Agent skill · software engineering · aradotso
awesome-codex-subagents
awesome-codex-subagents — an agent skill for coding agents.
Why this skill is useful
Adds 136+ specialized Codex subagent definitions in TOML format that enhance Codex's capabilities across various development roles.
What it needs
Requires openai-codex-cli installed locally. Requires openai account access. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
bash git clone https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-codex-subagents.git cd awesome-codex-subagents bash mkdir -p ~/.codex/agents Install a single agent cp categories/01-core-development/backend-developer.toml ~/.codex/agents/ Install an entire category cp categories/01-core-development/.toml ~/.codex/agents/ Install all agents cp categories//.toml ~/.codex/agents/ bash mkdir -p .codex/agents cp categories/04-quality-security/reviewer.toml .codex/agents/ cp categories/04-quality-security/security-auditor.toml .codex/agents/ awesome-codex-subagents/ ├── categories/ │ ├── 01-core-development/ │ │ ├── backend-developer.toml │ │ ├── frontend-developer.toml │ │ ├── api-designer.toml │ │ └── ... │ ├── 02-language-specialists/ │ │ ├── python-pro.toml │ │ ├── typescript-pro.toml │ │ ├── rust-engineer.toml │ │ └── ... │ ├── 03-infrastructure/ │ │ ├── devops-engineer.toml │ │ ├── kubernetes-specialist.toml │ │ ├── terraform-engineer.toml │ │ └── ... │ ├── 04-quality-security/ │ │ ├── code-reviewer.toml │ │ ├── security-auditor.toml │ │ ├── qa-expert.toml │ │ └── ... │ └── ... toml name = "backend-developer" description = "When to invoke: building APIs, server logic, database models, authentication, or any server-side feature" model = "gpt-5.3-codex-spark" modelreasoningeffort = "medium" sandboxmode = "workspace-write" [instructions] text = """ You are a senior backend engineer specializing in scalable server-side architecture... Core Responsibilities Design and implement RESTful and GraphQL APIs Write performant database queries and ORM models Implement authentication and authorization patterns ... """ Ask the backend-developer subagent to add a POST /api/users endpoint with email validation and bcrypt password hashing. Use the typescript-pro subagent to refactor src/utils/date.js to TypeScript with strict types. Have the code-reviewer subagent review the changes in src/auth/ for security issues and best practices. 1. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aradotso/awesome-codex-subagents