Prompt file imported from vamseeachanta/workspace-hub (.codex/prompts/README.md). Copyright stays with the author.

Codex Prompt Templates

Prompt templates for OpenAI Codex CLI when a .claude/skills/ equivalent is not available or not applicable.

Purpose

Claude Code has a skills marketplace (.claude/skills/). Codex CLI does not have an equivalent plugin system, so structured prompt templates live here instead. Each template is a plain Markdown file containing instructions that can be fed to codex via stdin or the -p flag.

Format

Each prompt file should follow this structure:

# <Prompt Name>

## Context
One-line description of when to use this prompt.

## Instructions
Step-by-step instructions for the task.

## Output Format
Expected output structure (code, YAML, prose, etc.).

Usage

# Pipe a prompt template to codex
cat .codex/prompts/<template>.md | codex -p "Apply this to <target>"

# Or reference inline
codex -p "$(cat .codex/prompts/<template>.md) Apply to src/foo.py"

Relationship to Skills

• Canonical skills live in .claude/skills/ (workspace-hub root).
• .codex/skills/ symlinks to .claude/skills/ for shared skill access.
• This prompts/ directory is for Codex-specific prompt templates that have no skills equivalent.