codex-delegator

codex-delegator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent skill that sends code-writing tasks to the Codex command-line tool. It covers implementation, tests, refactoring, code completion, and changes across many files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement functions and features, write unit or integration tests, complete unfinished code, refactor existing code, or apply the same code change in several files.
Why use it?
It helps route routine code changes to a tool designed for generating code. It is not intended for architecture decisions, security reviews, or documentation-heavy work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to implement functions and features, write unit or integration tests, complete unfinished code, refactor existing code, or apply the same code change in several files.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/codex-delegator
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 nexus-substrate/nexus-agents --skill codex-delegator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for codex-delegator

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/codex-delegator.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/codex-delegator)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/codex-delegator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/codex-delegator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,823 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: 5 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 Prompt Injection · line 13
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 72
    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 78
    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 81
    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.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 217
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00060 $0.01823
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00182

Measured 7d ago against content hash a82eb515d439, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-delegator 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 7d 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/codex-delegator/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Delegator Skill

Full documentation:

Real-World Performance (Tested 2026-01-18)

Metric Value Notes
Model version gpt-5.2-codex Latest research preview
Latency (simple) 3-4 seconds Single function generation
Latency (complex) 5-6 seconds Interface + class boilerplate
Token overhead ~900-1050 per session Fixed session initialization cost
Default sandbox read-only Safe for code generation
Code quality Production-ready Proper generics, types, error handling

When to Use Codex

Codex excels at:

Task Type Examples
Code Generation Implement functions, create classes, add features
Test Generation Write unit tests, integration tests, test fixtures
Refactoring Extract methods, rename variables, restructure
Code Completion Complete partial implementations, fill in stubs
Bulk Code Changes Apply patterns across multiple files

Do NOT use for: Architecture decisions, security review, documentation-heavy tasks.

Delegation Methods

Method 1: MCP Tool (Recommended)

Use the delegate_to_model MCP tool for intelligent routing:

delegate_to_model(task: "Implement a binary search function in TypeScript")

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 7d ago First seen · 237 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A a82eb515d439

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-delegator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,823 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

local-ai-agents

Build local-first AI agents that run entirely on a developer workstation with Microsoft Foundry Local and Qwen function-calling models. Covers Small Language Models (SLMs), the OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, sandboxed local tools, local RAG with Chroma, local MCP servers, hybrid cloud/local routing, and the…

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 200 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

next-partial-prefetching-adoption

Turn on Partial Prefetching in a Next.js app and work through the insights it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable or adopt Partial Prefetching, flip the partialPrefetching flag, opt routes in with export const prefetch = 'partial', audit Link prefetch={true} behavior, preserve existing prefetched UI with…

vercel/next.js · 103 tokens

chronicle

Analyze Copilot session history for standup reports, usage tips, session search, and session reindexing. Use when the user asks for a standup, daily summary, usage tips, workflow recommendations, wants to search or find past sessions by keyword/file/PR, wants to reindex their session store, or asks about deleting…

microsoft/vscode · 72 tokens

babysit-pr

Babysit a GitHub pull request after creation by continuously polling review comments, CI checks/workflow runs, and mergeability state until the PR is merged/closed or user help is required. Diagnose failures, retry likely flaky failures up to 3 times, auto-fix/push branch-related issues when appropriate, and keep…

openai/codex · 114 tokens