How this term appears in the material In the captured video, skills are presented as the end state of OpenAI’s Codex playbook: you pick a hard recurring process, teach the agent the real work, and then turn what you hand off into skills that the agent can run again on its own [^80173b13-be8f-504f-b4a0-b42e68c711bf]. A Google Drive Audit skill is an example of that pattern — a packaged, repeatable routine the agent executes against files stored in Google Drive, rather than a step you redo by hand each time. Why it fits the playbook The material frames skills as the durable artifact of delegation: