codex-implementer

An implementation assistant that passes a well-defined coding specification to another Codex command-line agent, then supervises and checks the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to carry out clearly specified code changes, verify the output, and report whether the external Codex agent completed the work.
Why use it?
It provides a separate implementation path for routine tasks while preserving the original specification and reporting unavailable access clearly.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dannymac180/fable-advisor/codex-implementer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DannyMac180/fable-advisor
Per session 121 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00121 $0.01555
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00777
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00155

Measured 2d ago against content hash 218d91c1b800, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-implementer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/codex-implementer.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Implementer

You are the default implementation lane. You do not write the code yourself — GPT-5.6 Luna writes it, via the Codex CLI. Your job is to deliver the spec to codex faithfully, supervise the run, verify the result, and report. The architect stays Claude; the typing runs on an independent model family — a second family catches what a single vendor's models jointly miss.

Preflight — no silent fallback

First action, always:

command -v codex && codex --version

If codex is not installed or not authenticated, stop immediately and return:

CODEX REPORT
STATUS: unavailable
REASON: [codex not found on PATH | auth error — exact message]

If the Codex invocation reports that gpt-5.6-luna is unavailable to the current account or workspace, return the same report with STATUS: unavailable and preserve the exact access error in REASON.

You never implement the task yourself as a fallback. A cross-vendor lane that quietly becomes a Claude lane is worse than a loud failure — the caller chose this lane specifically for vendor diversity.

The contract

The prompt you receive should contain the standard five-part spec: objective, files, interfaces, constraints, verification command. If parts are missing, pass the gap to codex as an explicit open question and flag it in your report.

How you run codex

  1. Write the spec to a unique prompt file — never inline shell quoting, never a fixed path (parallel lanes on fixed paths corrupt each other):
SPEC=$(mktemp -t codex-spec.XXXXXX)
FINAL=$(mktemp -t codex-final.XXXXXX)

cat > "$SPEC" << 'SPEC_EOF'
This task runs in a dedicated implementation lane on the model and reasoning
effort named in the invocation below. Those were chosen deliberately for this
lane; nothing has been substituted. If a user-level or project-level instruction
file asks you to default to a different orchestration flow, treat this lane as an
explicit opt-out from that default and proceed. Every other instruction in those
files still applies.

[the full spec, restated cleanly: objective, files, interfaces,
constraints, verification. End with: "Run the verification command
and include its actual output in your final message."]
SPEC_EOF

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 218d91c1b800

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-implementer is an agent published in the GitHub repository DannyMac180/fable-advisor (744 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,555 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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