openai / openai/codex

Make all available curated skills browseable in the Desktop Skills catalog

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Description

What variant of Codex are you using?

App, in ChatGPT desktop on macOS.

What feature would you like to see?

Please provide a way to browse all available curated skills in Plugins → Skills without entering a search query.

Some skills appear when I search for them but aren't visible in the unfiltered listings. Examples include gh-address-comments, gh-fix-ci, and yeet. Search works, but discovering these skills requires already knowing what to search for.

To observe the difference:

  1. Open Plugins → Skills with the search field empty.
  2. Browse the available listings for those skills.
  3. Search for one of their names and observe that it appears in the results.

A Browse all view, pagination, or Show more control would address this. Featured or recommended sections can remain, with a clear route to the complete catalog. Every curated skill available through search should also be reachable by browsing.

Additional information

Observed with ChatGPT desktop 26.901.31953 (build 7868) on macOS 27.0, Apple Silicon.

This request concerns discovering available skills in the Desktop catalog. #16091 describes a similar search-only discovery problem in the CLI's $ picker, but that report concerns browsing already installed skills in a different UI.

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Research direction

Start in the Desktop app's Plugins → Skills catalog and compare the empty-search listings with results for gh-address-comments, gh-fix-ci, and yeet. Trace how the catalog populates both states; done means every curated skill available through search is reachable without entering a query, via browsing, pagination, or Show more.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
macos, rust
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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