Plan meals
Riff on the real week—dates, people, portions, energy, leftovers and budget—then approve one exact plan.
Plan together. Keep the useful context. Shop with a human in control.
Chef is a local-first set of five Agent Skills that carries a household from “what should we eat?” to an approved plan, exact recipes, a grocery list and useful feedback.
Stable release 0.1.0 is available from GitHub. The OpenAI directory listing is not yet published.
01 // THE USEFUL BOUNDARY
Conversation for intent. Local records for decisions.
Chef can help a household think out loud, but the chat is never the only copy of what matters. People, explicit constraints, preferences, plans, recipe versions, grocery plans and outcomes live in a folder the user chooses.
The included Python utility uses SQLite and JSON without a hosted Chef account. It can produce human-readable exports and backups. Local files are permission-restricted where supported, but they are not application-level encrypted in v0.1.
02 // FIVE FOCUSED SKILLS
One workflow, without one enormous prompt.
Manage the household
Keep explicit allergies and dietary needs separate from ordinary likes, dislikes and reviewable hunches.
Keep exact recipes
Save immutable recipe versions, scale their ingredients and remember which version was actually planned.
Prepare the shop
Compile a traceable grocery plan, export it anywhere, or optionally prepare a basket after a separate approval.
Learn from dinner
Record portions, effort, leftovers and feedback without silently inventing new safety rules.
03 // OPTIONAL COMPUTER USE
Automation is a capability, not a promise.
Chef always works as a grocery-list export. When the user’s agent has an appropriate browser or Computer Use capability, Chef can optionally help prepare a provider-neutral basket after a separate, exact approval.
It sets absolute intended quantities and requires verification evidence. If the result is unclear, it says so. Checkout, payment, fulfilment, restricted products and order placement remain human-controlled.
Read the shopping and safety boundaries04 // GET CHEF
Download or install the stable release.
Download the OpenAI plugin, use the portable Agent Skills package, or clone the public repository. Start a new Codex task after installation.
git clone https://github.com/DanielFerguson/chef-skills.git
cd chef-skills
codex plugin marketplace add .
codex plugin add chef@chef-skills