Codex Workflows

Codex Workflows is a Codex-only fork of obra/superpowers. It packages the workflow as a native Codex plugin plus a skills library for design, planning, execution, debugging, and review.

The package now follows a Natural-Language Agent Harness model. Agents and reviewers should start from docs/language-contracts/ for human-facing workflow authority, while deterministic mechanics and explicit tool interfaces remain in code when code is the right tool.

Included workflow skills

• brainstorming
• writing-plans
• subagent-driven-development
• executing-plans
• test-driven-development
• systematic-debugging
• requesting-code-review
• receiving-code-review
• verification-before-completion

Install in Codex

1. Clone the plugin locally:

   mkdir -p ~/plugins
   git clone https://github.com/MaxFabian25/codex-workflows.git ~/plugins/codex-workflows

2. Register the local plugin.

   If ~/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json does not exist yet, create it with this full file content:

   {
     "name": "local-codex",
     "interface": {
       "displayName": "Local Codex Plugins"
     },
     "plugins": [
       {
         "name": "codex-workflows",
         "source": {
           "source": "local",
           "path": "./plugins/codex-workflows"
         },
         "policy": {
           "installation": "AVAILABLE",
           "authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
         },
         "category": "Developer Tools"
       }
     ]
   }

   If ~/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json already exists, append this object inside its plugins array without changing unrelated entries:

   {
     "name": "codex-workflows",
     "source": {
       "source": "local",
       "path": "./plugins/codex-workflows"
     },
     "policy": {
       "installation": "AVAILABLE",
       "authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
     },
     "category": "Developer Tools"
   }

3. Restart Codex.

4. Start a new session with:

   Use codex-workflows:session-router before we start.
   

The package ships a native SessionStart hook as a lightweight adapter for the same router instruction. Manual session start remains the fallback when a host does not load plugin hooks.

Detailed Codex setup and workflow guidance lives in docs/README.codex.md.

Verify

Confirm the plugin and language-contract surfaces exist:

test -f ~/plugins/codex-workflows/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
test -f ~/plugins/codex-workflows/hooks/hooks.json
test -x ~/plugins/codex-workflows/hooks/session-start
test -f ~/plugins/codex-workflows/docs/language-contracts/README.md
test -f ~/plugins/codex-workflows/docs/language-contracts/session-router-playbook.md

Confirm Codex plugin support is enabled:

codex features list | rg '^plugins[[:space:]]+stable[[:space:]]+true$'

Updating

Pull the local plugin clone, then restart Codex:

git -C ~/plugins/codex-workflows pull

If you moved the clone to a different path, update the plugin registration path and restart Codex.

Uninstalling

First remove the codex-workflows entry from ~/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json.

Then delete the local clone:

rm -rf ~/plugins/codex-workflows

The optional cmux team launcher is outside this core package unless a companion package explicitly owns it. The visual brainstorming companion remains package feature runtime when the brainstorming skill offers it and the user accepts it.

Support

• Issues: https://github.com/MaxFabian25/codex-workflows/issues
• Security advisories: https://github.com/MaxFabian25/codex-workflows/security/advisories/new

Upstream origin

This fork derives from obra/superpowers and retains the MIT license.