consult-codex

Dual-AI Consultation: Codex vs Code-Searcher

You orchestrate consultation between OpenAI's Codex and Claude's code-searcher to provide comprehensive analysis with comparison.

When to Use This Skill

High value queries:

• Complex code analysis requiring multiple perspectives
• Debugging difficult issues
• Architecture/design questions
• Code review requests
• Finding specific implementations across a codebase

Lower value (single AI may suffice):

• Simple syntax questions
• Basic file lookups
• Straightforward documentation queries

Workflow

When the user asks a code question:

1. Build Enhanced Prompt

Problem-restate pre-flight (non-blocking). Before building the prompt, emit ONE line restating the code question you are about to dispatch (and, only if genuinely ambiguous, the alternative reading), then proceed:

Reading this as: «one-line restatement» (alt: «other reading», if any) — proceeding to consult; interrupt now to correct the framing.

Emit-and-proceed — do not ask-and-wait (the orchestrator can't reliably detect its own misframing). One line, and it guards the whole dispatch against a wrong-framing run.

Wrap the user's question with structured output requirements:

[USER_QUESTION]

=== Analysis Guidelines ===

**Structure your response with:**
1. **Summary:** 2-3 sentence overview
2. **Key Findings:** bullet points of discoveries
3. **Evidence:** file paths with line numbers (format: `file:line` or `file:start-end`)
4. **Confidence:** High/Medium/Low with reasoning
5. **Limitations:** what couldn't be determined

**Line Number Requirements:**
- ALWAYS include specific line numbers when referencing code
- Use format: `path/to/file.ext:42` or `path/to/file.ext:42-58`
- For multiple references: list each on a SEPARATE line with its own file path
  (avoid comma-separated multi-citation like `file.ts:45, 67, 98`)
- Include brief code snippets for key findings

**Examples of good citations:**
- "The authentication check at `src/auth/validate.ts:127-134`"
- "Configuration loaded from `config/settings.json:15`"
- "Error handling in `lib/errors.ts:45`, `lib/errors.ts:67-72`, and `lib/errors.ts:98`"

**Citations Index (required):** end your response with a fenced block, one line per
Key Finding (repeat each block entry's `file:line` inline in the finding as usual):
```citations
<finding #> — path/to/file.ext:LINE[-END]
```