codex-handoff

codex-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ParaGenie/claude-codex-handoff. It costs 119 tokens per session (2,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for splitting a coding task between Claude Code, Codex CLI, and a reviewing agent. It uses a written specification to coordinate planning, implementation, verification, and code review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning changes, assigning implementation, running verification, reviewing a diff, and recording the result through codex-plugin-cc commands.
Why use it?
It creates a shared record of the task and acceptance checks when a change spans several files or involves complex logic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: a Claude Code plugin manifest, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the codex-handoff plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Planning changes, assigning implementation, running verification, reviewing a diff, and recording the result through codex-plugin-cc commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paragenie/claude-codex-handoff/codex-handoff
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 ParaGenie/claude-codex-handoff --skill codex-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ParaGenie/claude-codex-handoff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install codex-handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin codex-handoff/plugin install codex-handoff after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,872 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 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 $0.00119 $0.02872
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01436
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00287

Measured 2d ago against content hash f15657bf9b1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-handoff 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 2d 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:

.claude-plugin/skills/codex-handoff/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Handoff Workflow

Claude plans and writes a spec, a Claude subagent implements in the host working tree, a fresh Codex session reviews the diff through the codex-plugin-cc plugin. Everything happens inside one Claude Code session.

Roles

Role Who Does
Orchestrator Claude main agent (you) Probe code, write the spec, spawn subagents, record results, drive git, triage the review
Implementer Claude subagent (general-purpose, host) Edit only the files in spec §2, write acceptance command lines into §9, no commit
Verifier A second, fresh Claude subagent (host) Run the §9 commands, report output tails
Reviewer Codex via /codex:adversarial-review Judge diff + §9 evidence against the spec, write the report

Two rules that hold everywhere

  1. The orchestrator never touches the codebase. No implementation edits, no build/test runs — not even a one-line fix. Edits go to the implementer subagent; verify runs go to a separate host subagent. The main agent keeps planning, judgment, the spec/review markdown, and git (branch + commit).
  2. Implementation and review are never the same model. Claude implements, Codex reviews. Two Claude subagents are one model. If Codex is unavailable (stall, usage limit), the task waits — there is no Claude-reviewer fallback, not "just this once". /codex:rescue is not part of this loop; the only /codex:* commands used are review, adversarial-review, status, result, cancel.

Why this split: the Codex sandbox cannot write to .git/ and does not mount .venv / node_modules, so it cannot run the project's build/test tools. That makes it a poor implementer but a fine cold reader of a diff. Its only source of acceptance truth is the §9 evidence recorded in Phase 2c — and keeping implementer and verifier separate means that evidence was not produced by the hands that wrote the code.

When to use

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago Changed · -197 lines · -56 tokens per session f15657bf9b1b
  2. 8d ago First seen · 361 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A fa4884685bd3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository ParaGenie/claude-codex-handoff (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 2,872 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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