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The README's "clone and copy" install command copies codex-dynamic-workflows into ~/.codex/skills/, but Codex CLI doesn't read .codex/skills — it discovers skills from .agents/skills directories ($CWD/.agents/skills up to the repo root, and ~/.agents/skills at user scope). So a user who follows the README verbatim installs a Codex-orchestration skill into a folder Codex never scans, and it silently never loads.

-this example uses Codex's default skills folder:
+this example uses Codex's user-scope skills folder (`~/.agents/skills`):

-mkdir -p "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills"
-cp -R codex-dynamic-workflows "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills/"
+mkdir -p "$HOME/.agents/skills"
+cp -R codex-dynamic-workflows "$HOME/.agents/skills/"

Ref: Codex's own build-skills docs — "Codex reads skills from .agents/skills directories, not .codex/skills." (The top "Install the AI agent skill at …" line via the agent-skills flow is unaffected; this only fixes the manual clone-and-copy path.)

Found while auditing the repo's skills; the scripts and skill bodies otherwise checked clean.

…eads

Codex CLI discovers skills from .agents/skills directories ($CWD/.agents/skills
up to repo root, and ~/.agents/skills at user scope), not .codex/skills. The
README's copy command installed codex-dynamic-workflows into ~/.codex/skills,
where Codex never looks — so a user following it verbatim ends up with a
Codex-orchestration skill Codex can't find. Point it at ~/.agents/skills and
correct the 'Codex's default skills folder' wording.
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