About the large change in the Codex plugin list
Summary
- With the 2026-09-03 update, the number of listed Codex plugins went from 181 to 64 (127 removed, 10 added).
- This is not a site malfunction. It reflects a cleanup that the official marketplace openai/plugins (GitHub) carried out on Aug 26–28.
- The 127 removed plugins remain visible under "Removed" in the list, on their detail pages, and in the changelog.
Timeline
- The official marketplace started a cleanup: 30 plugins were added (GitHub PR #387), then the same day all "app-backed" integrations without a local MCP configuration (.mcp.json) were removed (GitHub PR #388). Four Microsoft plugins (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook Email/Calendar) were kept as exceptions.
- Nine widely used plugins (Adobe, Lovable, ClickUp, Data Analytics, …) were restored (GitHub PR #390).
- Two CrowdStrike plugins were added as references to external Git repositories (GitHub PR #391). This is a new listing format in which the plugin contents live outside openai/plugins. This site supports it and lists these two as well.
- Reflected on this site: 64 plugins listed (127 removed, 10 added).
How this site handles it
- List: the 127 removed plugins are collapsed under "Removed" (the count shows the 64 active plugins)
- Detail pages: kept, with the removal date
- Changelog: the 2026-09 archive records every addition, removal and update
- Categories: "Scientific Research" added
Sources (primary; links go to the openai/plugins repository on GitHub or to OpenAI's official docs)
- openai/plugins README ("a curated collection of Codex plugin examples")
- PR #387 Add remote plugin marketplace integrations (2026-08-26)
- PR #388 Sync curated plugins and remove app-only integrations (2026-08-26)
- PR #390 Restore missing top-50 curated plugins (2026-08-27)
- PR #391 Add CrowdStrike Foundry and Fusion to curated marketplaces (2026-08-28)
- OpenAI Developers, "Package your plugin" (universal plugin directory)
About this notice — The home-page link is shown until 2026-10-03. This page itself stays online afterwards.