codex-template-activation

codex-template-activation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg. It costs 75 tokens per session (355 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-local activation guide for using a completed John template in Codex, including its agents, marketplace listing, hooks, and project settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after applying or merging a John template to activate it for one project, verify the installed agents, update local settings, trust its hooks, and restart Codex.
Why use it?
It prevents a template from being only installed on disk while the project still runs the wrong guidance or duplicate hooks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the john plugin — 28 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after applying or merging a John template to activate it for one project, verify the installed agents, update local settings, trust its hooks, and restart Codex.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg/codex-template-activation
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 kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg --skill codex-template-activation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install john, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 355 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 $0.00075 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2cf61eec8b77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-template-activation 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.

plugins/joharnessburg/skills/codex-template-activation/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Codex template activation

Keep Claude's apply.sh and claude --plugin-dir flow unchanged. Activate its merged result for Codex through project-local state:

python3 "<john-plugin>/scripts/activate_codex_template.py" \
  --merged-plugin "<applied-plugin-path>" \
  --project-root "<user-project>"

Read the JSON response. Report the installed/skipped agent names and reproduce every instruction exactly. The script materializes the plugin under .john-codex/plugins/<template>/, merges .agents/plugins/marketplace.json, and adds .john-codex/ to the repository-local Git exclude when possible.

The printed handoff verifies the installed listing, disables vanilla John for this project, enables the applied listing, reviews and trusts its current hook definition through /hooks, and restarts Codex. Treat all five as required; installation alone neither enables the correct project state nor trusts hooks.

Do not edit a personal marketplace or global enablement automatically. Explain that applied John replaces vanilla John for this project session; enabling both creates duplicate hooks and ambiguous methodology.

Use --force only to rebuild a directory carrying John's activation marker. The script rejects traversal, symlinks, and unmarked destinations, and restores the prior activation and marketplace if publication fails.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 2cf61eec8b77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-template-activation is a skill published in the GitHub repository kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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