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 Geminis command line interface. 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. The idea is that they make it possible to configure Codex in...
