Constraint: Public skills are published only by explicit administrator action unless they are tracked third-party market sources.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep private/internal skills out of the public marketplace and preserve normal incremental market Git history.
Tested: Marketplace validation passed.
Constraint: Upstream next-skills is a multi-skill collection under skills/*/SKILL.md.\nRejected: Copy upstream README badge/install docs | marketplace README stays install-focused and plugin content avoids nonessential images.\nConfidence: high\nScope-risk: moderate\nDirective: Use skill-collection with skillsPath for repositories organized as direct child skill directories.\nTested: python scripts/validate_marketplace.py; python /Users/eapil/.codex/skills/.system/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py plugins/codex/plugins/next-skills; temp CODEX_HOME codex plugin marketplace add/list/add plus debug prompt-input.\nNot-tested: scripts/sync_external_plugins.ps1 execution because pwsh/powershell is not installed.
Constraint: Public skills are published only by explicit administrator action unless they are tracked third-party market sources.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep private/internal skills out of the public marketplace and preserve normal incremental market Git history.
Tested: Marketplace validation passed.
Constraint: Public skills are published only by explicit administrator action unless they are tracked third-party market sources.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep private/internal skills out of the public marketplace and preserve normal incremental market Git history.
Tested: Marketplace validation passed.
Constraint: Public skills are published only by explicit administrator action unless they are tracked third-party market sources.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep private/internal skills out of the public marketplace and preserve normal incremental market Git history.
Tested: Marketplace validation passed.
Constraint: The public marketplace must not contain internal MCP endpoints, shared keys, project keys, or user-token workflows.
Rejected: Publishing every configured KeyInfo MCP server | internal knowledge, Firecrawl, and Outline servers are not public distribution targets.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep MCP publication behind an explicit allowlist and verify hidden plugin metadata before pushing.
Tested: python scripts/validate_marketplace.py; temporary CODEX_HOME marketplace list/add/remove for mcp-playwright; hidden rg scan for internal MCP URLs and key markers.
Not-tested: Live Playwright MCP browser tool invocation inside a fresh Codex session.
Keep the installable plugin selector ASCII while restoring the Chinese user-facing display name for the patent drafting skill.\n\nConstraint: Codex marketplace entry name is the install selector and must remain ASCII kebab-case.\nRejected: Put Chinese in marketplace.json name | Codex list/add skips or fails to resolve that selector.\nConfidence: high\nScope-risk: narrow\nDirective: Use interface.displayName for Chinese aliases; never put localized text in plugin ids, directories, manifest name, or marketplace entry name.\nTested: python scripts/validate_marketplace.py; python /Users/eapil/.codex/skills/.system/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py plugins/codex/plugins/patent-application-drafting-skill; temporary CODEX_HOME marketplace list and plugin add smoke test\nNot-tested: Interactive in-chat skill invocation was not rerun for this display-only change