curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/skills?limit=10&order=asc&after=example-after' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# GET /skills (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List Skills

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/skills?limit=10&order=asc&after=example-after' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| limit | query | integer | No | Number of items to retrieve |
| order | query | string | No | Sort order of results by timestamp. Use `asc` for ascending order or `desc` f... |
| after | query | string | No | Identifier for the last item from the previous pagination request |

## Response example
{"object":"list","data":[{}]}

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GET

GET /skills — OpenAI API

OpenAI API key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

List Skills

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/skills?limit=10&order=asc&after=example-after' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
limit	query	integer	No	Number of items to retrieve
order	query	string	No	Sort order of results by timestamp. Use `asc` for ascending order or `desc` for descending order.
after	query	string	No	Identifier for the last item from the previous pagination request

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "object": "skill",
      "name": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "created_at": 0,
      "default_version": "string",
      "latest_version": "string"
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "string",
  "last_id": "string",
  "has_more": true
}

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