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cli-creator

Build a composable CLI for Codex from API docs, an OpenAPI spec, existing curl examples, an SDK, a web app, an admin tool, or a local script. Use when the user wants Codex to create a command-line tool that can run from any repo, expose composable read/write commands, return stable JSON, manage…

Published by OpenAI160 lines in SKILL.md
Source
openai/skills/skills/.curated/cli-creator
Repository owner
openai

Install

Read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing: a skill runs with your agent's permissions. This copies just this skill into Claude Code's user skills folder; other agents read skills from their own folder.

Claude Code (user-level)

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/openai/skills.git /tmp/skills
cd /tmp/skills && git sparse-checkout set "skills/.curated/cli-creator"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "skills/.curated/cli-creator" ~/.claude/skills/cli-creator

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Works with

Agent Skills is an open format, so this skill loads in any harness that supports it, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, goose, OpenHands. Some skills are written for one product and say so in their description.

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Reviewed Oct 5, 2026. Name and description are the skill's own frontmatter.