Install Chef from source.

Download 0.1.0

• Chef plugin ZIP
• Portable Agent Skills ZIP
• SHA-256 checksums

Codex plugin

Chef's supported OpenAI package is a skills-only plugin. Clone the public repository, register its repo-local marketplace and install the plugin:

git clone https://github.com/DanielFerguson/chef-skills.git
cd chef-skills
codex plugin marketplace add .
codex plugin add chef@chef-skills

Start a new Codex task after installation. You should see five Chef skills. No MCP server, app or hooks are included.

Portable Agent Skills

Download the stable Agent Skills ZIP, or copy the five folders from plugins/chef/skills/ into your project's .agents/skills/. Copy plugins/chef/scripts/ to .agents/scripts/ so the shared CLI remains at the path each skill expects.

Third-party agents must support the Agent Skills folder convention or provide a way to load each SKILL.md. Their browser and Computer Use capabilities vary; grocery export remains available without them.

First use

Chef will ask where to keep your data. The suggested location is Documents/Chef. It stores only that folder pointer in your user configuration. The selected folder holds SQLite data, exports and backups you explicitly create.

plugins/chef/scripts/chef-local init --data-dir "$HOME/Documents/Chef"

Review the privacy notes before adding household data, and the safety boundary before enabling optional Computer Use.