codex-unified: Skill for Codex

.codex/skills/codex-bug/SKILL.md

codex-bug is a skill for Codex from MikeManifold/codex-unified. It costs 66 tokens per session (562 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of codex-bug, Apache-2.0.

A guide for diagnosing bug reports filed in the openai/codex GitHub repository. It helps determine whether a report can be verified, needs more information, or describes expected behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a GitHub issue, checking its reproduction details against the repository, requesting missing information, or explaining why it is not a bug.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent way to assess a Codex issue before deciding what response or next step is appropriate.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is MikeManifold/codex-unified's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on codex-unified itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything codex-unified configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MikeManifold/codex-unified. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeManifold/codex-unified/main/.codex/skills/codex-bug/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MikeManifold/codex-unified

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 562 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.00562
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00225
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00056

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cfdaae2defa5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-bug 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to codex-bug — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.codex/skills/codex-bug/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Bug

Overview

Diagnose a Codex GitHub bug report and decide the next action: verify against sources, request more info, or explain why it is not a bug.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the input
  • Require a GitHub issue URL that points to github.com/openai/codex/issues/….
  • If the URL is missing or not in the right repo, ask the user for the correct link.
  1. Network access
  • Always access the issue over the network immediately, even if you think access is blocked or unavailable.
  • Prefer the GitHub API over HTML pages because the HTML is noisy:
    • Issue: https://api.github.com/repos/openai/codex/issues/<number>
    • Comments: https://api.github.com/repos/openai/codex/issues/<number>/comments
  • If the environment requires explicit approval, request it on demand via the tool and continue without additional user prompting.
  • Only if the network attempt fails after requesting approval, explain what you can do offline (e.g., draft a response template) and ask how to proceed.
  1. Read the issue
  • Use the GitHub API responses (issue + comments) as the source of truth rather than scraping the HTML issue page.
  • Extract: title, body, repro steps, expected vs actual, environment, logs, and any attachments.
  • Note whether the report already includes logs or session details.
  • If the report includes a thread ID, mention it in the summary and use it to look up the logs and session details if you have access to them.
  1. Summarize the bug before investigating
  • Before inspecting code, docs, or logs in depth, write a short summary of the report in your own words.
  • Include the reported behavior, expected behavior, repro steps, environment, and what evidence is already attached or missing.
  1. Decide the course of action
  • Verify with sources when the report is specific and likely reproducible. Inspect relevant Codex files (or mention the files to inspect if access is unavailable).
  • Request more information when the report is vague, missing repro steps, or lacks logs/environment.
  • Explain not a bug when the report contradicts current behavior or documented constraints (cite the evidence from the issue and any local sources you checked).

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A cfdaae2defa5

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codex-bug is a skill published in the GitHub repository MikeManifold/codex-unified (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 562 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to codex-bug, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.