consult-gpt

consult-gpt is a command for coding agents from askwigconsulting/cohort. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,033 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that asks ChatGPT, through the OpenAI Codex command-line tool, for an independent opinion on a difficult problem. It is read-only and advisory, so a human still decides what to do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to cross-check a hard technical decision or diagnosis, especially when an independent review could reveal a missed issue.
Why use it?
It provides a second perspective on design choices, bugs, or plans without executing the advice blindly. It also checks whether the command-line tool is available before using it.

Command

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 commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-gpt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/askwigconsulting/cohort

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,033 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 $0.00038 $0.01033
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 5d ago against content hash 21f618556605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult-gpt 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 5d 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.

canonical/commands/consult-gpt.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bring a second model into the room. /consult-gpt asks ChatGPT (through the OpenAI Codex CLI running in a read-only sandbox) for an independent opinion on a hard problem — a design choice, a tricky bug, a plan worth cross-examining. ChatGPT joins the office on the office's terms: advisory only. It recommends; Claude weighs; the human decides.

1. Preflight — degrade gracefully

Check availability before promising anything:

codex login status

If the CLI is missing or not logged in, do not fail hard: say the consult is unavailable, print the exact recovery steps (npm install -g --prefix ~/.local @openai/codex, then codex login), answer from your own analysis, and clearly label the answer as single-model.

Setup missing and model unavailable are different failures. If the CLI is set up but the flagship model itself is unavailable — usage limits reached, model errors that survive one retry — do not silently proceed and do not downgrade to a cheaper GPT. Ask the user how to proceed: wait and retry when the model is available again, or have Fable handle it single-model (labeled as such). The user picks; on "wait", agree a concrete retry point rather than blocking indefinitely.

2. Egress — allowed by default, opt-out per repo

A consult sends the question and any packaged context to OpenAI — external egress. Sharing code with the consulted model is allowed by default: a second model with real context produces better opinions, so do not ask permission before a consult. The exception is a repo that has opted out — if .cohort/project_context.md records an egress restriction (client code, NDA, unreleased work), honor it absolutely and consult only with fully abstracted questions or not at all. Never include secrets, credentials, or .env contents in a consult prompt under any policy.

3. Ask — package for disagreement

Run the consult with the sandbox pinned read-only — never workspace-write, never any danger flag:

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 5d ago First seen · 94 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 21f618556605

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consult-gpt is a command published in the GitHub repository askwigconsulting/cohort (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,033 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.