second-opinion

second-opinion is a skill for Claude Code from peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit. It costs 166 tokens per session (2,199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review skill that asks OpenAI's Codex command-line tool to independently inspect a project and give another opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for difficult debugging, architecture decisions, tricky code reviews, or validation before making an important change.
Why use it?
It helps expose missed edge cases, questionable design choices, or mistakes when your own reasoning is stuck or needs checking.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: runs codex exec; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for difficult debugging, architecture decisions, tricky code reviews, or validation before making an important change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/peterkrueck/claude-code-development-kit/second-opinion
About the project

Claude Code Development Kit is a starter workflow that gives Claude Code project context, working notes, verification commands, review commands, and hooks for maintaining them across sessions. It is for beginners and intermediate users building applications or side projects who want Claude Code to understand the codebase and check its work. The catalogue entries are the kit's skills and commands.

peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit · 1,388 stars · on GitHub · linkedin.com

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 peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit --skill second-opinion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,199 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: 4 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 Excessive Agency · line 47
    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 53
    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 Excessive Agency · line 62
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 80
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00166 $0.02199
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00880
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00220

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 27f9471ecba8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

second-opinion 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.

skills/second-opinion/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Second Opinion — OpenAI Codex

Get an independent second opinion from OpenAI's Codex CLI. It uses Codex's default model — a completely different architecture and training run from Claude, which makes it genuinely useful for catching blind spots, validating reasoning on edge cases, or surfacing trade-offs Claude would miss (Claude's own errors tend to be invisible to Claude).

Codex has full read access to the project — it can read files, grep code, and explore the codebase. Its project instructions (AGENTS.md at the repository root) tell it to prime itself on the key docs before answering. You provide the specific question and any focused context; Codex handles the rest.

This is the default second-opinion engine. For a Gemini second opinion specifically, the user invokes the separate second-opinion-gemini skill ("ask Gemini"). When the user says "ask both", run this skill and that one, then synthesize all three views (yours + Codex + Gemini).

When to Use

  • Architecture decisions with real trade-offs
  • Debugging where you've been going in circles
  • Code review on tricky logic or subtle edge cases
  • Validating your reasoning before the user acts on it
  • When the user explicitly asks for a second opinion

Don't use this for routine tasks — every call takes 10-60+ seconds and consumes ChatGPT-plan quota. Reserve it for decisions where being wrong has real consequences.

Process

Step 1: Prepare the Prompt

Codex has NO access to your conversation history, but it CAN read project files. Structure your prompt as:

  1. The question — what exactly you want Codex to weigh in on
  2. Your current thinking (recommended) — share your position so Codex can challenge it
  3. Relevant area (optional) — if the project has distinct modules or components, state which one this is about so Codex primes on the right docs. Default is the whole project; only narrow this when it helps.
  4. Specific context (if needed) — pipe code snippets or diffs via stdin when the relevant code is scattered or you want to focus attention on specific sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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 · 123 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 27f9471ecba8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

second-opinion is a skill published in the GitHub repository peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit (1,388 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 2,199 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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