codex-cross-review

codex-cross-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from babyworm/rtl-agent-team. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,145 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A review process that asks the Codex command-line tool to independently inspect completed work as a second reviewer. It exchanges findings until the reviewers agree or the issue is escalated.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking completed deliverables before declaring a hardware-development phase finished.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that one reviewer misses an important problem at a project phase boundary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Part of the rtl-agent-team plugin — 47 skills, 99 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for checking completed deliverables before declaring a hardware-development phase finished.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/babyworm/rtl-agent-team/codex-cross-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add babyworm/rtl-agent-team --skill codex-cross-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/babyworm/rtl-agent-team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rtl-agent-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 99 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,145 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00035 $0.01145
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00114

Measured 8d ago against content hash b4f02cdbf0cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

codex-cross-review scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

The skill reads `~/.codex/config.toml` for model and effort settings.
skills/codex-cross-review/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<Use_When>

  • Phase boundary: before declaring any phase (1-6) complete
  • Manual invocation: user wants independent cross-review of current work
  • Quality gate: need a second opinion from a different model family </Use_When>

<Do_Not_Use_When>

  • Codex CLI is not installed (check with codex --version)
  • Work is still in progress (cross-review should happen on completed deliverables)
  • Phase 7 exploration (exempt from pipeline gates) </Do_Not_Use_When>

Prerequisites

  1. Codex CLI installed: codex --version must succeed
  2. OpenAI API key configured: Codex must be authenticated
  3. Phase artifacts exist: the phase being reviewed must have produced deliverables

Configuration

The skill reads ~/.codex/config.toml for model and effort settings. Users configure their preferred model and reasoning effort there — the skill never overrides these.

Display the current config to the user at the start of every invocation:

Codex Config: model={model}, reasoning_effort={effort}

Execution

Phase Auto-Detection

If no phase number is provided, detect the current phase from:

  1. Most recently modified docs/phase-N-*/ directory
  2. Ask user if ambiguous

Spawn Cross-Reviewer Agent

Task(subagent_type="rtl-agent-team:codex-cross-reviewer",
     prompt="Run cross-review for Phase {N}.
             Phase intent: {brief description from phase docs}.
             Target artifacts: {list of docs/code paths}.
             Changed files: {from git diff}.")

Integration Protocol (for Phase Orchestrators)

Phase orchestrators (P1-P6) should invoke cross-review as their penultimate step (before declaring phase complete):

# In orchestrator agent prompt, before final step:
Step N-1: Cross-Review Gate
  Task(subagent_type="rtl-agent-team:codex-cross-reviewer",
       prompt="Cross-review Phase {N}. Artifacts: {paths}.")
  # MANDATORY explicit verdict check:
  Read(".rat/cross-review/phase-{N}/cross-review-report.md")
  # Parse verdict field — must be CONSENSUS or USER_DECIDED
  # If verdict != CONSENSUS and user did not approve → do NOT proceed to completion

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B b4f02cdbf0cf

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codex-cross-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository babyworm/rtl-agent-team (51 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,145 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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