codex

A skill that delegates coding work to the OpenAI Codex command-line agent, a tool that performs software tasks from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature work, refactoring, pull-request reviews, and fixing multiple issues in a Git repository.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to hand off coding, refactoring, review, or batch-fix work when the required command-line setup is available.

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/graniet/kheish/codex
Any agent
npx skills add graniet/kheish --skill codex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graniet/kheish

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5ac3fc7708b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to codex — 65 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/autonomous-ai-agents/codex/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


description: Delegate coding tasks to OpenAI Codex CLI agent. Use for building features, refactoring, PR reviews, and batch issue fixing. Requires the codex CLI and a git repository. version: 1.0.0 license: MIT metadata: catalog: tags: - Coding-Agent - Codex - OpenAI - Code-Review - Refactoring related_skills: - claude-code ---

Kheish Compatibility

This skill is repo-local and stays inactive until explicitly activated.

When the original instructions refer to legacy tool names, use these Kheish mappings:

  • terminal => bash
  • web_extract => web_fetch, plus web_search when discovery is needed
  • search_files => grep_search and glob_search
  • browser_* tools require a browser-capable surfaced tool or MCP; if none is available, use the closest available surface and say so explicitly

When the instructions mention local helper files, resolve them from ${KHEISH_SKILL_DIR}.

Codex CLI

Delegate coding tasks to Codex via the Kheish terminal. Codex is OpenAI's autonomous coding agent CLI.

Prerequisites

  • Codex installed: npm install -g @openai/codex
  • OpenAI API key configured
  • Must run inside a git repository — Codex refuses to run outside one
  • Use pty=true in terminal calls — Codex is an interactive terminal app

One-Shot Tasks

terminal(command="codex exec 'Add dark mode toggle to settings'", workdir="~/project", pty=true)

For scratch work (Codex needs a git repo):

terminal(command="cd $(mktemp -d) && git init && codex exec 'Build a snake game in Python'", pty=true)

Background Mode (Long Tasks)

# Start in background
bash(command="codex exec --full-auto 'Refactor the auth module'", workdir="~/project", background=true)
# Returns one task id

# Monitor progress
task_list()
task_output(task_id="<id>")

# Kill if needed
task_stop(task_id="<id>")

Key Flags

Flag Effect
exec "prompt" One-shot execution, exits when done
--full-auto Sandboxed but auto-approves file changes in workspace
--yolo No sandbox, no approvals (fastest, most dangerous)

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 2d ago First seen · 130 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5ac3fc7708b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex is a skill published in the GitHub repository graniet/kheish (227 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,190 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to codex, differing in 65 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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