direct fetch fails, use MCP/search fallback; if that also fails, use bundled fallback references and disclose the fallback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 89 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 1ee3c911a5c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openai-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbusillo/code (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,536 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to openai-docs, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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