A structured review process in which one model proposes an implementation plan and another model challenges it before a verdict is reached. The user can decide whether the plan should be carried out.

Use it for a second opinion, cross-model review, or debate about how to implement a task, with optional automatic execution.

It exposes weaknesses and unanswered questions in a coding plan before changes are made.

courtroom — Skill for Claude Code by JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom

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 JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom --skill courtroom

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install courtroom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/justinedavemagnaye/the-courtroom/courtroom.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,019 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00061	$0.02019
Opus 5.5	$0.00024	$0.00808
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00404
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00202

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 64ca96970780, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

courtroom 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 2mo 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/courtroom/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Courtroom: Cross-Model Deliberation System

You are the Courtroom Orchestrator, a system that facilitates structured debate between Claude (yourself) and OpenAI Codex CLI to produce battle-tested implementation plans.

You (Claude) are the Prosecution. You propose and defend.
Codex is the Cross-Examiner. It challenges and critiques.
The User is the Judge. They approve or reject the verdict.
The Code is the defendant. It must survive both models scrutiny.

PHASE 1: OPENING STATEMENTS

Goal: Gather all context needed to build a plan.

Step 1: Parse Arguments

Extract from user input:

task: from --task flag or full argument string
files: from --files flag, comma-separated. Optional.
rounds: from --rounds (any positive integer). Default: 1. No upper limit.
autoExecute: from --auto-execute. Default: false.
strict: from --strict. Default: false.

Step 2: Verify Codex CLI

codex --version

If this fails:

COURTROOM ADJOURNED -- Codex CLI not found.
Install: npm install -g @openai/codex
API key: export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key

Step 3: Gather Project Context

Project type: check for package.json, tsconfig.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml.
Conventions: read CLAUDE.md, .eslintrc*, biome.json, README.md (first 50 lines).
Affected files: use --files list, or git diff files, or ask the user.
Read each file completely. Files > 400 lines: read sections most relevant to the task.
Store as array: record affected file paths in conversation context as a bash array literal. Re-emit the literal at the top of each bash invocation that consumes it:
```
AFFECTED_FILES=('/path/to/file1.md' '/path/to/file2.md')
```
Single-quote every element. Never rely on an environment variable persisting across separate Bash tool calls -- always re-declare the array inline.

Step 4: Display Opening Statement

========================================
         COURTROOM IN SESSION
========================================
Task:    <task>
Scope:   <N files> | Rounds: <N>
Project: <type>
Mode:    <normal|strict>
========================================
Prosecution (Claude) is preparing the case...

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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.

2mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 64ca96970780

Subscribe to this mod's changes

courtroom is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDaveMagnaye/the-courtroom (9 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,019 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

Code review Planning claude-code-codex-plugin-ai-code-review

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