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 two things in a single install:
- The Appwrite Docs MCP server: No credentials required. Codex can search the Appwrite documentation as it works, instead of relying on whatever it was trained on.
- 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
Add the Appwrite marketplace to Codex by running the following command in your terminal:
Bashcodex plugin marketplace add appwrite/codex-pluginStart Codex by running
codex.Open the plugins menu with
/plugins.Select Appwrite from the marketplace listing and confirm the install.
The skills and the appwrite-docs MCP server are wired up automatically.
Why the API MCP server isn't bundled
The Appwrite API MCP server needs three values to talk to your project: your endpoint, project ID, and API key. Codex plugins don't currently expose a way to prompt for and inject per-install configuration like that in the CLI, so shipping the API MCP inside the plugin would mean hard-coding credentials, which isn't something we want to do. The docs MCP, which doesn't need credentials, is bundled.
To add the API MCP server, run this in your terminal:
codex mcp add appwrite-api \
--env APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id \
--env APPWRITE_API_KEY=your-api-key \
--env APPWRITE_ENDPOINT=https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1 \
-- uvx mcp-server-appwrite
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.
