Codex reads its own copied skills, not your dotfiles — 35 copies had silently drifted
SeanOliver · x · 2026-09-25
Continuing his Claude Code/Codex skills thread, SeanOliver explains that Codex reads its own copies in /.agents/skills rather than his dotfiles, so source edits never took effect — and 35 of those copies had diverged from the source. His advice: check which folder each tool loads skills from before trusting that a skill is shared. Earlier he found that adding restriction files to four request-only skills shrank Codex's skill list from 141 to 137.
Related event: Developer Warns Codex and Claude Code Skills Sharing Is Broken(4 posts)→
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