codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix skill management optimizing [1 comments, 2 participants]

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What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

⚠ Warning: Exceeded skills context budget of 2%. Loaded skill descriptions were truncated by an average of 223 characters per skill. I hate to see this and I think codex cli should not let skill use so many context, instead, there should be a skill picker to show user the choices of using a skill whenever needed, which can show detailed description, popularity, liked people number etc. the skill folder in .codex should only save skills that user selected, except the ones in .system/

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TL;DR

Implement a skill picker to limit the number of skills loaded and prevent exceeding the skills context budget.

Guidance

  • Consider introducing a skill selection mechanism to restrict the number of skills loaded at once, thus preventing the context budget from being exceeded.
  • The skill picker could display detailed descriptions, popularity, and other relevant information to help users make informed decisions about which skills to use.
  • The .codex skill folder could be modified to only store user-selected skills, with the exception of system skills in .system/.
  • To mitigate the issue, users could manually manage their skills by removing unused ones from the .codex folder.

Notes

The exact implementation details of the skill picker and skill management system are not specified, and may require further discussion or clarification.

Recommendation

Apply workaround: Implement a manual skill management process to limit the number of skills loaded and prevent exceeding the context budget, until a more robust solution like a skill picker can be developed.

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