# Personal Codex Vault

> A starter monorepo template that gives OpenAI Codex durable shared memory across projects, people, skills, and writing style.

Personal Codex Vault is a GitHub template repository created by Jason Liu (jxnl) that provides a structured workspace for giving OpenAI Codex persistent, durable context. It acts as a shared-memory vault where Codex can look up information before acting and write back important context after user approval. The template was published in June 2026 as an early-stage, actively developed project.

## What It Is

Personal Codex Vault is a monorepo scaffold designed to serve as the long-term memory layer for Codex-powered AI workflows. Rather than starting each Codex session from scratch, users clone this template as `~/vault` and point a Codex project at it. The repo then becomes the canonical store for project notes, collaborator profiles, repo-local skills, and writing-style memory that Codex can read and update over time.

## Repository Structure

The template organizes context into clearly scoped directories:

- **`projects/`** — long-lived active work
- **`experiments/`** — short-lived spikes and proofs of concept
- **`people/`** — notes about collaborators and agents
- **`.codex/skills/`** — repo-local skill definitions Codex can invoke
- **`templates/`** — starter files for new entries
- **`tests/`** — checks for template integrity

## Onboarding Workflow

Setup is designed to be a single command. After cloning the template and creating a Codex project rooted at `~/vault`, users trigger onboarding by running the onboard-me command in a new thread. The onboarding skill then:

- Reads the workspace and asks what projects and people matter
- Checks for missing plugins (Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Browser, and others)
- Offers thread automations for recurring checks, defaulting to 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM check-ins
- Bootstraps a `write-like-me` skill from sent Slack and email writing
- Proactively proposes `people/*.md`, project packets, and `AGENTS.md` updates

Codex is instructed to ask before sending messages, editing shared docs, creating automations, or writing shared memory.

## Built-in Skills

Repo-local skills live under `.codex/skills/` and cover the most common recurring workflows:

- `onboarding` — first-time setup
- `assistant` — ongoing work support after onboarding
- `loop` — recurring checks on a thread
- `new-project` — scaffold a new project or experiment
- `new-person` — create a person note
- `write-like-me-bootstrap` — generate a personal writing-style skill from Slack and email history

## Release And Licensing

The repository reached its initial tagged release at v0.1.1, published on June 15, 2026, the same day the earlier v0.1.0 tag landed, indicating active early-stage development. No license file is present in the repository at this time, so no formal open-source terms are declared.

## Features
- Durable shared memory vault for Codex
- Structured directories for projects, experiments, and people
- Repo-local skills under .codex/skills/
- Automated onboarding via $onboard me command
- Write-like-me skill bootstrapped from Slack and email
- Recurring check-in automations (9 AM and 4 PM defaults)
- Plugin integration support (Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, etc.)
- Chrome extension support via Codex Chrome Extension
- AGENTS.md and people/*.md auto-proposal during onboarding
- Template integrity tests

## Integrations
OpenAI Codex, Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Notion, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Linear, Chrome, Browser

## Platforms
CLI

## Pricing
Free

## Version
v0.1.1

## Links
- Website: https://github.com/jxnl/personal-monorepo-template
- Repository: https://github.com/jxnl/personal-monorepo-template
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/personal-codex-vault