codex

codex is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from letitbk/claude-academic-setup. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for asking the OpenAI Codex command-line tool for code reviews, plan checks, and independent opinions about an implementation. It includes guidance for checking the tool and writing focused review requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review code changes, evaluate an implementation plan, double-check a design, or request another opinion about a technical decision.
Why use it?
It adds a separate perspective when you want to catch problems or test whether a coding approach is sound.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,337 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 $0.03337
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01669
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00334

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2a755a3d04de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex 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 4d 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.

skills/codex/SKILL.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Review & Second Opinion Skill

Use OpenAI's Codex CLI to get code reviews, plan evaluations, and second opinions. This provides an independent AI perspective using GPT-5.5 or o3 models.

When to Use This Skill

Trigger when user:

  • Uses /codex command explicitly
  • Asks for a "code review"
  • Wants to "evaluate a plan" or "check my implementation plan"
  • Wants a "second opinion" on code or approach
  • Says "review this", "check this code", "validate this"
  • Asks "what do you think about this implementation"
  • Wants to "double check" code changes
  • Requests "another perspective" on code

Prerequisites

Codex CLI must be installed and authenticated:

# Check installation
which codex

# Login if needed
codex login

Prompt Rules

Follow these when constructing Codex prompts. Better prompts beat higher reasoning effort.

  1. Use XML-tagged prompt blocks — give Codex a <task>, an output contract, and grounding rules instead of bare string instructions.
  2. Don't be vague — "take a look at this" produces vague output. State what you want evaluated and what shape the answer should take.
  3. Don't mix unrelated jobs — review in one run, fix in another, docs in a third. One clear task per Codex invocation.
  4. Don't ask for "more reasoning" — tighten the output contract or add a <verification_loop> instead of saying "think harder."
  5. Separate facts from inferences — always include <grounding_rules> so Codex labels speculation explicitly.
  6. Specify output shape — tell Codex exactly what sections to return. Structured output is easier to act on.

Guardrail

After presenting Codex findings, STOP. Do not make any code changes. Do not fix any issues. Ask the user which issues, if any, they want fixed before touching a single file. Auto-applying fixes from a review is strictly forbidden, even if the fix is obvious.

Workflow

Step 1: Determine What to Review

ALWAYS ask the user what they want reviewed:

Use AskUserQuestion to clarify:

  1. Scope: What should be reviewed?
    • Uncommitted changes (staged/unstaged)
    • Specific file(s)
    • Changes against a branch
    • A specific commit
    • An implementation plan
    • General approach/implementation question

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 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. 4d ago First seen · 394 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 2a755a3d04de

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codex is a skill published in the GitHub repository letitbk/claude-academic-setup (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,337 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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