pi-ask-codex

pi-ask-codex is a command for Claude Code from tznthou/claude-prism. It costs 15 tokens per session (717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for sending a question to the Codex command-line tool and returning its answer alongside Claude’s. Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent and command-line interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to forward a user’s question to Codex, optionally adding relevant repository context. It is intended for one-shot questions and requires synchronous execution under the stated timeout rules.
Why use it?
It lets a user get another coding-agent perspective on a question, including relevant project files when the question concerns code. The instructions also define how the command should be run reliably.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to forward a user’s question to Codex, optionally adding relevant repository context. It is intended for one-shot questions and requires synchronous execution under the stated timeout rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tznthou/claude-prism/pi-ask-codex
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tznthou/claude-prism

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 717 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 $0.00015 $0.00717
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash f402ef5c3203, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pi-ask-codex 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 8d 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/pi-ask-codex.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Codex

Forward the user's question to Codex CLI, get OpenAI's perspective.

Execution

Bash invocation rules (v0.12.3+): Call call-codex.sh / call-gemini.sh in foreground synchronous mode with timeout: 600000 (Bash tool's 10-minute ceiling). Do not use &, do not set run_in_background: true, do not use nohup — Claude Code 2026-04+ has an auto-background child-lifecycle regression that silently kills the process (output file stays 0 bytes). Use run_in_background: true + BashOutput polling only as an exception when the call is genuinely expected to exceed 10 minutes.

1. Build the prompt

Use $ARGUMENTS as the prompt. If the question involves project code, read relevant files with the Read tool and append them.

2. Call Codex

Wrap the question in the one-shot framing below (the framing prefix is fixed; $ARGUMENTS is the user's question verbatim):

CLAUDE_PRISM_TIMEOUT=300 CLAUDE_PRISM_CALLER=pi-ask-codex ~/.claude/scripts/call-codex.sh "You get exactly one turn: do not ask clarifying questions. If context is missing, state your assumptions and answer anyway. Lead with your answer, then reasoning. Be concise by default — expand only where the question demands depth.

Question:
$ARGUMENTS"

If code context is needed, pipe it via stdin (avoids ARG_MAX limits):

echo "Relevant code:
$(code content)" | CLAUDE_PRISM_TIMEOUT=300 CLAUDE_PRISM_CALLER=pi-ask-codex ~/.claude/scripts/call-codex.sh "You get exactly one turn: do not ask clarifying questions. If context is missing, state your assumptions and answer anyway. Lead with your answer, then reasoning. Be concise by default — expand only where the question demands depth.

Question:
$ARGUMENTS"

3. Handle failures

If Codex fails (script exits non-zero or CLI not found):

  • Claude answers the question directly.
  • Include the specific failure reason from stderr (the script classifies errors as TIMEOUT, RATE_LIMIT, AUTH_ERROR, SANDBOX, NETWORK, CLI_ERROR, or CLI_NOT_FOUND).
  • Note in output: "⚠️ Codex unavailable ([reason]) — answering with Claude only. For multi-provider perspectives, try /pi-askall."

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 8d ago First seen · 58 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A f402ef5c3203

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pi-ask-codex is a command published in the GitHub repository tznthou/claude-prism (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 717 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.