Official documentation, API references, and ChatGPT Work
Use this route for OpenAI product or API documentation, examples, citations, ChatGPT Work, learning content, mixed Chat/Work/Codex comparisons, and narrow Codex product documentation. Follow the root skill's official-source order and credential boundary.
An explicit OpenAI documentation question stays documentation-first even when embedded in a broader repository, Promptfoo, agent-evaluation, PLANS.md, frontend, tool-use, image, Realtime API, SDK installation, or streaming-debugging task. Search the exact requested official documentation and open or fetch its relevant page before inspecting local files, drafting a plan, running evals, reading bundled references, or invoking the Codex manual. Then use the fetched official source to complete the requested work.
Find the smallest useful source
- Search the exact topic with a specific, title-like query containing 2-6 essential terms. Prefer an already-available direct official documentation search and page-retrieval capability; search, then fetch or open the best page or section. Otherwise, immediately use official-domain web search and actually open or fetch the result.
- If the results are noisy, narrow the query. When a plausible official documentation URL is available, open or fetch the page instead of relying on search snippets. Use an already available documentation index only when there is no clear search query.
- For API schemas, required fields, parameters, or endpoint shapes, use an already available OpenAPI or specification capability when it directly resolves the question. Otherwise verify the shape against the fetched official API guide or reference.
- Cite the exact official page supporting each consequential claim. Keep examples minimal, paraphrase instead of quoting at length, and state when official sources do not establish a capability, parameter, price, or availability.
Preserve an explicitly requested model in the search and answer. Search the requested topic directly for model-specific frontend and tool-use prompting, image input or generation, Realtime voice or translation, official Agents SDK installation, Responses streaming errors, and Codex Goals. A specific Codex feature, error, setting, or requested citation is a narrow documentation lookup, not the broad manual-first exception. Current or latest model recommendations follow the model-selection route and the same official search-and-fetch order.
ChatGPT Work and mixed surfaces
Treat a comparison between Chat, Work, and Codex as ChatGPT Work documentation, not broad Codex self-knowledge. Search learn.chatgpt.com and open or fetch the relevant official page. Useful starting pages are:
https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/use-chatgpthttps://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/get-started-with-work
If someone simply asks an API question from ChatGPT Work, answer the API question from the relevant API guide. Being in Work does not make it a question about the Work product.
Separate documented user-facing purposes from unsupported claims about underlying models, hard capability boundaries, file or context inheritance, exact UI labels, account entitlements, and rollout availability. When those details cannot be verified, cite the closest allowed official source and state the uncertainty.