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Codex Tip Converts Repeated Prompts Into Reusable Skills And Subagents

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Codex Tip: ask Codex to look through your past sessions and turn repeated prompts into reusable skills + subagents you’ll probably find the same stuff showing up again and again: “check why CI failed” “review this PR” “write the changelog” “trace this bug” “clean up this diff” make it a skill if it’s a repeatable workflow or, make it a subagent if it’s a specific job you want to delegate

11:33 AM · May 23, 2026 View on X

Copy and paste this into your codex:

“Look through my recent Codex sessions and identify repeated workflows or repeated asks.

For anything I keep doing manually, suggest: 1. a skill if it is a reusable workflow 2. a custom subagent if it is a bounded role or investigation task

Focus on practical things like CI failures, PR reviews, changelogs, docs updates, release prep, debugging, and test triage.

Create the useful ones only. Keep them simple.”

Vaibhav (VB) SrivastavVaibhav (VB) Srivastav@reach_vb

Codex Tip: ask Codex to look through your past sessions and turn repeated prompts into reusable skills + subagents you’ll probably find the same stuff showing up again and again: “check why CI failed” “review this PR” “write the changelog” “trace this bug” “clean up this diff” make it a skill if it’s a repeatable workflow or, make it a subagent if it’s a specific job you want to delegate

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