/skills picker only shows 8 items in 0.117.0 and no longer allows browsing the full skill list

[UchihaObito-75]

What version of Codex?

Codex CLI 0.117.0

What happened?

In 0.117.0, the /skills picker only shows a small initial subset of skills (in my case, 8 items), and I can no
longer browse the rest of the installed skills by moving up/down in the picker.

Example of what is initially shown:

• API Design
• Article Writing
• Backend Patterns
• Bun Runtime
• Claude API
• Coding Standards
• Content Engine
• Crosspost

However, other skills are still installed and are still discoverable if I manually type/search for them by name. So
this does not seem to be a skill loading failure. It looks like a picker/display limitation or regression.

What I expected

I expected /skills to let me browse more than the first 8 items, either by:

• continuing to scroll through the full list
• paginating
• or showing a "more" / expanded list behavior
  useful.

Why I think this is a UI/picker issue rather than a skill install issue

On my machine:

• the extra skills are installed
• they can still be found if I manually type their names
• the app-server skills/list interface appears to return a full skill list and does not expose limit, page,
  or cursor parameters

So the behavior seems to be in the /skills picker UI rather than in skill discovery itself.

Possible regression

I believe 0.116.0 allowed broader browsing of the skill list, while 0.117.0 appears to only show a short
initial subset.

Requested improvement

Please restore one of these behaviors:

• full scrollable browsing in /skills
• pagination for long skill lists
• an explicit "show more" affordance
• or a config option to control how many skills are shown initially

Environment

• OS: Linux
• Codex CLI: 0.117.0
• Skills are installed under ~/.codex/skills

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• custom prompts and custom skills gone on codex-cli 0.117.0 #15972
• Regression after update: custom slash commands disappear and local custom skills are missing from /skill list #15939

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[etraut-openai]

Version 0.117.0 removed support for custom prompts, which have been deprecated for some time. Convert them to skills (or have codex do it for you).