# Rare + Codex: a personal CRM your agent can use

Status: Via your agent

Rare ships skills for OpenAI's Codex. Install them in your Rare folder and Codex can capture interactions, answer questions about the people in your life, and keep summaries current.

- **Setup:** About 5 minutes
- **Needs:** The rarecrm CLI
- **Skills:** Capture and summary
- **Today:** Available through the CLI

## What you get

- A capture skill that files voice notes, notes and transcripts under the right people
- A summary skill that keeps what matters about each person current and sourced
- Plain SQL over your journal with rarecrm query

## How it works today

1. **Install Rare's skills.** In your Rare folder, run rarecrm skill install. It adds Rare's skills to .codex/skills.
2. **Ask Codex.** “Capture this: call with Dana about the Q3 intro…” or “Who haven't I followed up with this month?”
3. **Review the result.** Every change is a commit, so History shows what Codex added and you can undo it.

## Questions

### Do I need to self-host Rare to use this?

Today the skills work against a Rare folder on your computer through the rarecrm CLI. Our MCP server, coming soon, will connect Codex to your hosted Rare directly.

## Related integrations

- [Claude Code](https://rarecrm.ai/integrations/claude-code.md)
- [MCP server](https://rarecrm.ai/integrations/mcp.md)
- [Google Calendar](https://rarecrm.ai/integrations/google-calendar.md)