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Make Codex yours.

Turn an image into a readable Codex skin. Adjust the layout, preview the result, and export a local recipe. Your image stays in the browser.

Open Studio ↗How it works
Local image processingData-only recipesReview-first install
Codex · Rose Orbit01 / 12
A soft pink portrait layout with calm contrast and a glassy workspace.A playful crimson skin built around a bold good-fortune motif.A clean coral science-fiction scene that keeps code and tasks legible.An airy portrait treatment with quiet surfaces and low visual noise.A bright illustrated workspace for high-energy creative sessions.A dark purple portrait skin with luminous controls and focused panels.A cyan-tinted character concept with crisp dark-mode readability.A black-and-gold stage concept that turns the workspace into a poster.A dramatic black-and-gold fan concept with a poster-like Codex workspace.A satirical propaganda-poster treatment with a strong red navigation rail.A soft pink companion concept with a clear task rail and spacious composer.A playful strawberry portrait concept built around warmth and comic contrast.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a romantic sci-fi dawn palette: sidebar, prompt, action chips and a polaroid overlay. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a dreamy starlit romance palette. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI echoing an open-world adventure at dawn. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a mystical starry-night adventure palette. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI inspired by a turquoise virtual singer. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a fiery ninja-hero mood. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a cool, electric rival-ninja mood. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI echoing a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world. Fan art, not affiliated.A fully-rendered fan-concept Codex UI with a flowing, tidal sci-fi atmosphere. Fan art, not affiliated.

Portrait

Rose Orbit
Warm, light and personal

12full-frame concepts

0private image uploads

LOCALlocal guides

Downloadable Codex tutorials

Short guides for the parts that matter.

Learn the workflow, check image rights, and start from a recipe you can inspect. Everything runs locally.

Guide

Skin Quickstart

A concise bilingual path from rights check to readable export and restore.

  • English and Chinese walkthroughs
  • Artwork-rights checklist
  • Native theme example
  • Install safety checklist
Open Studio
Guide

Recipe checklist

A short review path for image rights, contrast, export and restore.

  • Readable color checks
  • Image-rights checklist
  • Install and restore notes
  • No executable code
Open Studio

The Studio exports a data-only recipe in your browser. No uploaded image, executable code, API key or provider credential is bundled.

How Dream Skin really works

From image to Codex skin.

Build the recipe in your browser. Apply it with the local engine.

01

Choose and frame

Use a wide, rights-cleared image and keep high-detail subjects away from the reading column.

02

Tune real surfaces

Preview Home, Task and Diff while adjusting position, dim, blur, panel opacity and readable colors.

03

Export a reviewable recipe

Build a six-file, data-only archive with hashes. It is an unsigned local recipe—not an executable installer.

04

Install, verify, restore

Use the upstream platform entry, test native controls and practice the documented restore path.

Browser studioData recipeReviewed engineOfficial Codex UI

Install and restore

One goal, different platform capabilities.

The browser Studio prepares a recipe. The reviewed engine applies it locally, with a restore path when you are done.

No engine

Native appearance

Use Codex Settings for base theme, accent, background, foreground and fonts. Background images are not part of this mode.

  • →No CDP session
  • →Shareable color theme
  • →Stock recovery is immediate
macOS

Dream Skin Studio

The upstream macOS flow validates the official app, installs to a stable user path and supports Finder-based image customization.

  • →Install and customize
  • →Start, verify and restore
  • →PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP
Windows

Dream Skin scripts

The upstream Windows flow supports install, start, screenshot verification and restore. User-image customization is not yet at macOS parity.

  • →Install and start
  • →Verify and restore
  • →No false one-click recipe claim
Open the Studio, make a skinRead the illustrated install guide

Privacy by construction

Your image does not need a server round trip.

Upload, decode, palette extraction, preview, image encoding and recipe export happen in your browser. We do not read Codex conversations, prompts or files.

Read the safety model

Local pipeline

Your imageYour browserYour local export

FAQ

Straight answers.

Does CodexSkins upload my image?+

No. The Studio reads, tunes and exports the image in your browser. CodexSkins does not receive your private artwork.

Can the exported recipe install itself?+

No. It is an unsigned, ZIP-compatible review artifact. The upstream Dream Skin engine has its own platform install, customization, verification and restore flow.

What does the exported recipe contain?+

A background image and a theme.json file. It is a reviewable data archive, not an installer.

Why keep skills separate from themes?+

A skill can change how Codex approaches work, while a skin should only change appearance. Combining them would hide a behavioral permission behind a decorative one.

What is inside the downloads?+

The macOS download contains the reviewed local engine. The Studio recipe itself contains only an image and theme.json.

Start with one image

Start with one image.

Preview a readable skin, export the recipe, and restore the native look whenever you need to.

Start in the studioSee the safety boundary