codex-review

codex-review is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review workflow for checking local code changes, branch or commit differences, and pull requests with Codex CLI. It reports problems, validation results, blockers, and evidence about whether changes are ready to merge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a dirty working tree, branch, commit, or pull request and assess merge readiness.
Why use it?
It gives developers an independent check before merging or shipping changes. It also separates confirmed problems from rejected or blocked findings.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to review a dirty working tree, branch, commit, or pull request and assess merge readiness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-skills/codex-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 jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill codex-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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 $0.00057 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 8d ago against content hash 597ea9ad9bb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-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 8d 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.

Skills/agent-ops/codex-review/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Review

Philosophy

Use codex review as advisory closeout evidence, not approval to ship. Verify every finding against source before fixing or rejecting it.

When To Use

  • Codex review, autoreview, second-model review, or merge-readiness evidence.
  • Dirty patch, branch/PR diff, or commit review with P1-P3 triage.
  • Independent review before final response, commit, PR update, or merge.

Avoid validation-only closeout, CodeRabbit inventory, broad PR sweeps, and Harness Engineering readiness reviews when those workflows own the task.

Inputs

  • Repo path, branch, git status, target, base/commit ref, optional validation, and permission posture.

Outputs

Report the review command, target, accepted/rejected/blocked findings, validation result, and final clean result or blocker.

Discovery Interview

  • Ask one round at a time when target, base, commit, validation, or permission boundary is unclear.
  • Use a plain-language question.
  • Explain why this matters before asking the user to choose.
  • Avoid dumping the whole interview plan at once.
  • Read references/discovery-interview.md when underspecified.

Procedure

  1. Pick target:
    • dirty patch: codex review --uncommitted
    • branch/PR diff: codex review --base <base>
    • landed or single commit: codex review --commit <ref>
  2. Prefer the helper: Skills/agent-ops/codex-review/scripts/codex-review.
  3. Verify each finding from source and classify it as accepted, rejected, or blocked.
  4. Patch only verified accepted findings at the smallest ownership boundary.
  5. Rerun focused validation and rerun review after review-triggered code changes.
  6. Stop when the final helper/review run exits 0 with no accepted/actionable findings.
  7. If nested review fails during Codex runtime initialization, rerun the helper once from the active Codex session with the exact filesystem-only retry profile in references/helper-behavior.md. If it still hits app-server, sandbox, approval, or data-disclosure policy, classify blocked_runtime, review the selected diff locally from source, and report the blocked command.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 8d ago First seen · 110 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 597ea9ad9bb5

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codex-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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