codex-cli-agent

A wrapper for running the OpenAI Codex command-line coding agent without an interactive terminal. It can run Codex in a repository with read-only or file-writing access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for automated code reviews, repository tasks, Codex subagents, agent profiles, and sending one task to many inputs from a CSV file.
Why use it?
It makes repeatable Codex runs easier to start, configure, save, and automate, while letting you control whether the agent may change files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-cli-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

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/iml1s/agent-cli-skills/codex-cli-agent
Any agent
npx skills add ImL1s/agent-cli-skills --skill codex-cli-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ImL1s/agent-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-cli-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 661 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 $0.00090 $0.00661
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5b51a78b632c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-cli-agent 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 4 executable files (codex-exec.sh, lib/common.sh, lib/parse_stream_json.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.

skills/codex-cli-agent/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Codex CLI (codex exec) Executor

When to use

  • User wants Codex / codex exec as the coding agent
  • Need Codex subagents, agent TOML profiles, or CSV fan-out
  • Sandboxed writes (-s workspace-write) vs strict read-only reviews (-r)

Wrapper

./codex-exec.sh -C /path/to/repo -s workspace-write "Implement X. NO git."
./codex-exec.sh -r -C /path/to/repo "Review for bugs"          # sandbox read-only
./codex-exec.sh -T -C /path/to/repo "Parallelize with subagents"
./codex-exec.sh -j -o /tmp/last.txt -f /tmp/bundle.txt
./codex-exec.sh --enable some_feature -m <model> "…"

Flags: -m · -t · -C · -s read-only|workspace-write|danger-full-access · -o last-message file · -f · -j/--json · -r · -T · --skip-git-repo-check (default on) · --require-git-repo · --ephemeral · --add-dir · --image · --enable · --profile · --no-git · -- passthrough.

-C is absolutized before use (avoids nested relative cwd).

Sandbox vs writing answer files

If the prompt must write a file under the workspace, do not use -r / read-only. That fails with writing is blocked by read-only sandbox after the model finishes reasoning. Use -s workspace-write and instruct “only write the designated path”, or capture stdout.

Native multi-agent

  • Subagents (parallel spawn + synthesize); custom roles in ~/.codex/agents/*.toml or .codex/agents/
  • Experimental batch: spawn_agents_on_csv (one worker per CSV row)
  • Feature flags: codex features list|enable|disable
  • -T asks Codex to prefer subagents / CSV fan-out when useful

Models

Do not hard-code a stale model table. Discover via your Codex build / account docs. Pin with -m when automation requires stability.

Discipline

Always --skip-git-repo-check outside git repos. Exit code untrusted. Orchestrator owns git.

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 5b51a78b632c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-cli-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ImL1s/agent-cli-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 661 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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