nox-review

nox-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from grimoire-rs/grimoire. It costs 86 tokens per session (3,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that sends a code change or plan to a separate AI reviewer in a temporary Git worktree, with the repository's instruction and hook files removed from that review copy.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adversarial reviews of diffs and plans before they are accepted, especially when an independent review or another AI model is wanted.
Why use it?
It provides a second opinion from a reviewer that did not create the change and reduces the chance that repository instructions influence the review. Its description does not guarantee that the reviewer cannot access its own stored credentials.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit It is for adversarial reviews of diffs and plans before they are accepted, especially when an independent review or another AI model is wanted.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grimoire-rs/grimoire/nox-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 grimoire-rs/grimoire --skill nox-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grimoire-rs/grimoire

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,336 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.
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 $0.00086 $0.03336
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.01334
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00334

Measured 11d ago against content hash e16140c95aba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nox-review 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/nox-review/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nox-review — adversarial review under a second harness

What this does

nox reviews a change under an AI harness other than the one that wrote it. It builds a pair of synthetic commits with every instruction file, hook and agent-config file removed from the tree, checks the target out into an ephemeral git worktree it owns, and spawns the reviewing harness there under a minimal environment. The reviewer sees the change — not the repository's instructions, and not its hooks.

What the minimal environment does and does not withhold. It is an allowlist: everything outside it is dropped, credential-shaped names are dropped on top of that, and nox forwards no credential value of its own. But the allowlist deliberately carries HOME and each harness's own config-directory variables, because that is the only way the reviewing harness authenticates at all — it reaches its own credential store exactly as it does when you run it yourself. "The reviewer cannot reach my secrets" is not a claim this makes.

Writes and network reach are held per harness, and how strongly differs. os is the operating system's, and is established only once nox has probed that the sandbox really holds; harness is the harness's own primitive, visible in the resolved argv; attested is self-declared and never probed — a claim, not evidence. Every run stamps what it established on its containment: line; weigh the findings against that line rather than against a level you assumed.

nox changes nothing in the repository under review. It does append one line per run to a local call log — calls.jsonl under $XDG_STATE_HOME/nox, by default ~/.local/state/nox/ — carrying the timestamp, the harness, the model, the duration, the outcome, the cost and a count of warnings. Never findings, never harness output.

Scopes

--scope code-diff reviews a branch diff against a base (--base <ref>), or the working tree when you pass no --base.

--scope plan-artifact reviews a single file — a plan, an ADR, a spec — named by --path <file>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 11d ago Changed e16140c95aba
  2. 20d ago Changed 7fc7b23bcdf6
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 250 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A ee3c3a3e88c6

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nox-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository grimoire-rs/grimoire (14 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 3,336 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-08.

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