[BUG] Skill creator skill is confusing for the agent (skill placement)

Open 💬 5 comments Opened Mar 17, 2026 by IgorWarzocha

What issue are you seeing?

When asking Codex to create a repo-level skill, it defaults to putting it in /skills/*/SKILL.md directory.

When asked to correct itself, it put it in /.codex/skills/*/SKILL.md , which is also incorrect - Codex (at least desktop) does not surface these skills. The only correct repo-level skill path is /.agents/skills/*/SKILL.md - and the agent isn't aware of this.

The easiest fix would probably to hardcode the bundled creator to canonical paths, or update the detection mechanism to include other dirs.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Ask Codex (in my case desktop) to use the skill creator skill to create a repo level skill (that is a mouthful)

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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