codex-agent

codex-agent is a skill for Claude Code from majiayu000/spellbook. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for asking the Codex command-line agent for a second opinion on code, debugging, or possible implementations. It requires an installed and authenticated Codex CLI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review files or directories, cross-check another agent's work, investigate failures, and receive feedback with file paths and line numbers.
Why use it?
It gives a separate read-only review that can reveal security issues, bugs, performance problems, or alternative approaches before changes are made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; runs codex exec; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to review files or directories, cross-check another agent's work, investigate failures, and receive feedback with file paths and line numbers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiayu000/spellbook/codex-agent
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 majiayu000/spellbook --skill codex-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,903 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 11 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Excessive Agency · line 32
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 59
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 70
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 88
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 100
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 204
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 170
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 196
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 212
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 222
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 226
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00045 $0.01903
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00761
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00190

Measured 12d ago against content hash 87d56059c3da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-agent 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check-codex.sh, scripts/codex-wrapper.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-agent/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Agent Collaboration Skill

This skill enables Claude Code to collaborate with OpenAI's Codex CLI agent for second-opinion review, cross-verification, debugging analysis, and alternative implementation proposals.

Default posture: Codex reviews in read-only; the primary agent applies changes only when the user asked for fixes or approved them after reading the review.

Optional Codex Review Workflow

Use this workflow when the user asks for Codex review, wants a second opinion, or needs cross-verification from a separate coding agent.

Step 1: Call Codex and Read Feedback

REPORT="$(mktemp -t codex-review.XXXXXX.md)"
codex exec -C <project_path> -s read-only -o "$REPORT" \
  "Review the code in <file_or_directory>. Check for:
   - Security vulnerabilities
   - Performance issues
   - Code quality and best practices
   - Potential bugs and edge cases
   - Naming and readability
   Provide specific, actionable feedback with file paths and line numbers."

cat "$REPORT"

Keep the write and read in the same Bash call, or pass a concrete report path between calls; shell variables do not persist across tool calls.

Step 2: Apply Fixes Based on Codex Feedback

When the user asked to apply fixes, handle each issue identified by Codex:

  1. Read the relevant file
  2. Apply the fix using Edit tool
  3. Verify the fix addresses Codex's concern

If the user only asked for a review or second opinion, report findings without editing files.

Step 3: Re-verify with Codex (Optional)

codex exec -C <project_path> -s read-only \
  "Verify the fixes applied to <files>. Confirm issues are resolved."

Workflow Examples

Example 1: Review and Fix a Single File

# Step 1: Get Codex review
REPORT="$(mktemp -t codex-review.XXXXXX.md)"
codex exec -C /project -s read-only -o "$REPORT" \
  "Review src/auth/login.ts for security vulnerabilities and code quality issues. Provide specific line numbers and fixes."

# Step 2: Read the feedback
cat "$REPORT"

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago Changed · +2 lines 87d56059c3da
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 2d485f33a824

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/spellbook (288 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,903 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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