Skills for your AI
Designs, evaluates, and sources custom packaging across materials, cost, sustainability, compliance, and specialized product categories, returning options with rationale and trade-offs. Use when a packaging engineer needs design concepts, material comparisons,
Formats evaluation notes for CLIs, agents, and dev tools into a single-page cyber-terminal deck with CRT styling, three-tier tags, and stroke-only bar charts. Use when the user provides evaluation notes, trace/diff/benchmark data, or findings to tag and wants
Plans and runs data collection for process improvement, covering source identification, method design, survey creation, quality assurance, analysis, automation, mining, social and IoT data, and visualization. Use when the user needs to find data sources, desig
Designs, documents, validates, and plans data structures—ERDs, normalization, data dictionaries, integration mappings, and migration plans—from schemas and business requirements. Use when an analyst needs entity/relationship analysis, attribute definitions, mo
Designs, reviews, normalizes, optimizes, documents, secures, and migrates database schemas and advises on ER modeling, data types, indexing, partitioning, and integrity rules. Use when the user asks for an ER diagram, schema design or review, normalization hel
Use when the user asks to design database schemas, plan data migrations, optimize queries, choose between SQL and NoSQL, or model data relationships.
Provides database transaction management guidance covering log monitoring, failure troubleshooting, performance optimization, rollback and recovery, concurrency and isolation, auditing, integrity design, distributed transactions, backups, and long-running tran
Validates a user's understanding of code, design patterns, and implementation details through Socratic questioning. Use when the user asks to demonstrate understanding of a feature, component, pattern, or design, or wants their reasoning probed and verified ag
Produces brand assets, logos, design tokens, UI mockups, banners, icons, social photos, presentation slides, and brand identity deliverables from user requests. Use when the user asks for a logo, mood board, color palette, typography, brand voice, brand guidel
Audits pages and designs for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across automated scans, keyboard, screen reader, contrast, zoom, touch target, and form checks. Use when a page or design needs an accessibility review before launch or a specific WCAG criterion must be verif
Use when Codex should act as the Brand Guardian specialist from Agency Agents. Expert brand strategist and guardian specializing in brand identity development, consistency maintenance, and strategic brand positioning
Guides UX/UI designers through design concept development, from user research and personas to ideation, wireframing, testing, and presentation. Use when starting a design project, comparing competitor UX, creating personas or journey maps, brainstorming concep
Runs the full design critique cycle — stakeholder feedback questions, usability analysis, prototype iteration, A/B tests, critique sessions, feedback forms, instant critique, collaboration tools, mentorship, and performance tracking. Use when a UX designer nee
Provides structured, honest design feedback on usability, visual hierarchy, consistency, and accessibility, returning a markdown critique with severity levels and prioritized recommendations. Use when a design image or link is shared for review, or when the us
Generates a complete developer handoff specification from a design mockup or description, covering layout and tokens, component props and states, responsive and edge case behavior, and animation and accessibility notes. Use when a design needs to be documented
Audits design systems for hardcoded values, naming drift, duplicate components, missing states and accessibility gaps, documents components, and proposes new patterns. Use when asked to audit tokens or components, document a component, check missing states or
Use when Codex should act as the Image Prompt Engineer specialist from Agency Agents. Expert photography prompt engineer specializing in crafting detailed, evocative prompts for AI image generation. Masters the art of translating visual concepts into precise l
Use when Codex should act as the Inclusive Visuals Specialist specialist from Agency Agents. Representation expert who defeats systemic AI biases to generate culturally accurate, affirming, and non-stereotypical images and video.
Captures a reference website's visual design language and applies its colors, typography, spacing, and shapes to an existing codebase. Use when the user wants their app or site restyled to match another site, asks to extract design tokens from a URL, or wants
Analyzes, optimizes, and validates product designs through parametric modeling, simulation, sensitivity and multi-objective optimization, material selection, cost, sustainability, supply chain, and reliability work. Use when an R&D engineer needs design altern
Explains, implements, compares, selects, and troubleshoots software design patterns with code examples and best-practice guidance. Use when an engineer asks what a pattern is, wants runnable code for a pattern in a given language, needs help choosing a pattern
Explains, compares, and provides runnable code examples for classic software design patterns, including Command-based undo/redo, real-world applications, and pitfalls. Use when a developer asks to understand a pattern, implement one in a language, choose betwe
Use when Codex should act as the Persona Walkthrough Specialist specialist from Agency Agents. Simulate cognitive walkthroughs of web pages from a defined persona's psychological perspective — captures emotional reactions and rational thought at each scroll po
Captures the user's brand identity once via a 10-question onboarding wizard (primary/accent HEX + heading + body Google Fonts + design style editorial/technical/minimal/playful + default output directory + syntax theme + TOC behavior + optional logo/company),
