codex-setup

A setup helper for the Codex command-line tool, which lets developers use Codex from a terminal. It checks installation, sign-in, the official plugin, and saved settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Codex status, sign in, install or verify the command-line tool and official plugin, and set default model or effort options.
Why use it?
It helps find setup problems before a command fails. It also puts model and reasoning-effort defaults in the Codex configuration file.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00050 $0.01392
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef6c98f1bb51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

codex-setup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat ~/.codex/config.toml 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_CONFIG"
plugins/codex-advisor/skills/codex-setup/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Setup & Configuration

Preflight check and ~/.codex/config.toml configuration helper for codex-advisor.

Mode Selection

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Input Action
--status or no args Run preflight + show current config
--model MODEL Set default model in config.toml
--effort LEVEL Set reasoning effort in config.toml
Combined flags Apply all settings

Preflight Check

Check Codex CLI

which codex >/dev/null 2>&1 && codex --version || echo "NOT_INSTALLED"

If NOT_INSTALLED: "Codex CLI is not installed. Install: npm install -g @openai/codex"

Check Authentication

codex --version 2>&1

If output contains "not authenticated" or "OPENAI_API_KEY": "Authentication required. Run: codex login" If version prints normally: auth is likely OK (full verification happens on first real command).

Check Official Codex Plugin

CODEX_COMPANION=$("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/resolve-companion.sh")

If exit code non-zero (plugin not found), guide the user through the full installation process:

  1. Tell the user to run these commands in order (they must type these themselves since they are interactive CLI commands):
    • /plugin marketplace add openai/codex-plugin-cc — adds the Official Codex marketplace
    • /plugin install codex@openai-codex — installs the plugin from that marketplace
    • /reload-plugins — activates the newly installed plugin
  2. After the user completes the steps, re-run the companion check to verify.

Do NOT just print the steps and move on. Wait for the user to complete them.

If found, run setup check:

node "$CODEX_COMPANION" setup --json

Include the setup output in the status report.

Configuration Management

Read current config

cat ~/.codex/config.toml 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_CONFIG"

Set Model / Effort (--model, --effort)

Both flags are handled by one call. Empty string = no change for that field:

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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 · 128 lines · 50 tokens per session scan B ef6c98f1bb51

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

babysit-pr

Babysit a GitHub pull request after creation by continuously polling review comments, CI checks/workflow runs, and mergeability state until the PR is merged/closed or user help is required. Diagnose failures, retry likely flaky failures up to 3 times, auto-fix/push branch-related issues when appropriate, and keep…

openai/codex · 114 tokens

imagegen

Generate or edit raster images when the task benefits from AI-created bitmap visuals such as photos, illustrations, textures, sprites, mockups, or transparent-background cutouts. Use when Codex should create a brand-new image, transform an existing image, or derive visual variants from references, and the output…

openai/codex · 113 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

next-cache-components-optimizer

Drive a Next.js route to instant navigation by setting up an agentic loop, under Cache Components / PPR, on initial load (hard navigation) and client-side navigation (soft navigation). Encode the goal as a failing @next/playwright instant() e2e and work it to green, one verified route at a time; the shipped test then…

vercel/next.js · 170 tokens