A visual Dock for Codex plugins: making @ mentions easier to remember

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with Codex 5.5, and the experience has been genuinely impressive.

One small friction I kept running into: after installing many plugins and skills, I often forgot what I had available when I wanted to use @ mentions. The plugins were powerful, but they were easy to lose track of in the flow of work.

So I started building a small local companion: a visual Dock for Codex plugins. The idea is simple:

  • see installed plugins visually
  • hover and scan them quickly
  • copy a plugin name or starter prompt
  • keep working without digging through memory or lists

The demo video was also shaped with Codex 5.5. GPT’s video model wasn’t working for me, so Codex generated a demo-video.html that communicated about 80–90% of the motion and product idea, which still saved me a lot of time.

One limitation: this cannot integrate directly into the Codex composer yet, because I don’t have access to that layer. So for now it works as a local companion rather than a native composer extension.

I’ll upload the project to GitHub in about a day after cleaning up the repo and writing a simple setup guide.

I’d love to hear what people think. Your voice matters, and I hope we can keep making the Codex ecosystem better together.

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