imagegen
A sample skill bundled with OpenAI's Codex for generating or editing raster images such as photos, illustrations, sprites, mockups and cut-outs with transparent backgrounds.
Differs from the main skill, imagegen (67% the same text). May be an adapted copy or an older version.
What the skill teaches
A sample skill bundled with OpenAI's Codex for generating or editing raster images such as photos, illustrations, sprites, mockups and cut-outs with transparent backgrounds. By default the agent uses Codex's built-in image generation tool, which needs no API key, and can load a local image into the conversation to edit it. A Python command-line fallback with generate, edit and batch commands runs only when the user asks for it and needs an OPENAI_API_KEY set locally. The skill tells the agent not to use it when vector or code-drawn assets would suit better, to save images into the project rather than Codex's home folder, and not to overwrite files without permission.
Capabilities
- Generate photos, illustrations, sprites and mockups
- Edit an existing local image
- Produce images with transparent backgrounds
- Batch-generate images through a CLI fallback
About
- Publisher
- OpenAI
Works with
Install
The project doesn't document install steps that we could confirm. See the project's own instructions
What's inside
- LICENSE.txt
- agents/openai.yaml
- assets/imagegen-small.svg
- assets/imagegen.png
- references/cli.md
- references/codex-network.md
- references/image-api.md
- references/prompting.md
- references/sample-prompts.md
- scripts/image_gen.py
- scripts/remove_chroma_key.py
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This skill includes scripts that your agent may run.
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Image and video generation | |
| Publisher | OpenAI | source |
| Official status | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | Yes | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Codex | source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 2026134,863 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
Sources
- Web pageraw.githubusercontent.com · Backs: AI clients, Includes scriptsNov 15, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/openai/codex · Backs: Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/openai/skillsNov 15, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/openai/codexNov 10, 2026
- Folder in the repository (imagegen)github.com/openai/codex · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026