openai-docs

openai-docs is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (3,863 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openai-docs, Apache-2.0.

A reference workflow for answering questions about OpenAI products, APIs, models, and Codex using current official developer documentation. It can also guide model selection, API migrations, and prompt updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find cited API details, explain OpenAI concepts, choose or upgrade models, update prompts, and answer questions about Codex.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or unofficial information. It also directs API implementation questions to the appropriate documentation and setup steps.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads ~/.codex paths; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to find cited API details, explain OpenAI concepts, choose or upgrade models, update prompts, and answer questions about Codex.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-skills/openai-docs
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill openai-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,863 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% 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 5.1 $0.00098 $0.03863
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.01545
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00773
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00386

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5cae604fb26d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openai-docs scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fetch-codex-manual.mjs, 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

4. Run the helper directly unless you need to override the cache dir. The helper falls back to `curl` when native `fetch` is unavailable or when proxy env vars are present, so no shell-specific proxy prefix is required.
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to openai-docs — 2 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.

skills-system/openai-docs/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 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. "Docs MCP" means mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__search_openai_docs and mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__fetch_openai_doc; for API reference, schema, parameter, or required-field questions, also use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__get_openapi_spec when available. Official-domain web search is fallback after those tools are unavailable or unhelpful. Broad Codex questions use the manual helper before Docs MCP. This skill also owns model selection, API model migration, and prompt-upgrade guidance.

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.

Workflow Configuration

Source Priority

  • For Codex self-knowledge, use the Codex source route below; it owns when to use the manual helper, Docs MCP, or bounded uncertainty.
  • For non-Codex OpenAI docs questions, use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__search_openai_docs to find the most relevant doc pages.
  • For non-Codex OpenAI docs questions, fetch the relevant page with mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__fetch_openai_doc before answering. If search is noisy, run a narrower Docs MCP search; when any plausible official OpenAI docs URL is known or found, try fetching that URL through Docs MCP before relying on web-search content.
  • For API reference, schema, parameter, or required-field questions, use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__get_openapi_spec when available to verify the API shape alongside the relevant guide or reference page.
  • Use mcp__openaiDeveloperDocs__list_openai_docs only when you need to browse or discover non-Codex 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 · 168 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 5cae604fb26d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openai-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,863 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 95% identical to openai-docs, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.