codex-unified: Skill for Codex

.codex/skills/test-tui/SKILL.md

test-tui is a skill for Codex from MikeManifold/codex-unified. It costs 13 tokens per session (127 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of test-tui, Apache-2.0.

A guide for testing changes through the Codex text interface, including how to start it and capture detailed logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch Codex TUI, send test messages correctly, and save trace-level logs in a chosen temporary directory.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to check interactive behavior and investigate problems in the interface.

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/test-tui/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MikeManifold/codex-unified

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 127 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 $0.00013 $0.00127
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00051
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00013

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e81787c2d976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-tui 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 2mo 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 test-tui — 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/test-tui/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

You can start and use Codex TUI to verify changes.

Important notes:

Start interactively. Always set RUST_LOG="trace" when starting the process. Pass -c log_dir=<some_temp_dir> argument to have logs written to a specific directory to help with debugging. When sending a test message programmatically, send text first, then send Enter in a separate write (do not send text + Enter in one burst). Use just codex target to run - just codex -c ...

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. 2mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A e81787c2d976

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-tui is a skill published in the GitHub repository MikeManifold/codex-unified (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 127 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to test-tui, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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