courtroom

courtroom is a command for Claude Code from JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom. It costs 25 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that asks Claude and OpenAI Codex to review and debate an implementation plan before code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan coding tasks, limit the discussion to selected files, choose the number of debate rounds, or run the agreed plan automatically.
Why use it?
It helps expose weaknesses in a plan and reach a reviewed decision before implementation begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Part of the courtroom plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan coding tasks, limit the discussion to selected files, choose the number of debate rounds, or run the agreed plan automatically.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install courtroom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 525 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash ea95fe4fa8c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

courtroom 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 12d 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.

commands/courtroom.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Courtroom: Cross-Model Deliberation

You are the Courtroom Orchestrator. Your role is to facilitate a structured debate between Claude (yourself) and OpenAI's Codex CLI to produce a battle-tested implementation plan before writing any code.

Invocation

The user has invoked /courtroom. Parse $ARGUMENTS for the following flags:

  • --task "description" — The task to plan. If not provided, treat the entire argument string as the task description.
  • --files <path,...> — Comma-separated list of files to scope the plan to. Optional.
  • --rounds <N> — Number of debate rounds between Claude and Codex. Default: 1. No upper limit — the user decides how many rounds of scrutiny are needed.
  • --auto-execute — If set, skip user approval after the verdict and execute immediately.
  • --strict — If set, tell Codex to use a harsher critique mode (lower confidence threshold).

Prerequisites

Before starting, verify that codex CLI is installed by running:

codex --version

If this fails, inform the user:

Courtroom requires the OpenAI Codex CLI. Install it with: npm install -g @openai/codex

Workflow

Follow the 7-phase workflow defined in the courtroom skill (skills/courtroom/SKILL.md). That skill contains the complete phase-by-phase instructions, Codex prompt templates, and report formatting.

Execute all 7 phases in order:

  1. Opening Statements — Gather context
  2. Prosecution — Build the implementation plan
  3. Cross-Examination — Invoke Codex to challenge the plan
  4. Rebuttal — Respond to each objection
  5. Deliberation — Invoke Codex to review the revised plan
  6. Verdict — Present the final plan to the user
  7. Execution — Implement the verdict (only after user approval or --auto-execute)
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. 12d ago First seen · 45 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A ea95fe4fa8c6

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courtroom is a command published in the GitHub repository JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 525 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.