codex-safe-workflow

codex-safe-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KevinBigham/codex-safe-starter. It costs 40 tokens per session (336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-specific workflow guide for Codex Safe Starter, covering setup, portability, safety checks, validation, evaluation, and Git changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for changes to the Codex Safe Starter repository, including running its checks, reviewing installation proposals, and preparing safe Git changes.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent checklist for making and verifying changes while keeping project-specific decisions documented.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/kevinbigham/codex-safe-starter/codex-safe-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add KevinBigham/codex-safe-starter --skill codex-safe-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KevinBigham/codex-safe-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 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 $0.00040 $0.00336
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash 23d5fc7e22dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-safe-workflow 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 3d 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/codex-safe-workflow/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Codex Safe Workflow

Use this skill for changes to the Codex Safe Starter repo. It is the canonical repo-scoped skill and should stay under .agents/skills/codex-safe-workflow/.

  1. Read AGENTS.md and docs/codex/repo_map.md.
  2. Plan non-trivial edits with objective, scope, files, verification, risks, and rollback.
  3. Keep changes project-local unless the maintainer explicitly approves a global change.
  4. Do not install tools by default. Stage install proposals in codex-upgrade/SECURITY_REVIEW.md.
  5. Run:
    • node scripts/secret-scan.mjs
    • node scripts/selftest.mjs
    • node scripts/doctor.mjs --ci
    • node scripts/smoke.mjs
    • node codex-upgrade/benchmarks/run-smoke.mjs --final
  6. Before commit, stage only intended files and run node scripts/secret-scan.mjs --staged.
  7. Update PORTABILITY_REPORT.md and CODEX_STACK_REPORT.md when portability, validation, Git, agent, skill, or install decisions change.
  8. Keep MCP, hooks, rules, plugins, and permission-profile migrations staged in docs unless the maintainer explicitly approves activating them.

For the detailed checklist, read references/workflow-checklist.md.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 23d5fc7e22dd

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codex-safe-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository KevinBigham/codex-safe-starter (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 336 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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