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Plugin Support in Codex
OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini's command line interface).
Definition of Plugins
What OpenAI calls plugins are actually bundles that may include skills (prompts that describe workflows to Codex—a standard feature in tools like this these days), app integrations, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.
Purpose and Benefits
The idea is that they make it possible to configure Codex in certain ways for specific tasks to be easier for the user and replicable across multiple users in an organization.
Plugin Bundle Components
- Skills: Prompts describing workflows
- App integrations
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers
