Download 0.2.0
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-skillsStart a new Codex task after installation. Chef contains two skills—chef and chef-prepare-shop—and both can activate from ordinary requests. No MCP server, app, hooks or runtime executable is included.
Portable Agent Skills
Download the stable Agent Skills ZIP, or copy the two folders from plugins/chef/skills/ into your project's .agents/skills/. The instructions and Markdown templates are the complete runtime package; Python is used only by repository maintainers for validation and packaging.
Third-party agents must support Agent Skills or provide another way to load each SKILL.md. Durable automatic memory also requires local file access. Without it, Chef still helps conversationally for the session and must not claim anything was saved.
First use
Ask Chef to set itself up. On local Codex it creates readable Markdown under ~/Documents/Chef by default:
Set up Chef for our household. We usually cook for two,
one person is allergic to peanuts, and we like quick Korean meals.The folder contains a compact MEMORY.md, detailed weekly plans and only the recipes you explicitly ask to save or favourite. Advanced users and automated tests can set CHEF_DATA_DIR to use a different directory.
If you start with an ordinary meal request, Chef helps first and asks once afterwards whether you want durable files. Chef 0.2 does not migrate, read, modify or delete an existing chef.sqlite3.
Archived records-oriented release
If you need the Python and SQLite workflow, internal recipe versions or explicit approval states, the Chef 0.1.0 release remains available. It is archived rather than migrated into 0.2.
Review the privacy notes before adding household data, and the safety boundary before enabling optional Computer Use.