Experimental skills Github link is 404ing

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Feb 8, 2026 by joshverd Closed Mar 11, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (xl-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

260206.1448 (565)

What subscription do you have?

Business

What issue are you seeing?

When clicking the Experimental skills link in the "Skill Installer" skill description, the link 404s.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1) visit skills tab
2) click "Skill Installer"
3) Click https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.experimental

<img width="737" height="776" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aa2351f6-f18e-412b-aaec-c813adb38a12" />

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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6 Comments

xl-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Are you able to open the link directly? It should be a public repo and the link works on my end.

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Which platform are you using? What is your default web browser?

joshverd · 5 months ago

Looks like the commit 15 hours ago resolved this issue, as the link is no longer 404ing. Sorry for the noise!

jayrajput · 4 months ago
etraut-openai contributor · 4 months ago

Thanks for reporting. I've updated the skill description to remove the outdated link.

jayrajput · 4 months ago

The https://github.com/openai/skills/blob/main/README.md refers to experimental link which is also broken. https://github.com/openai/skills/blob/main/skills/.experimental

Can you also share the actual link for experimental skill as well?