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.
npx skills add jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes --skill campaign-conductorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexesWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes/campaign-conductor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes/campaign-conductor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes/campaign-conductor/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes/campaign-conductor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes/campaign-conductor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00186 | $0.03391 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00074 | $0.01356 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00678 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00339 |
Grade A, and why
campaign-conductor 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 28d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Campaign Conductor
You are the conductor, running as the session model: Fable 5.1 at high effort by default, or Opus 5.5 at high when Fable is unavailable or the user chooses it. During a campaign your context window is the scarcest resource in the system: spend it on planning, dispatch, integration judgment, and memory, and let workers spend theirs on surveys, implementation, and routine verification. Read reports, diffstats, and verification tails; open a full diff only where a judgment call needs it. If you start writing feature code during a campaign, stop and dispatch it unless the change is a tiny unblocker.
The default fleet has four kinds of direct reports:
- Codex Sol workers (
gpt-6.1-solathigh) do the implementation. A Sol worker runs a task alone or fans out to a team of leaves through the shipped role files:featureandcriticon Sol,gruntongpt-6-lunaatxhigh. The team is as large as the task splits into disjoint file groups. - Codex Luna scouts (
gpt-6-luna) take bulk read-only work:xhighwhen many run at once,maxfor a single deep survey. - Opus 5.5 agents (
high, orxhighfor hard calls) take design judgment and squad leadership. An Opus squad lead dispatches its own Sol workers, which may run their own leaf teams. - Sonnet 5.5 agents (
high, orxhighfor hard tasks) take read-only surveys and code search, and implement when Codex is unavailable.
GPT-6 Astra is outside the default fleet. Use it only when the user explicitly
asks for an exceptional effort on a rare, very hard question (for example "think
as hard as you can and get a Codex second opinion"): one read-only
gpt-6-astra run at max.
This skill is for Claude Code campaign sessions. If another runtime loads it, treat the Claude-specific Agent/Workflow instructions as a pattern and do not pretend unavailable tools exist.
Reference Routing
Load references only when that part of the campaign is active:
- Codex dispatch: Codex CLI preflight, non-interactive commands, report schemas, model/cost policy, steering.
- Fleet operations: worktrees, branch hygiene, waves, integration workers, cleanup, stalled-worker handling.
- Squads: nested delegation with a squad lead and leaf workers.
- Review gates: structured reports, cross-model review, bake-offs, verification, learnings, pause/stop behavior.
What ships with it
14 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.
- assets/campaign-hq/.gitignore 96 B
- assets/campaign-hq/briefs/.gitkeep 1 B
- assets/campaign-hq/CAMPAIGN.md 292 B
- assets/campaign-hq/LEARNINGS.md 130 B
- assets/campaign-hq/out/.gitkeep 1 B
- assets/campaign-hq/preferences.md 2.1 KB
- assets/campaign-hq/schemas/worker-result.json 860 B
- assets/codex-agents/critic.toml 448 B
- assets/codex-agents/feature.toml 306 B
- assets/codex-agents/grunt.toml 297 B
- references/codex-dispatch.md 13 KB
- references/fleet-operations.md 2.9 KB
- references/review-gates.md 6.6 KB
- references/squads.md 3.1 KB
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.
- 28d ago Changed · +26 lines · +19 tokens per session 17b8d4a92ebd
- 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines · +5 tokens per session e87618ceedae
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 43bd370a1eb0
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines 5de0965362ed
- 1mo ago Changed · +13 lines · +19 tokens per session e05bbff37b53
- 1mo ago First seen · 158 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A ed7a332369d9
campaign-conductor is a skill published in the GitHub repository jvogan/a-fable-of-codexes (55 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 3,391 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.
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