openai-docs

openai-docs is a skill for Codex from MasihMoafi/Elpis. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,099 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openai-docs, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for answering questions about OpenAI products, APIs, models, and Codex using current official developer documentation. It also covers model choices, upgrades, and API setup guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about building with OpenAI APIs, choosing or migrating models, writing prompts, configuring API-backed tools, and understanding Codex.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated or incomplete information when OpenAI products and their requirements change. It gives developers a consistent way to find and explain official guidance.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to answer questions about building with OpenAI APIs, choosing or migrating models, writing prompts, configuring API-backed tools, and understanding Codex.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/masihmoafi/elpis/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 MasihMoafi/Elpis --skill openai-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MasihMoafi/Elpis

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,099 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00113 $0.01099
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00440
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00110

Measured 16d ago against content hash aa6829e21df2, 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 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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fetch-codex-manual.mjs, scripts/resolve-latest-model-info.cjs), 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

100% identical to openai-docs — 221 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.

codex-rs/skills/src/assets/samples/openai-docs/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAI Docs

Provide current, cited OpenAI product, API, model, and Codex guidance. Read zero or one primary reference.

First substantive action: Search the user's exact requested official OpenAI documentation topic and any explicitly named model using a concise, topic-specific query of 2-6 essential terms. When an already-available direct official documentation search and page-retrieval capability is present, use it first: search, then fetch or open the matching official page before general web search. Otherwise, immediately use official-domain web search, then actually open or fetch the relevant official page. Complete this source order before reading a reference, inspecting local or repository files, running a Codex manual or model resolver, drafting a plan, or answering from memory. Use the actual fetched page, not a search snippet or an unopened link. If one official search or page does not establish the answer, search another appropriate official domain and actually open or fetch the result. Preserve the exact requested model; never substitute a newer model.

Only exception: An explicitly requested, genuinely broad, cross-topic Codex setup, orientation, or system-map synthesis may use the manual first when shell execution and an allowed temporary cache are available. A specific Codex feature, setting, command, error, model, or requested citation remains docs-first. Mixed Chat/Work/Codex comparisons are official documentation questions, not manual-first Codex requests.

For generic software tasks, answer the software task directly. OpenAI implementation, debugging, SDK, API, prompting, agent, and eval requests are not generic.

For a straightforward factual or citation-only request, follow the source order and do not read a route reference. This includes straightforward API facts, ChatGPT Work or mixed Chat/Work/Codex comparisons, model tiers, aliases, Pro mode, reasoning settings, factual migration baselines, and narrow Codex facts. Prioritize learn.chatgpt.com for ChatGPT Work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 16d ago Changed · -145 lines · +8 tokens per session aa6829e21df2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 184 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 9914a79e6e1b

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openai-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository MasihMoafi/Elpis (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,099 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to openai-docs, differing in 221 lines, and is treated as a copy.