Why SKILL skips symlinks ?
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Dec 10, 2025 by lanzhi-lee Closed Dec 10, 2025
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What feature would you like to see?
Why skill skips symlinks ?
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The skills feature is still under active development. We'll make an announcement when it's ready for experimental testing.
+1 on this. It looks like there is a specific conditional that skips symlinks. Would allow symlinks break something?
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/2e5d52cb14280b5f05f1cd6a5a540b9e31ac4f0a/codex-rs/core/src/skills/loader.rs#L183
For context, I have a repo of a bunch of skills in another repo and it would be nice to not have to cp or hard link all of the skills