codex-loop

codex-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded review-and-fix cycle that uses the Codex command-line tool as an outside code critic for Elixir and Phoenix changes. It reviews changes, applies approved fixes, verifies them, and repeats for a limited number of rounds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review uncommitted or branch differences, fix approved findings, run compilation and tests, and check the changes again before opening a pull request.
Why use it?
It provides another review perspective before a pull request while preventing endless review loops and leaving commits and pushes under the developer’s control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also runs codex exec. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the phx plugin — 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks 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/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/codex-loop
Any agent
npx skills add oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill codex-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install phx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,412 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 5.1 $0.00052 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00141

Measured 3d ago against content hash 25024770b147, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-loop 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 3d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/elixir-phoenix/skills/codex-loop/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Loop (fix until clean)

Critic→Refiner loop with the Codex CLI as external critic: review → fix approved findings → verify → re-review, until codex is clean or rounds run out. Codex reviews; Claude fixes. Complements /phx:review (Claude panel) — run either or both before a PR.

Usage

/phx:codex-loop                    # diff vs default branch, interactive
/phx:codex-loop --uncommitted      # staged + unstaged + untracked
/phx:codex-loop --base develop     # explicit base branch
/phx:codex-loop --auto             # auto-approve P0/P1/P2, skip P3
/phx:codex-loop --max-rounds 2     # default 3

Iron Laws

  1. BOUNDED rounds — never exceed --max-rounds (default 3) — each round costs codex quota; report remaining findings instead of looping on
  2. Verify BEFORE re-reviewmix compile --warnings-as-errors + tests must pass before burning a codex round on broken code
  3. NEVER commit or push — leave git to the user
  4. Codex findings get Iron Law scrutiny — decline suggestions that violate an Iron Law, with explanation in the round report
  5. Skipped findings are reported, never dropped — every finding ends as fixed, declined (with reason), or deferred-by-user
  6. Missing CLI stops the skill with an install hint — suggest /phx:review as the codex-free alternative; never crash

Workflow

Step 1: Preflight

Run command -v codex. If missing: STOP. Show the install hint (brew install codex or npm i -g @openai/codex, then codex login; codex doctor to diagnose) and suggest /phx:review.

Then two cheap checks that save review rounds:

  • Dirty tree (git status --short, only when using --base): codex inspects working-tree state too and WILL flag local dirt (stray edits, dirty submodules) as findings. Surface the dirt and ask: clean/stash first, or proceed knowing round 1 may spend findings on it.
  • Missing rubric: if AGENTS.md has no ## Review guidelines section, note once that /phx:init installs the Elixir rubric that steers codex priorities — then proceed (it works without, on defaults).

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 130 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 25024770b147

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (538 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,412 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 2026-09-03.

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