About codex-bug
A skill for triaging bug reports filed in the openai/codex GitHub repository. It gathers issue details and evidence, then helps decide whether to investigate, request missing information, or explain why the report is not a bug.
Key features
- 01Validates issue URLs
- 02Fetches issue and comments
- 03Summarizes reproduction details
- 04Checks evidence and environment
- 05Recommends next action
Use cases
- 01Triage a Codex GitHub issue
- 02Identify missing reproduction details
- 03Prepare a source-based investigation
- 04Explain a documented behavior
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ openai/ codex --skill codex-bugAfter installing, type/codex-bugin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMECodex Bug
Overview
Diagnose a Codex GitHub bug report and decide the next action: verify against sources, request more info, or explain why it is not a bug.
Workflow
- Confirm the input
- Require a GitHub issue URL that points to
github.com/openai/codex/issues/…. - If the URL is missing or not in the right repo, ask the user for the correct link.
- Network access
- Always access the issue over the network immediately, even if you think access is blocked or unavailable.
- Prefer the GitHub API over HTML pages because the HTML is noisy:
- Issue:
https://api.github.com/repos/openai/codex/issues/<number> - Comments:
https://api.github.com/repos/openai/codex/issues/<number>/comments
- Issue:
- If the environment requires explicit approval, request it on demand via the tool and continue without additional user prompting.
- Only if the network attempt fails after requesting approval, explain what you can do offline (e.g., draft a response template) and ask how to proceed.
- Read the issue
- Use the GitHub API responses (issue + comments) as the source of truth rather than scraping the HTML issue page.
- Extract: title, body, repro steps, expected vs actual, environment, logs, and any attachments.
- Note whether the report already includes logs or session details.
- If the report includes a thread ID, mention it in the summary and use it to look up the logs and session details if you have access to them.
- Summarize the bug before investigating
- Before inspecting code, docs, or logs in depth, write a short summary of the report in your own words.
- Include the reported behavior, expected behavior, repro steps, environment, and what evidence is already attached or missing.
- Decide the course of action
- Verify with sources when the report is specific and likely reproducible. Inspect relevant Codex files (or mention the files to inspect if access is unavailable).
- Request more information when the report is vague, missing repro steps, or lacks logs/environment.
- Explain not a bug when the report contradicts current behavior or documented constraints (cite the evidence from the issue and any local sources you checked).
- Respond
- Provide a concise report of your findings and next steps.
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