Codex Skill Curator

Codex Skill Curator

Use this skill when the user asks to clean up, audit, curate, archive, restore, or review Codex skills.

Curator Rules

1. Start with dry-run unless the user explicitly asks to mutate.
2. Only manage user-created or repo-created skills.
3. Never mutate bundled, system, admin, or plugin-distributed skills.
4. Respect pinned skills. Pinned skills can be patched, but not archived or deleted.
5. Archive instead of deleting. Archive moves must be reversible.
6. Take a backup before any mutating run.
7. Consolidate at the package level. If a skill has references/, templates/, scripts/, or assets/, preserve or re-home those files rather than flattening only SKILL.md.

Tooling

Prefer MCP tools from the bundled self-improving-skills server:

• codex_skill_curate for stale/archive candidates (each run persists a report under the data dir's logs/curator/ — cite it when summarizing)
• codex_skill_usage for telemetry
• codex_skill_archive for reversible archive moves (a name collision in .archive/ gets a timestamp suffix automatically; restore finds it)
• codex_skill_restore for archived skill recovery
• codex_skill_backups / codex_skill_rollback to list backups and restore one by exact backup_id — the rollback backs up the current content first, so it is itself undoable (undo_backup in the result)
• codex_skill_prune_backups to keep only the newest N backups per skill
• codex_skill_pin for pin/unpin
• codex_self_improvement_status for plugin health (shows last_curate_at and the last report path)

If MCP is unavailable, run:

python3 ../../scripts/skill_manager_cli.py curate --dry-run
python3 ../../scripts/skill_manager_cli.py usage
python3 ../../scripts/skill_manager_cli.py status

Resolve script paths relative to this SKILL.md location.