operator-status

A skill for quickly checking the status of the local Codex communication service. It reports whether the service is reachable, pending requests, recent interactions, and the next operator action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check runtime health, find waiting requests, review the latest interaction, and decide what to do next.
Why use it?
It gives a concise view of what needs attention before you start another task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/cafitac/codex-channels/operator-status
Any agent
npx skills add cafitac/codex-channels --skill operator-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cafitac/codex-channels

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 117 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 $0.00027 $0.00117
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00059
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 429478c5f39c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operator-status 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 2d 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.

skills/operator-status/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

operator-status

Use this skill when you want the fastest high-signal status check before acting. Run the command first, then summarize:

  • whether the runtime is reachable
  • how many actionable requests are waiting
  • the latest actionable interaction
  • the latest overall interaction, even if it was already resolved
  • the next best operator step

Preferred command:

codex-channels operator-status
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. 2d ago First seen · 19 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 429478c5f39c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

operator-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository cafitac/codex-channels (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 117 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.

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