Plan, cook and remember
Riff on the real week, choose meals naturally, get practical recipes and Bevel-friendly nutrition estimates, then keep explicit household context in readable Markdown.
Plan dinner naturally. Keep the context you actually want.
Chef is a conversational meal-planning assistant that can remember explicit likes, dislikes, dietary needs and weekly plans in Markdown you can read and edit yourself.
Stable release 0.2.0 is available from GitHub. The records-oriented 0.1 release remains archived, and the OpenAI directory listing is still separate.
01 // THE USEFUL BOUNDARY
A conversation first. Plain files when memory matters.
On a local Codex host, Chef silently reads ~/Documents/Chef/MEMORY.md, then keeps detailed weekly plans and the recipes you explicitly save in nearby Markdown files. There is no Chef account, runtime utility or database to operate.
You can open those files, change the wording and add your own headings. Chef re-reads before editing and preserves manual changes. On hosts without local file access, the same conversation still works for the session, but Chef does not pretend it saved anything.
02 // TWO FOCUSED SKILLS
The whole meal-planning conversation, without the ceremony.
Prepare the shop
Build a reconciled grocery list or, after a direct cart request, preserve the existing basket, add sensible quantities and verify the result before handing it back.
03 // OPTIONAL COMPUTER USE
“Fill my cart” means fill it. Checkout still means stop.
Asking for a grocery list only produces a list. When you directly ask Chef to fill a cart, that request is enough authority to use an available browser or shopping capability—there is no approval token to repeat.
Chef first inspects and preserves what is already there, resolves sensible quantities, then checks the basket itself. If something cannot be verified, 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 two-skill package, or clone the public repository. There is no Python runtime to install. 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