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title: "The new github skill installed automatically by codex now causes it to prepend [codex] to each..."
date: 2026-04-05
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2040761244697641250/
x_url: https://x.com/onusoz/status/2040761244697641250
license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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The new github skill installed automatically by codex now causes it to prepend [codex] to each PR title

This is a guerilla marketing tactic similar to Claude adding itself as co-committer

Codex team, I know you want to boast usage but this is annoying

Moreover, "open source" OpenAI repos block opening of PRs by people outside of their org. So I couldn't create a PR to remove it (I don't expect them to merge it, but it would still show how many people hate it in the discussion)

Here is a prompt for your agent if you want to disable it:
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Add or update AGENTS.md in my ~/.codex folder
Add a rule "You MUST NOT insert coding agent specific branding, like [codex], in code, PRs or issues created on GitHub"
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Then restart your sessions and this should be resolved