Codex + Claude Code Skill Repos: May 23 Batch

A reference collection of skill repositories worth installing for both Codex and Claude Code, identified from the 5.23 screenshot batch and verified against GitHub trending charts the same week.

Direct skill repos (installed locally May 23)

Awesome-* curation lists (reference only — not installable)

Companion tools (not skills, but related to the workflow)

These showed up in the same trending charts and are worth knowing:

• colbymchenry/codegraph — code-graph indexing to cut token usage in Claude Code/Codex/Cursor
• safaiame/graphify — knowledge graph that auto-updates as code changes
• rohitg00/agentmemory — persistent memory layer for AI coding agents
• anthropics/financial-services — also a tool suite (subagents + data connectors), not just skills
• CloakHQ/CloakBrowser — stealth Chromium for browser-automation use cases
• playcanvas/supersplat — 3D Gaussian-Splat scene editor
• millionco/react-doctor — detects React code quality issues in AI-generated code
• kellyvv/PhoneClaw — on-device iPhone AI agent (Gemma 4 + MiniCPM-V)
• tinyhumansai/openhuman — personal AI superintelligence platform

Asen’s individual skill pack (mostly covered by oh-my-claudecode)

The 6 skills from 阿森编程日记 (IMG_6499-6504) are already available via oh-my-claudecode:

Codex content-generation skills (老张与AI pack, IMG_6468-6470)

Not yet installed. If wanted, search for:

• ai-image-generation — text → product/character/scene images
• ai-video-generation — text → demos/transitions/B-roll
• ai-avatar-video — 数字人 talking-head pipeline

(Q already has utility-skills:baoyu-image-gen and similar via the baoyu suite, so these may overlap.)

Karpathy’s CLAUDE.md template (IMG_6418)

Not a skill — a reference template for structuring CLAUDE.md files. Worth reading for the principles:

• Plan Mode First, Verify Relentlessly, Keep It Simple, Surgical Edits Only, Goal-Driven Execution, Parallelise with Subagents
• Simplicity First, No Laziness, Minimal Impact
• Tenacity, Leverage, Fun, Atrophy, Speedups ≠ Just Faster, Slopocalypse

(Many of these already echo Q’s CLAUDE.md, but the “Slopocalypse” / “signal vs hype” framing is fresh.)

How LearnAI Team Could Use This

• Academic research suite (Imbad0202) — drop-in research → write → review → revise pipeline. Perfect for paper writing assignments, MARIE thesis chapters, or literature reviews. Pair with derekwriting for style polish.
• trailofbits security skills — for the CS-336 (Program Analysis for Security) course, students can use the audit/vulnerability skills to analyze sample programs.
• openai/skills — figma-* skills useful for UI-heavy projects; notion-* skills for knowledge capture (Obsidian alternative); deploy-* skills (vercel/netlify/cloudflare/render) for shipping student projects.
• PaperSpine — motivation-driven paper writing with LaTeX-safe audits; useful for the formal program-analysis paper draft.

Real-World Use Cases

1. Shipping a course project — student uses vercel-deploy or aws-deploy skill in Codex to ship their LearnAI demo without learning Docker first.
2. Paper revision — Q runs paperspine audit on a draft to catch LaTeX issues + revision rationale gaps before submitting.
3. Pre-defense code review — MARIE thesis student runs trailofbits/skills vulnerability sweep on their codebase to catch obvious issues.
4. Course material capture — notion-meeting-intelligence + notion-knowledge-capture to convert lectures into structured notes.

Pinned source commits (for reproducibility)

Staging is 57 MB on disk (not 14 MB as initially estimated from git db size). Keep ~/skills-staging/ for future git pull updates, or delete after recording these hashes.

Install commands (May 23 batch — already executed)

Stage 1 — Clone with explicit dir names (avoids basename collision)

mkdir -p ~/skills-staging && cd ~/skills-staging
git clone --quiet https://github.com/openai/skills.git openai-skills
git clone --quiet https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git mattpocock-skills
git clone --quiet https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills.git imbad-cc
git clone --quiet https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex.git imbad-codex
git clone --quiet https://github.com/trailofbits/skills.git trailofbits-skills
git clone --quiet https://github.com/voidful/academic-skills.git voidful-academic
git clone --quiet https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpine.git paperspine
git clone --quiet https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services.git anthropic-financial

Stage 2 — Codex skills (~/.codex/skills/, +44 from this batch)

Final post-install count: 204 dirs in ~/.codex/skills/. The baseline measurement of “29” from initial ls | head -50 undercounted the pre-existing state because alphabetical truncation hid most entries; the actual pre-install state was ~160 (mostly trailofbits security skills + oh-my-claudecode auto-discoveries). The 44 net-new from this batch are: 39 openai/.curated + 1 academic-research-suite + 3 voidful paper-* + 1 PaperSpine codex.

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
# openai curated (39 skills, no collisions with prior installs)
cp -R ~/skills-staging/openai-skills/skills/.curated/*/ ~/.codex/skills/
# Imbad academic suite (1 skill)
cp -R ~/skills-staging/imbad-codex/skills/academic-research-suite/ ~/.codex/skills/
# voidful: the 3 missing (other 4 already installed)
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-reading ~/.codex/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-review ~/.codex/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-writing ~/.codex/skills/
# PaperSpine codex single-skill dist
cp -R ~/skills-staging/paperspine/dist/codex/paper-spine ~/.codex/skills/

Stage 3 — Claude Code plugin marketplaces (run interactively in CC)

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/trailofbits/skills
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpine
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Then /plugin install <name>@<marketplace> for each plugin you want.

Stage 4 — Claude flat skills (~/.claude/skills/)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
# openai curated (38 — pdf retained as exception, see below)
for d in ~/skills-staging/openai-skills/skills/.curated/*/; do
  name=$(basename "$d")
  [ -d ~/.claude/skills/"$name" ] || cp -R "$d" ~/.claude/skills/"$name"
done
# voidful all 7
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/experiment-design ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/idea-generation ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-reading ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-review ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/paper-writing ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/professor-fit-analyser ~/.claude/skills/
cp -R ~/skills-staging/voidful-academic/proof-writer ~/.claude/skills/
# PaperSpine Claude flat skills (7: paper-spine{,-audit,-build,-intake,-latex,-research,-rewrite})
cp -R ~/skills-staging/paperspine/dist/claude/skills/*/ ~/.claude/skills/

Exceptions / things to know

1. pdf skill was kept as Q’s pre-existing version — not overwritten with openai’s curated pdf. Q’s existing pdf is a proprietary/different skill (PDF read/write/OCR/forms). If you want to compare, the openai version is at ~/skills-staging/openai-skills/skills/.curated/pdf/.

2. OpenAI curated skill names flattened (no openai- prefix added). Future updates that add new openai skills with names matching skills you’ve installed from other sources will silently skip due to the [ -d ... ] || cp guard. Run a basename preflight check before re-importing.

3. trailofbits security skills appear via existing plugin install, not from this batch. ~/.codex/skills/ count of 73 includes prior trailofbits installs (differential-review, insecure-defaults, modern-python, agentic-actions-auditor, supply-chain-risk-auditor).

4. PaperSpine has dual platform output: dist/codex/paper-spine/ (single skill, copied to ~/.codex/skills/) AND dist/claude/skills/ (7 skills: paper-spine + 6 sub-skills, copied to ~/.claude/skills/).

Lessons

• Always check for collisions before bulk copy. I assumed openai/skills would collide with trailofbits’ differential-review etc., but those came from prior installs. False alarm — wasted a Codex round-trip on it.
• Symlinks matter. trailofbits/skills uses symlinks from .codex/skills/ into plugins/. cp -R preserves them (good); cp -RL dereferences (use only for frozen snapshots).
• Plugin marketplace > hand-clone. The marketplace flow gives proper update path + cache management. Hand-cloning into ~/.claude/plugins/ works but breaks /plugin lifecycle commands.
• One repo can ship dual platforms. PaperSpine has dist/codex/ AND dist/claude/skills/ — install both for full coverage. trailofbits has .claude-plugin/ AND .codex/. Look for these markers.

Source screenshots

5.23/IMG_6411.PNG through IMG_6505.PNG (34 images, 8 different recommenders / GitHub trending charts dated 5.21 – 5.23).