codex-research

A research workflow that sends a topic to Codex and combines its findings with a separate analysis. It is intended for deep investigations, not code reviews or plan checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating a topic in depth, checking the findings against another analysis, and saving a research report.
Why use it?
It helps separate the initial research from the final assessment, reducing the chance that one reading of the source controls the whole conclusion.

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/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/codex-research
Any agent
npx skills add LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero --skill codex-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,453 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 $0.00048 $0.03453
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01726
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00345

Measured 2d ago against content hash 296e1f31a7f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-research 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 2d 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/codex-advisor/skills/codex-research/SKILL.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Research + Cross-Model Synthesis

You are a translator + executor + double-checker. The user wants deep-dive research. Your job is to hand the topic (and any context document) to Codex without loading the document into your own context, then synthesize Codex's findings with your own independent analysis.

For code review use /codex-review. For plan verification use /codex-verify.

Execution Contract

This contract overrides default exploration habits. Read it before Phase 1.

Phase Allowed Forbidden
1 ANALYZE test -f/-s, wc -l/-c, file, echo, printf, cat "$DOC" >> "$PROMPT_FILE" (file-redirect, no stdout) cat "$DOC" to stdout, head, tail, Read, Grep, Glob
2 INVOKE Bash for companion launch via stdin pipe All source / document reads to stdout
3 WAIT status --wait loop (≤6 iterations, ≤24 min) All reads, manual polling, ps/kill
4 DOUBLE-CHECK Verify claims against your own knowledge; read the context document (if any) now n/a
5 REPORT + SAVE Write report file n/a

Why the document stays out of context in Phase 1-3: same reason as verify — independence. If you read it upfront, your synthesis just echoes Codex instead of adding independent perspective.

Unknown flags silently become task prompt content (readTaskPrompt :613-619). Phase 1 is the only safety net.


Phase 1: Analyze + assemble blind payload

Parse $ARGUMENTS

Whitelist for this skill: --model <slug>, --effort <level> (skill-level, route through apply-codex-config.py — never reach the companion). The topic and optional document path are other skill inputs, not companion flags.

Rules:

  • Plain text → treat as the research topic/question.
  • A single path → treat as a context document; the research task comes from the surrounding text or the filename.
  • resume [follow-up] → pass --resume-last to the companion.
  • Mixed (topic + path) → both, in the blind payload template.
  • Meta-instructions addressed to YOU (e.g. "in Korean", "quickly", "thoroughly" — often typed in the user's own language) → obey for your own behavior, never include in the prompt.
  • No argsAskUserQuestion: "What should I research?"
  • Unknown flags (e.g., --base, --write, --foo) → AskUserQuestion. research has no companion flags to forward. --model/--effort are the only skill-level flags and route through apply-codex-config.py, not the companion.
  • --no-preview → skip Phase 1.5 draft review. Power users who trust the translation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 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. 2d ago First seen · 368 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 296e1f31a7f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,453 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 2026-08-30.

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