Feature Request: Skip Auto-Triggered Skills

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 8, 2026 by teraoka-k Closed Apr 8, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

Feature Request: Skip Auto-Triggered Skills

Problem

Skills are auto-triggered and cannot be skipped per request.

For trivial tasks (e.g., small config changes), this forces heavy workflows like TDD (via superpowers), which is unnecessary and wastes time.

Current workarounds are not viable:

  • uninstalling useful skills, or
  • modifying trigger conditions

The latter is especially problematic because skills are distributed via public repos, so local modifications are overwritten and not maintainable.

Request

Allow skipping skills without uninstalling them, e.g.:

  • prompt-level opt-out ("skip skills")
  • per-skill mode (auto / manual / off)

Why

Auto-triggering without an opt-out makes otherwise useful skills disruptive in real workflows.

Additional information

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #16172
  • #16127

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teraoka-k · 4 months ago

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/10585#issuecomment-4183067933

skill/
├── SKILL.md
└── agents/
    └── openai.yaml
policy:
  allow_implicit_invocation: false

With that setting, the skill is not injected implicitly, but it can still be invoked explicitly via $skill-name.