codex-background SKILL.md skillA
codex-background from amelnagdy/delegate-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amelnagdy/delegate-skills/codex-background@v0.5.0Pins v0.5.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amelnagdy/delegate-skills
- Path
skills/codex-background/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.5.0, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 3, 2026
- Size
- 4,207 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,469
- License
- MIT
Keep a Codex orchestrator's delegation to an installed delegate skill pending until its registered relay completes, without model-driven progress polling. Use with a selected implementer delegate skill when Codex is the orchestrator and the delegation should wait in the background; sets up its MCP server on first use.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Codex background delegation This support skill changes Codex's waiting boundary. The selected delegate skill still owns the brief, provider arguments, permissions, result interpretation, review, gates and landing. Claude's background Bash workflow stays unchanged. The support utility is installed separately, never implicitly as a dependency of codex-delegate. Details: [references/configuration.md](references/configuration.md). ## First use / setup If the `delegate_run` tool is not available, setup is incomplete. Tell the user that bootstrap will update `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml` (default `~/.codex/config.toml`, backed up first) and write a registry of the installed `*-delegate` skills, then run: ```bash node "<skill-dir>/scripts/bootstrap.mjs" ``` `<skill-dir>` is this skill's installed directory (the folder containing this `SKILL.md`). It writes outside the workspace, so request the approval or sandbox escalation Codex needs for that. Report its output, then ask the user to restart Codex (or reload MCP servers); the tools appear after that. If bootstrap fails, report the failure. Do not fall back to shell polling. Run it again after …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amelnagdy/delegate-skills/codex-background@sha256:db3c6fa3c9832c38The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_htm5wpz4l6cgbkxn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 3, 2026.
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| v0.5.0 latest | 2026-10-03 | 5ff7e37 | 4,207 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-10-03 | 3ac4722 | 3,261 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-10-03 | 0b8a893 | 2,925 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amelnagdy/delegate-skills · 2,469 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_htm5wpz4l6cgbkxn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amelnagdy/delegate-skills/codex-background GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db3c6fa3c9832c38fc5ae402e36d820cf14af92202870dccb0777748c7946455
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.