Yeah, that means that the body of that file will not be injected into the context on startup.
I had thought that once the skill is selected the whole file would be read, but it looks like that's not the case: https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/ad7b9d63c326d5c92049abd...
1) After deciding to use a skill, open its `SKILL.md`. Read only enough to follow the workflow.
So you could have a skill file that's thousands of lines long but if the first part of the file provides an outline Codex may stop reading at that point. Maybe you could have a skill that says "see migrations section further down if you need to alter the database table schema" or similar.Can models actually stream the file in as they see fit, or is "read only enough" just an attention trick? I suspect the latter.
Knowing Codex, I wonder if it might just search for text in the skill file and read around matches, instead of always reading a bit from the top first.