dale-max

dale-max is a skill for Codex from lubluniky/dale. It costs 36 tokens per session (733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A high-assurance workflow that keeps several Codex threads working together, reviewing each other's results, and revising work until an explicit pass condition is met. A Codex thread is a separate agent conversation with its own task context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex tasks that need parallel investigation, multiple reviewer perspectives, plan review, result synthesis, and a formal approval gate.
Why use it?
It is for work where one review is not enough and progress must continue through evidence-based checks and revisions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it for complex tasks that need parallel investigation, multiple reviewer perspectives, plan review, result synthesis, and a formal approval gate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lubluniky/dale/dale-max
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 lubluniky/dale --skill dale-max
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lubluniky/dale

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 733 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.00733
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 3d ago against content hash a70e30caccd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dale-max 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.

skills/dale-max/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dale Max

Use a high-assurance review loop for explicitly requested consequential work. The calling agent owns the plan, integration, and final gate. Use subagents for independent implementation or review; separate Codex tasks are optional only when the user explicitly requests them.

Establish the acceptance contract

Define the outcome, authority, criteria, exact target, direct evidence, and material failure modes. Respect user-specified resource limits. Do not impose unlimited review or a fixed number of reviewers. Read contracts.md for worker and reviewer contracts. Default to inherited model and effort; read model-routing.md only for an explicit routing choice.

Implement and review

The coordinator may implement directly or assign a bounded worker with exclusive write scope. Use live collaboration tools and capacity. Workers do not spawn more agents or separate tasks. Keep overlapping writes sequential and preserve unrelated changes. Reuse the implementer for focused revisions.

Run a fresh independent reviewer against the original requirement, raw artifact, and evidence, without the implementer's intended verdict. Delegate distinct review questions only when each covers a material failure mode that could change acceptance. A separate preflight review is useful for costly or hard-to-reverse plans; do not require it for every cycle. The coordinator performs complementary work while review runs.

If independent review is unavailable, continue implementation and direct checks that remain useful, but report the Max independence gate as unavailable. Do not claim a same-agent review is independent or issue final PASS without the gate.

Accept or revise

Resolve findings by direct evidence, target identity, freshness, and coverage. Keep a compact criterion-to-evidence record. Integrate accepted changes and run required checks plus sufficient behavioral validation in the destination. An isolated worker's success does not prove delivery.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 Changed · -139 lines · -60 tokens per session a70e30caccd3
  2. 11d ago First seen · 216 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 1b21c28ccf99

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dale-max is a skill published in the GitHub repository lubluniky/dale (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 733 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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