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Codex Issues / #9816

cannot detect skill in <repo>/.codex/skills

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Jan 24, 2026 by SunRunAway Closed Jan 26, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

v0.89.0

What subscription do you have?

plus

Which model were you using?

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What platform is your computer?

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

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

cannot detect skill in <repo>/.codex/skills

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. mkdir testskill && cd testskill && mkdir -p .codex/skills/sampleskill && curl -o .codex/skills/sampleskill/SKILL.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/skills/refs/heads/main/skills/.experimental/linear/SKILL.md
  1. run codex
  1. /skill -> list skills -> no such skill

<img width="1710" height="611" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6ba778d3-0ad1-4305-86e8-30de939ab5f3" />

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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4 Comments

Atopoz · 7 months ago

I tested multiple versions locally and found that:

  • 0.87 works correctly and loads without errors.
  • 0.88 and 0.89 both fail to load in my environment.

This strongly suggests the regression was introduced in 0.88 and persists in 0.89.

Nikola-Milovic · 7 months ago

Doesn't detect .codex/config.toml either, I defined some mcp's and they weren't added.

codex-cli 0.89.0 doesn't work, and 0.87.0 does, similarly as @Atopoz mentioned

etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

This should be fixed in the next release. If you want to try a prerelease, install 0.90.0-alpha.5. Let us know if that addresses it for you.

CongDon1207 · 7 months ago

i have the same problem