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Analysis updated 2026-05-18

196PythonAudience · pm founderComplexity · 2/5LicenseSetup · moderate

In one sentence

OpenAI's plugin templates that configure Codex for specific job roles like sales, data analytics, product design, and financial markets.

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  root((Role-Specific Plugins))
    What it does
      Configures Codex per role
      Packages skills and connectors
      Built with OpenAI teams
    Plugins
      Sales
      Data Analytics
      Product Design
      Financial Markets
    Structure
      Manifest file
      App bindings
      Skills folder
    Use cases
      Meeting prep
      Dashboard building
      Equity research

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Set up Codex with a Sales plugin that prepares meeting briefs and reviews pipeline status

USE CASE 2

Configure a Data Analytics plugin that connects Codex to tools like Snowflake or BigQuery for querying and dashboards

USE CASE 3

Give Codex a Financial Markets plugin for equity research, valuation work, and investment memos

What is it built with?

PythonCodex

How does it compare?

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Stars196196196
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultymoderatehardhard
Complexity2/55/55/5
Audiencepm founderresearcherresearcher

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Connector-backed plugins ship with placeholder app IDs that must be replaced with real connector IDs from your workspace before use.

MIT license: use, modify, and redistribute freely, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

So what is it?

This repository from OpenAI contains plugin templates that make Codex, OpenAI's AI coding and task assistant, easier to configure for specific professional roles. Rather than a general-purpose setup, each plugin packages the instructions, tool connections, and starter files a team needs to put Codex to work on role-specific tasks from the start. The templates were developed with OpenAI's own subject matter experts around workflows that teams were already using internally and with early partners. Four plugins are included. The Sales plugin prepares users for meetings, follows up after calls, reviews pipeline status, finds account context, and helps build deal plans. It connects to tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Gmail, and other sales platforms. The Data Analytics plugin handles querying, visualizing, and validating datasets, building dashboards, and investigating metrics, with connectors for Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Amplitude, and similar tools. The Product Design plugin helps create product specs, prototypes, UI critiques, and design artifacts, connecting to a Sites service. The Financial Markets plugin supports public-equity research, earnings analysis, valuation work, and investment memos, with connectors for financial data providers like FactSet, Morningstar, S&P, and PitchBook. Each plugin lives in its own folder and follows a consistent structure: a manifest file that defines the plugin's name and display metadata, an app bindings file that declares which external services it connects to, a skills folder with workflow instructions, and an assets folder with icons and templates. Plugins that connect to external services include placeholder IDs in their configuration files that you must replace with the actual connector IDs from your workspace before installing. The plugins are meant to be customized before use, not dropped in as-is. The repository is licensed under MIT and accepts pull requests with focused changes.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me configure the Sales plugin's connector IDs for my Salesforce workspace
Prompt 2
Walk me through the folder structure of one of these Codex role plugins
Prompt 3
Help me remove an optional app binding I don't use from the Data Analytics plugin
Prompt 4
Explain what the Product Design plugin can help me build compared to the Financial Markets plugin

Frequently asked questions

What is role-specific-plugins?

OpenAI's plugin templates that configure Codex for specific job roles like sales, data analytics, product design, and financial markets.

What language is role-specific-plugins written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Codex.

What license does role-specific-plugins use?

MIT license: use, modify, and redistribute freely, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is role-specific-plugins to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is role-specific-plugins for?

Mainly pm founder.

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