Codex New Agent Skill

Create adaptive Codex-native agents with durable memory, onboarding, daily logs, and dreaming-style consolidation.

This skill scaffolds a workspace agent that lives entirely inside a Codex project. It borrows the best parts of OpenClaw and Hermes-style agents, but removes always-on background behavior: no heartbeat, no daemon, no subagent roster, no ACTIVE.md.

What It Creates

AGENTS.md
SOUL.md
USER.md
MEMORY.md
logs/daily/
.agents/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md
.codex/config.toml
.codex/hooks.json
.codex/hooks/dreaming.py

The generated agent:

• loads SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, and today's/yesterday's logs on boot;
• writes compact daily logs after meaningful turns;
• immediately saves durable user preferences and corrections to long-term memory;
• uses Codex hooks to detect when dreaming is due;
• adapts its helpfulness model over time;
• asks confirmation only for destructive, irreversible, external, or high-risk actions;
• uses Codex native CreateSkill when repeated workflows deserve a skill.

Install

In Codex, ask:

Install this skill:
https://github.com/sekachev/codex-new-agent-skill/tree/main/codex-new-agent

Or install with the bundled skill installer:

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
  --url https://github.com/sekachev/codex-new-agent-skill/tree/main/codex-new-agent

Restart Codex after installing.

Use

Ask Codex:

Use codex-new-agent to create a new agent in /path/to/my-agent called Atlas for Nikolai.

The skill runs:

python3 scripts/create_agent.py /path/to/my-agent --agent-name Atlas --user-name Nikolai

Then open the generated folder in Codex and say:

Begin onboarding

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Codex New Agent Skill
Scaffold adaptive Codex-native agents with SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, daily logs, onboarding, hooks, and dreaming-style memory consolidation.

Suggested repo description:

Create adaptive Codex-native agents with memory, onboarding, hooks, and dreaming.

Suggested topics:

codex, codex-skill, ai-agent, memory, onboarding, openclaw, hermes-agent, agent-skills

License

MIT