read-codex-history

read-codex-history is a skill for Claude Code from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (6,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only tool for searching and exporting local OpenAI Codex session history. It distinguishes submitted prompts, session metadata, and the complete event timeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for listing sessions, finding exact prompt inputs, verifying a session by its identity, locating its rollout record, searching events, and reconstructing a chronological timeline.
Why use it?
It helps establish what was requested and what happened in an earlier session without continuing that work or changing its project. It also accounts for forks and shortened or compacted conversations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the daymade-claude-code plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for listing sessions, finding exact prompt inputs, verifying a session by its identity, locating its rollout record, searching events, and reconstructing a chronological timeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/read-codex-history
About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,516 stars · on GitHub

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 daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-codex-history
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install daymade-claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,438 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00090 $0.06438
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.02575
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00644

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4b32436779ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-codex-history 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 31 executable files (scripts/_core/__init__.py, scripts/_core/claude.py, scripts/_core/codex.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

daymade-claude-code/read-codex-history/SKILL.md · 464 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 464 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read Codex History

Read Codex evidence only. Do not continue the old task or change its project. If the user wants execution after the read is complete, pass the verified evidence to daymade-claude-code:continue-codex-work.

Find a complete thread ID first

For a pasted UUID prefix or an identity-only request, run this bounded lookup:

python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/find_codex_session.py <UUID-prefix>

Accept only exit 0 with status: unique and identity_verified: true. The command queries matching state-index rows, includes archived/subagent entries, and verifies the unique candidate with the exact rollout locator. It does not export unrelated inventory, read conversation bodies, or probe writer locks. On ambiguity, show the returned candidates and ask for a longer prefix; on unavailable evidence, retain unknown. Return the verified ID and title, then stop. Load the rest of this Skill only for an additional requested result. Read lookup and JSON contracts only for exit handling, programmatic consumption or inventory JSON parsing.

Codex history surfaces

Surface Authority Use
<codex-home>/history.jsonl What the user submitted, keyed by Session ID and internal epoch timestamp Exact recent user-input tables
state_*.sqlite Inventory metadata such as cwd, title, update time, and rollout path Fast listing and candidate discovery
sessions/**/rollout-*.jsonl and archived_sessions/** Full user/assistant/tool/compaction/fork event stream Exact-session evidence and keyword verification after indexed or physical preselection
<codex-home>/logs_*.sqlite (pick the latest by mtime) Runtime events: per-event ts, level, target, feedback_log_body, process_uuid (embeds the OS pid), optional thread_id Which live process is failing and how — error-shape bucketing and time distribution

Do not substitute one surface for another. A prompt-ledger row proves what was submitted, not what the Agent answered. A state DB path is only a candidate until the rollout's session_meta.id matches. A rollout can exist without a prompt-ledger row, and a /fork prompt can exist without a child rollout. A runtime-log thread is not a resumable session until state_*.sqlite confirms it (see below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 464 lines

Files

What ships with it

38 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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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  10. 1mo ago First seen · 261 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 73e82770dee0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read-codex-history is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,516 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 6,438 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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