Openai Docs
OfficialOfficial openai skill for OpenAI — helps with building AI and machine learning applications.
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terminal$ npx skills add openai/skills --skill openai-docs -a claude-code Uses the open-source
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What we know about this skill
Publisher
openai
Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.
Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.
No undeclared network calls: failed
Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: developers.openai.com.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
Hosts contacted
developers.openai.comundeclaredWhat it found (3 of 8)
- skills/.curated/openai-docs/agents/openai.yaml:14contacts developers.openai.com
url: "https://developers.openai.com/mcp" - skills/.curated/openai-docs/scripts/fetch-codex-manual.mjs:19contacts developers.openai.com
const DEFAULT_MANUAL_URL = "https://developers.openai.com/codex/codex-manual.md"; - skills/.curated/openai-docs/scripts/resolve-latest-model-info.js:7contacts developers.openai.com
"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model.md";
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned openai/skills at 49f948faa9.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 49f948faa9
- Scanned
- 16 files, 2,707 lines
- Copies in repo
- 2 — all of them scanned
About this skill
What it does
The openai-docs skill provides access to OpenAI's documentation, enabling AI agents to retrieve detailed information about APIs, models, and usage guidelines. It supports querying specific sections of the documentation for accurate and up-to-date guidance.
When to use it
- When an AI agent needs to understand how to use a particular OpenAI API endpoint.
- To fetch details on model parameters or capabilities for fine-tuning or deployment.
- When troubleshooting issues related to OpenAI's services by referencing official documentation.
Key capabilities
- Access to OpenAI’s full API and model documentation.
- Ability to search and retrieve specific documentation sections.
- Integration with AI agents for real-time information retrieval.
Example prompts
- "How do I use the ChatCompletion API?"
- "What are the parameters for the GPT-4 model?"
- "Where can I find information about rate limits in OpenAI's API?"
Tips & gotchas
- Ensure your agent has internet access to fetch documentation from OpenAI’s servers.
- Documentation may change over time, so always verify the latest version directly on OpenAI’s site if needed.