microsoft-SkillOpt/plugins/codex/README.md

SkillOpt-Sleep — Codex integration

Give your Codex agent a nightly sleep cycle: it reviews past sessions offline, replays your recurring tasks on your own Codex budget, and consolidates what it learns into validated memory + skills behind a held-out gate. Same engine as the Claude Code plugin (skillopt_sleep), wrapped for Codex.

Verified on Codex: on the public gbrain-evals skillopt-v1 benchmark, a deliberately deficient skill goes 0.00 → 1.00 on a held-out set with the Codex backend (incl. the tool-use seed via a real tool loop). See the SkillOpt-Sleep guide section.

What Codex supports (and what we use)

Codex (@openai/codex) extends via AGENTS.md instructions, skills at ~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md, and plugins that can distribute skills. Custom prompts are deprecated in Codex, so this integration is skill-first: the installed skillopt-sleep skill contains the launch commands and operating rules. The shared runner remains a plain shell entrypoint that the skill calls.

Install

git clone <repo-url> SkillOpt-Sleep
cd SkillOpt-Sleep
bash plugins/codex/install.sh          # installs the skill
export SKILLOPT_SLEEP_REPO="$(pwd)"    # so the runner is found from anywhere

If a previous install created ~/.codex/prompts/sleep.md, the installer moves that deprecated prompt aside with a .skillopt-legacy*.bak suffix.

Requires Python ≥ 3.10 and the codex CLI on PATH.

Use

Mention $skillopt-sleep where Codex supports explicit skill mentions, or ask Codex in natural language:

Use the skillopt-sleep skill to run status for this project.
Use the skillopt-sleep skill to run a dry-run for this project.
Use the skillopt-sleep skill to run the full cycle for this project with the Codex backend.
Use the skillopt-sleep skill to adopt the latest staged proposal.

Or call the engine directly:

python -m skillopt_sleep dry-run --project "$(pwd)" --source codex --backend mock
python -m skillopt_sleep run --project "$(pwd)" --source codex --backend codex \
  --max-sessions 5 --max-tasks 3 --progress
python -m skillopt_sleep run --project "$(pwd)" --source codex --backend codex \
  --target-skill-path .agents/skills/example/SKILL.md \
  --max-sessions 5 --max-tasks 3 --progress

--source codex reads Codex Desktop archived sessions from ~/.codex/archived_sessions. Use --codex-home /path/to/.codex to point at a different Codex home, or --source auto to try Codex archives first and fall back to Claude Code transcripts. Default backend is mock (no API spend). --backend codex uses your Codex budget for real improvement. Bound live runs with --max-sessions and --max-tasks; add --progress because Codex-backed mining, replay, and reflection can be slow and otherwise quiet. Use --target-skill-path to stage/adopt into a repo-scoped Codex skill such as .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md; target runs over-sample mined tasks and prefer tasks that match the target skill's path, headings, and content. All the controllable knobs (--gate on|off, --rollouts-k, --budget-tokens, --preferences, optimizer/target split) work identically — see the SkillOpt-Sleep guide section.

For privacy-sensitive projects, split the run into reviewable steps:

python -m skillopt_sleep harvest --project "$(pwd)" --source codex \
  --target-skill-path .agents/skills/example/SKILL.md \
  --max-sessions 5 --max-tasks 3 \
  --output reviewed-tasks.json

python -m skillopt_sleep dry-run --project "$(pwd)" --backend codex \
  --tasks-file reviewed-tasks.json --progress --json

Inspect/redact the JSON and set "reviewed": true before using a real backend. --tasks-file skips archive harvest/mining and replays only the reviewed JSON tasks; real backends refuse task files still marked "reviewed": false.

Notes / status

• Codex's exec runs shell, so the real-tool-loop replay (e.g. the tool_called: search benchmark seed) works natively.
• This integration no longer installs a .codex/prompts slash command. Skills are the reusable Codex workflow surface; mention skillopt-sleep explicitly or ask for a sleep/dream/offline self-improvement run and Codex can load the skill.