creative-ads-explorer

codex-skills-alternative

An open, portable reimplementation of two Codex role plugins — Creative Production and Product Design — as 19 vendor-neutral Agent Skills (SKILL.md): 17 task skills + 2 orchestrators that route to them.

Why this exists. OpenAI announced the Creative Production and Product Design plugins for Codex (June 2026), but they ship only inside Codex through the in-app Plugin Directory — and their source is not published. This repo brings the same workflows to every other agent that OpenAI doesn't serve: Claude Code, opencode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot. It's an independent, by-the-spec reimplementation written from the public descriptions — no proprietary prompts copied. (Already on Codex? You likely don't need this — use the official plugins. See the Codex note below.)

Each skill is tool-agnostic: it references generic capabilities ("an image-generation tool", "a browser-automation tool", "a web-fetch tool") so you can wire it to whatever you have — DALL·E / Imagen / FLUX / SD / Midjourney for images, Playwright for the browser, any fetch/search MCP for the web.

What's inside

Orchestrators (2 skills)

Start here — they read your request and route to the right sub-skill.

Creative Production (8 skills)

Turn a brief into reviewable visual assets.

Product Design (9 skills)

Turn early ideas into reviewable prototypes.

Suggested flows

• Creative: explore / moodboard / positioning → scene · shot · ads-explorer · offer → polish
• Design: get-context → research · audit → ideate → image-to-code · url-to-code → prototype → qa → share

Installation

A skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md. "Installing" = putting that folder where your agent looks for skills. Pick your tool below.

Quick install (any tool)

git clone https://github.com/DKeken/codex-skills-alternative.git
cd codex-skills-alternative
./install.sh            # auto-detects installed agents, installs globally
./install.sh --help     # see options (per-tool, project scope, dry-run)

The script copies each skills/<name>/ folder into the right directory for every agent it detects. Manual instructions per tool follow.

Codex (as a real plugin) — usually unnecessary

If you're on Codex, you probably don't need this. OpenAI ships the official Creative Production and Product Design plugins in the in-app Plugin Directory ("Curated by OpenAI") — if they're available in your region/plan, use those; they're more polished and wire up Figma/Canva/Shutterstock/Picsart/Fal for you.

This bundle is worth installing on Codex only as a fallback (official not rolled out to you yet) or if you want an open, vendor-neutral, hackable version with no proprietary app dependencies. The repo is still a valid Codex plugin:

git clone https://github.com/DKeken/codex-skills-alternative.git
codex plugin marketplace add ./codex-skills-alternative
codex plugin install codex-skills-alternative@codex-skills-alternative-marketplace

Or skip the plugin and just copy the skills (below) — same result, no marketplace.

Claude Code

Source: official docs.

# Personal install (all 19)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

# Project install (this repo only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -R skills/* .claude/skills/

Claude Code watches the directory live — no restart needed. Invoke with /design-get-context or let it auto-trigger by description.

opencode / Codex CLI

opencode and Codex read the universal .agents/skills/ path plus their own dirs.

# opencode (global)
mkdir -p ~/.config/opencode/skills && cp -R skills/* ~/.config/opencode/skills/

# Codex CLI (global)
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/* ~/.codex/skills/

# Or the portable path both pick up:
mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R skills/* ~/.agents/skills/

Restart Codex after copying so it picks up new skills.

Cursor

Source: Cursor docs. Cursor is project-scoped (no personal dir) but also reads ~/.cursor/skills/ and, for compatibility, .claude/skills / .codex/skills / .agents/skills.

# Project install
mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -R skills/* .cursor/skills/

Then reload: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P → "Developer: Reload Window". Skills appear in Settings → Rules → "Agent Decides". Invoke with /design-audit or by description.

You can also import from GitHub: Settings → Rules → Add Rule → Remote Rule (GitHub) → paste this repo URL.

Gemini CLI / GitHub Copilot / others

These follow the same SKILL.md standard and read ~/.agents/skills/ (or their vendor dir). Use the universal path:

mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R skills/* ~/.agents/skills/

Path reference

Wiring the tools

These skills name capabilities generically. Map them to whatever your agent has:

If a capability is missing (e.g