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Create or update a Codex skill with appropriately scoped instructions and any needed supporting resources.

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# Skill Creator

Create skills that give Codex useful, non-obvious guidance without constraining unrelated work.

## Core Principles

**Assume Codex is already capable.** Include only information that changes its decisions or improves its work. Remove generic advice, repeated instructions, speculative edge cases, and examples that do not materially clarify the task.

**Preserve user intent and scope.** A skill should support the requested task, not replace the user's chosen product, expand the assignment, modify unrelated configuration, or imply permission for additional external actions. Do not turn a particular example, past failure, or personal preference into a universal requirement.

Approval to complete a task does not expand its scope or execution permissions. For retrying or externally mutating workflows, define a stopping condition proportional to the risk.

**Match specificity to the risk.** Give the model room to choose an appropriate approach when multiple approaches are reasonable. Use detailed steps, deterministic scripts, or absolute language only when correctness, safety, permissions, or a genuinely fragile workflow requires them.
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