feat: improve codex-agent skill score (78% → 93%)#4
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- Rewrote description with explicit "Use when..." clause and natural trigger terms (+32% description) - Added user-invocable: true and triggers array for frontmatter compliance - Consolidated deprecated patterns into single concise subsection - Condensed design boundary section from verbose list to single paragraph - Replaced model suggestion bullets with scannable table - Tightened safety, verification, and notes sections for conciseness Score improvement: 78% → 93% (+15%)
Hey @dztabel-happy 👋 I ran your skills through `tessl skill review` at work and found some targeted improvements. Here's the full before/after: | Skill | Before | After | Change | |-------|--------|-------|--------| | codex-agent | 78% | 93% | +15% | This PR covers your 1 skill in the repo. Changes in codex-agent: - Description rewritten with explicit "Use when..." clause and natural trigger terms - Added user-invocable: true and triggers array for frontmatter compliance - Consolidated deprecated patterns into single concise subsection - Condensed design boundary section from verbose list to single paragraph - Replaced model suggestion bullets with scannable table - Tightened safety, verification, and notes sections for conciseness Also includes .github/workflows/skill-review.yml for automated skill review on future PRs.
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Hey @dztabel-happy 👋
I ran your skills through
tessl skill reviewat work and found some targeted improvements. Here's the full before/after:This PR covers your 1 skill in the repo.
What changed in codex-agent
user-invocable: trueandtriggersarray for frontmatter compliancegpt-5.2,steer,collaboration_modes,sqlite) into a single concise subsection instead of four separate "don't" bulletsTessl Skill Review GitHub Action ✅
I've also included a GitHub Action (
.github/workflows/skill-review.yml) that automatically reviews anySKILL.mdchanged in future PRs and posts scores as a PR comment.What this gives you:
tessl skill reviewruns on every PR touchingSKILL.mdGITHUB_TOKENis usedfail-threshold: 70later if you want a hard gate)Want automatic AI optimization on every SKILL.md change? 🚀
The action I've added gives you review scores on PRs. We also have a more powerful variant —
tesslio/skill-review-and-optimize— that can:SKILL.mdPR (requires addingTESSL_API_TOKENas a repo secret)/apply-optimizeInterested? Tick the box and I'll raise a follow-up PR:
tesslio/skill-review-and-optimizeaction so every SKILL.md PR gets AI optimization suggestions + the/apply-optimizeflowHonest disclosure — I work at @tesslio where we build tooling around skills like these. Not a pitch — just saw room for improvement and wanted to contribute.
Want to self-improve your skills? Just point your agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) at this Tessl guide and ask it to optimize your skill. Ping me — @rohan-tessl — if you hit any snags.
Thanks in advance 🙏