Flox Environments Skill for Codex
Create reproducible, cross-platform development environments with Flox — a declarative environment manager built on Nix. ALWAYS use this skill when the user needs to: set up a project with system-level dependencies (compilers, databases, native libraries like openssl, libvips, BLAS, LAPACK); configure reproducible toolchains for Python, Node.js, Rust, Go, C/C++, Java, Ruby, Elixir, PHP, or any language; manage environments that must work identically across macOS and Linux; pin exact package versions for a team; run local services (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka) alongside development tools; onboard new developers with a single command; or solve 'works on my machine' problems. Especially valuable for AI-assisted and vibe coding — Flox lets agents install tools into a project-scoped environment without sudo, system pollution, or sandbox restrictions, and the resulting environment is committed to the repo so anyone can reproduce it instantly. Use this skill even if the user doesn't mention Flox — if they describe needing reproducible, declarative, cross-platform dev environments with system packages, this is the right tool. Also use when the user mentions .flox/, manifest.toml, flox activate, or FloxHub.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/mturac/everything-openai-codex --skill flox-environmentsOther skills for the same job
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How to use it
Take mturac/everything-openai-codex-flox-environments from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.
The instructions reference pip, uv, npm.
Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.