Installed and enabled plugin is visible, but its declared skills are missing from the session catalog

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.146.1

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

iTerm2 3.6.11

Codex doctor report

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}

What issue are you seeing?

The superpowers@openai-curated plugin is installed, enabled, and visible to new Codex sessions, but none of its declared skills are added to the session skill catalog.

codex plugin list reports:

• Status: installed, enabled
• Installed revision: 4c2b32e4

The plugin manifest reports version 5.1.3 and declares:

"skills": "./skills/"```

The declared skill files, including skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md and skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md, are present on disk.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, exiting Codex, and starting a completely new thread does not resolve the issue. A fresh session recognizes the Superpowers plugin but does not load its skills.

### What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Install `superpowers@openai-curated`.
2. Verify with `codex plugin list` that it is installed and enabled.
3. Exit Codex and start a completely new thread.
4. Inspect the session's available plugin and skill catalogs.

An independent fresh-session probe was run with:

```sh
codex exec --json -C <repository> \
  "Report whether the exact skill names superpowers:brainstorming and superpowers:writing-plans are present in your session skill catalog. Answer only with JSON containing booleans for those two names and a boolean for whether the Superpowers plugin appears in the available plugins catalog."

Actual result

{
  "superpowers:brainstorming": false,
  "superpowers:writing-plans": false,
  "superpowers_plugin_available": true
}

What is the expected behavior?

A newly created session should include the plugin's declared skills, including:

• superpowers:brainstorming
• superpowers:writing-plans

Additional information

Historical Codex sessions on this machine successfully loaded Superpowers skills from the earlier cached revision c6ea566d. The currently installed revision is 4c2b32e4, so this may be a regression in plugin packaging or Codex skill discovery.

codex plugin list successfully discovers the plugin, and a fresh session includes Superpowers in its available plugin catalog. The failure appears limited to loading the plugin's declared skills into the session catalog.