OpenAI Releases ChatGPT AI Agent Skills

By Greg Isenberg

Categories: Startup, Product

Summary

OpenAI quietly launched Codex skills, a game-changing feature that lets you build reusable AI capabilities. It's a major opportunity for founders and builders to create AI-powered apps and products at scale.

Key Takeaways

1. Codex now supports 'skills' - reusable bundles of instructions that help Codex complete specific tasks, like automatically fixing GitHub CI failures or reading/updating Notion specs.
2. You can call a skill directly with $skill_name or let Codex choose the right one based on your prompt, enabling more consistent and powerful AI-powered workflows.
3. Opportunity to build products, apps, and businesses around the 'face yoga' trend, which sees 110,000 monthly searches and $1 average TPC with low competition.
4. The presenter is hosting a 2-day 'Offline Mode' event in Florida for founders with $50k+/month businesses to learn how to 'put it in rocket ship mode' with AI-first strategies.

Topics

• Codex Skills
• AI-Powered Workflows
• Face Yoga Trend
• Offline Mode Event

Transcript Excerpt

What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Startup Ideas podcast. Today is December 22nd. I'm going to talk about a huge news item. OpenAI quietly launched something not a lot of people are talking about. I'm going to talk about one trend you could take advantage of, build a business around. I'm going to talk about one app that I'm using that I think you should too. I'm going to talk about one startup idea and just give it away to you. And at the end, I'm going to give you a mobile app framework so you...