Overview
- OpenAI added plugins to Codex, offering more than 20 installable options across the Codex app, the command‑line tool, and the VS Code extension.
- Each plugin bundles named skills, connectors to outside tools called MCP servers, and app integrations so teams can install one package instead of wiring pieces by hand.
- Early integrations include Box, Figma, Linear, Notion, Sentry, Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Hugging Face in a curated set meant to cover work before and after coding.
- Codex now shows a dedicated plugins tab with a built‑in directory, and the CLI supports a /plugins command for installing from the terminal.
- OpenAI says self‑serve publishing is not open yet, with an official Plugin Directory and broader publishing to come, and it offers @plugin-creator to import or scaffold plugins from other ecosystems as it tries to match Anthropic and Google’s similar models.