Bug: Desktop app does not show installed Skills or Plugins
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Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.818.61809
What subscription do you have?
Business Plan
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
The ChatGPT desktop app does not show the Skills and Plugins that are installed on my account.
The web version correctly shows my installed and organization-shared Skills, including custom Skills such as:
PR Actor
Thermo-Nuclear Code Quality Review
grill-me
skill-creator
old-photo-enhancer
However, opening the Skills page in the desktop app only shows a set of generic/default Skills such as:
Image Gen
OpenAI Docs
Plugin Creator
Review Agent
Skill Creator
Skill Installer
My actual installed Skills are missing. The same problem appears to affect Plugins.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: no-active-thread-01a03831-53cd-7f40-9af6-0c2138366e51
What is the expected behavior?
The desktop app should show the same account-level installed Skills and Plugins as the web version.
Installed Skills, organization-shared Skills, and their installation state should be synchronized consistently across clients.
Additional information
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing the desktop app's Skills and Plugins view with the web version for the reported Business Plan account, using the provided Feedback ID and Windows environment. Done means installed and organization-shared Skills and Plugins, including their installation state, appear consistently in the desktop app.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100