codex-host: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

codex-host CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from BytePioneer-AI/codex-host. It costs 3 tokens per session, scanned A, original, LGPL-3.0.

Project instructions for codex-host, a TypeScript application that lets other coding-agent systems run inside the Codex Desktop interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying the desktop integration, protocol proxy, agent-harness integrations, streaming and tool states, approvals, questions, or related project documentation.
Why use it?
They give an agent the project’s purpose, architecture, commands, package relationships, and terminology needed to make consistent changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is BytePioneer-AI/codex-host's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on codex-host itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything codex-host configures →

About the project

CodexHost is a desktop application that lets users run coding-agent harnesses such as Pi and Claude Code inside Codex Desktop. It is for people who want to choose among multiple agents and have them delegate tasks to one another while staying in one workspace.

BytePioneer-AI/codex-host · 2,982 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to BytePioneer-AI/codex-host. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BytePioneer-AI/codex-host/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BytePioneer-AI/codex-host

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00003 $0.00003
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00000

Measured 13d ago against content hash a54ff182c7e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-host CLAUDE.md 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 13d 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.

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The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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.

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  2. 28d ago Changed · +2 lines · +53 tokens per session af02751aee01
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +1 tokens per session f0b0c33316c3
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -89 lines · -1,203 tokens per session 47ac5f94a6d6
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 2,283 tokens per session scan A 9d59094274a5

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codex-host CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BytePioneer-AI/codex-host (2,982 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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