Catalyst is now Codex Ready

New Catalyst Codex plugin for agent-driven development

What can you do with the Catalyst Codex plugin?

Catalyst provides you with all the required tools to build apps and solutions. In the same vein, the Codex plugin provides you with the right tools to leverage AI and accelerate your application building lifecycle.

The plugin ensures that Codex has access to a skill file that provides absolute context to GPT models on the capabilities of the Catalyst platform and its services.

Together, the skill file and the pre-defined Catalyst MCP server equip Codex with the context it needs to help you architect, code, and deploy applications on the Catalyst platform from your preferred AI-compatible IDE.

How Catalyst's Codex plugin simplifies developer workflows?

This plugin helps Codex understand and use Catalyst capabilities from your prompts.

1. Automation: Set up scheduled jobs, event triggers, and workflow automations conversationally.
2. Deployment: Push to any environment. The agent manages build configs and release pipelines.
3. App hosting: Deploy and manage front-end apps alongside their back-end services, unified.
4. Serverless functions: Create, configure, and deploy cloud functions without leaving your editor.
5. Storage & DB: Provision databases and object storage. The agent handles schema setup, too.
6. Auth & identity: Configure authentication flows, providers, and access policies via prompts.

One ecosystem. One agent. One workflow.

Building an application often means stitching together hosting, back-end APIs, authentication, storage, databases, and CI/CD across multiple platforms. Every additional service introduces more setup, more context switching, and more opportunities for errors and endless bills.

Catalyst brings all of this into a single cloud platform, while the Catalyst plugin enables your AI coding agent to understand, automate, and deploy using native Catalyst capabilities.

The New Plugin-Powered Workflow: Prompt → Ship

1.  Tell your agent what you want to build.
   Describe your application in natural language.
2. Catalyst Agent Skills provide the expertise.
   Your AI agent uses Catalyst Agent Skills to understand Catalyst services, SDKs, best practices, and deployment patterns, enabling it to generate production-ready code tailored for Catalyst.
3.  The Catalyst MCP Server executes the work.
   The agent securely connects to the Catalyst MCP Server to provision projects, configure services, manage resources, and perform deployment tasks on your behalf.
4. Your application is live.
   With code generated and infrastructure provisioned, your application is deployed to Catalyst and ready for production.

All steps are handled by Codex through the Catalyst plugin, with context gathered from the skill file and Catalyst's MCP server.
Check out our  Catalyst Agent Skills repository on GitHub. You can now quickly install our ready-to-use agent skills and integrate them directly into your projects to accelerate app development workflows

Install the Catalyst Agent Skills via npx 

npx skills add catalystbyzoho/agent-skills

Check out our video series to set up Catalyst Agent Skills and MCP, build amazing AI-powered apps, and deploy them on Catalyst.

Whether you're building AI-assisted deployment flows, back-end automation, or full-stack applications, these reusable skills help you build faster and skip complex setup processes.

Happy coding!