Introducing the Appwrite plugin for Codex: Skills and MCP in one install_

Codex is OpenAI's terminal-resident coding agent. It reads, writes, and runs code against your project, and it has been steadily picking up the building blocks needed to work well with platforms like Appwrite: skills for language-specific context, MCP servers for live tool and documentation access, and a marketplace for distributing them. Using Codex with Appwrite has worked for a while, but getting set up meant copying skill files into ~/.codex/skills/, hand-editing ~/.codex/config.toml to register the docs MCP, and stitching everything together yourself.

Today, we are announcing the Appwrite plugin for Codex. Add the marketplace, install the plugin, and your agent is ready to build with Appwrite using up-to-date SDK patterns and live access to the Appwrite documentation.

What installing the plugin gives you

The plugin ships skills in a single install. Add the remote MCP server so Codex can call a live project:

• The Appwrite MCP server: One hosted server at https://mcp.appwrite.io (server name: appwrite) for API actions and docs search.
• Thirteen agent skills: Markdown skills covering the Appwrite CLI and every major Appwrite SDK (TypeScript, Dart, .NET, Go, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Swift), plus two guided deployment skills for shipping Appwrite Sites and Functions with the Appwrite CLI. Codex loads the relevant skill on its own when a task calls for it.

Setup the plugin

1. Add the Appwrite marketplace to Codex by running the following command in your terminal:

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   codex plugin marketplace add appwrite/codex-plugin
   

2. Start Codex by running codex.

3. Open the plugins menu with /plugins.

4. Select Appwrite from the marketplace listing and confirm the install.

The skills load automatically. Add the remote MCP server next:

codex mcp add appwrite --url https://mcp.appwrite.io

Cloud uses OAuth against that one hosted server. Do not add separate appwrite-api and appwrite-docs servers.

A prompt to try first

Once the plugin is active, try a prompt like:

Scaffold a Next.js app that uses Appwrite for email/password auth and a "todos" table.

Codex picks up the appwrite-typescript and appwrite-cli skills, queries the Appwrite Docs MCP server when it needs to confirm specifics, and generates code that uses the right SDK calls instead of guessed ones. When you are ready to ship, ask it to deploy with the Appwrite CLI and the appwrite-deploy-site skill kicks in to walk it through the steps.

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