I made a bilingual Codex Plugin for candidate-first industry briefs

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I built a Codex Plugin and two standalone Skills for generating industry briefs.

The workflow is candidate-first. The user inputs an industry, target market, focus topics, exclusions, and final use. Codex generates 20 sourced candidate topics first, waits for the user to select 8, and only then creates the final brief, poster, and channel copy.

The main design goal is editorial control. The Skill should not fabricate links, fill gaps with generic finance news, or turn corporate soft copy into industry insight.

Repos:
Plugin: vchenchen / industry-brief-generator-plugin
Chinese Skill: vchenchen / industry-brief-generator-skill-chinese
English Skill: vchenchen / industry-brief-generator-skill-english

I would love feedback from people using Codex for research, market intelligence, newsletters, or recurring content workflows.

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I built a Codex Skill + Plugin called Industry Brief Generator.

The idea is simple: do not let the agent jump straight from research to a polished final brief.

For industry news and market updates, the hardest part is often not writing. It is story selection:

  • Which items are actually relevant?
  • Which ones are just company soft copy?
  • Which ones are generic finance news?
  • Which sources are current and reliable?
  • When should the agent stop instead of filling the count?

So this workflow uses a candidate-first contract.

Flow:

  1. The user enters industry, target market, focus topics, exclusions, final use case, and preferred language.
  2. The Skill generates 20 sourced candidate topics.
  3. The user selects 8.
  4. Only then does it generate the final brief, poster-style summary, and channel-ready copy.

It currently includes:

  • Chinese Codex Skill
  • English Codex Skill
  • bilingual Codex Plugin
  • reusable YAML industry configs
  • unsupported / low-information industry protocol
  • poster QA checklist
  • candidate-pool and final-brief templates

Trust rules:

  • no fabricated sources
  • no fake dates
  • no filler just to reach the target count
  • no soft copy repackaged as industry news
  • no final brief before explicit user selection

Current traction:

  • 43 GitHub stars
  • 3 forks
  • 250 downloads on WorkBuddy SkillHub

GitHub:
ndustry-brief-generator-plugin

I would love feedback on:

  • the candidate-first contract
  • how to make Skills easier for non-technical users to install
  • whether this pattern should become a reusable template for other research workflows