codex-pair-ack

codex-pair-ack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lykhoyda/ask-llm. It costs 47 tokens per session (918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for acknowledging a codex-pair finding by its unique 16-character hash and a reason you provide. A finding is a concern reported during code review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have assessed a repeated finding and want to defer or dismiss its reminder while recording why.
Why use it?
It suppresses reminders or review gates for one known concern without turning off future reviews or claiming the issue is fixed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ask-llm plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/lykhoyda/ask-llm/codex-pair-ack
Any agent
npx skills add Lykhoyda/ask-llm --skill codex-pair-ack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lykhoyda/ask-llm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ask-llm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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 $0.00047 $0.00918
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00459
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 5d ago against content hash c340684350e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-pair-ack 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 5d 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.

packages/claude-plugin/skills/codex-pair-ack/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Portable contract

Acknowledge one finding by its 16-character concern hash with a non-empty user reason. Acknowledgement suppresses that finding's reminder/gate; it does not disable future reviews or claim the concern was fixed.

Host adapters

Pi adapter

Run /codex-pair-ack <hash> <reason>. On Pi this dismisses the matching reminder; there is no blocking Stop gate.

Claude Code adapter

The existing detailed workflow below is the Claude Code adapter. Its Agent, MCP, hook, CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT, and AskUserQuestion mechanics apply only on Claude Code; they do not override the Pi adapter above.

Acknowledge a codex-pair HIGH finding

Records an ack for the given finding hash so the codex-pair Stop-gate skips it on future turn-ends. The gate prints a full 16-char hash in its block message, e.g. [fc69d46835dfd2ab] src/auth.ts — pass that hash verbatim.

Instructions

  1. Parse args. The first whitespace-delimited token is <hash> (16-char hex). The remaining text (strip enclosing quotes if present) is <reason>. If either is missing, print usage and stop:

    Usage: /codex-pair-ack <hash> "<reason>"
    Example: /codex-pair-ack fc69d46835dfd2ab "false positive — test-only code path"
    
  2. Locate the .codex-pair/ directory. Walk up from the current working directory looking for .codex-pair/context.md. The directory that contains .codex-pair/ is <markerDir>. If no marker is found after reaching the filesystem root, tell the user:

    codex-pair is not enabled in this project (no .codex-pair/context.md found). Nothing to acknowledge.
    
  3. Validate the hash before using it: it must match ^[0-9a-f]{16}$. If it does not, print the usage block from step 1 and stop (a malformed hash means the user mistyped it).

  4. Record the ack by running the Bash command below. Substitute real values for <plugin-root> (the absolute path of this plugin, i.e. the value of CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT), <markerDir>, and <hash>. Do NOT interpolate <reason> into the command string — the reason is read from stdin via a single-quoted heredoc so the shell never expands $(...), backticks, or quotes inside it (injection-safe). Replace the <reason> line with the user's reason text verbatim:

    node --input-type=module -e '
    import { addAck } from "<plugin-root>/scripts/lib/state.mjs";
    import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
    // With `node -e CODE A B`, process.argv = [node, A, B] (no script-file
    // placeholder), so argv[1]=markerDir, argv[2]=hash.
    addAck(process.argv[1], process.argv[2], { reason: readFileSync(0, "utf8").trim() });
    ' "<markerDir>" "<hash>" <<'CODEX_PAIR_ACK_REASON'
    <reason>
    CODEX_PAIR_ACK_REASON
    

    addAck writes a concurrency-safe shard under <markerDir>/.codex-pair/state/acks/ (creating the directory if needed). The hash is passed verbatim — no resolution is performed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 5d ago First seen · 65 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A c340684350e8

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codex-pair-ack is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lykhoyda/ask-llm (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 918 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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