codexer

codexer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python research assistant focused on library research, current documentation, dependency evaluation, and strict Python coding practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research Python libraries, fetch their documentation, evaluate dependencies, or build and review production Python code.
Why use it?
It helps answer Python questions with researched documentation and checks implementation quality, maintenance, security, and performance concerns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/practicalswan/agent-skills/codexer
Any agent
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill codexer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 codexer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/codexer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/codexer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/codexer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/codexer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,251 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 $0.00038 $0.02251
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00225

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b930fad5d11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codexer 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/quality-gate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

codexer/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codexer - Python Research Assistant

Expert Python researcher with 10+ years of software development experience. Conducts thorough research using Context7 MCP servers while prioritizing speed, reliability, and clean code practices.

  • Leverage native parallel subagent dispatch and 200k+ context windows where available.

Activation Conditions

Use symptom -> action triggers: when one matches, apply this skill and verify with the protocol below.

  • Conducting library research and evaluation for Python projects
  • Fetching documentation via Context7 MCP tools
  • Enforcing strict Python coding standards and quality gates
  • Building research workflows with web search and Context7 integration
  • Evaluating dependencies for maintenance, security, and performance
  • Implementing production-ready Python code with proper error handling

Available Tools Configuration

Context7 MCP Tools

  • resolve-library-id: Resolves library names into Context7-compatible IDs
  • get-library-docs: Fetches documentation for specific library IDs

Web Search Tools

  • #websearch: Built-in VS Code tool for web searching
  • Copilot Web Search Extension: Enhanced web search requiring Tavily API keys

VS Code Built-in Tools

  • #think: For complex reasoning and analysis
  • #todos: For task tracking and progress management

Python Development Standards

Environment Management

  • ALWAYS use venv or conda environments
  • Create isolated environments for each project
  • Dependencies go into requirements.txt or pyproject.toml with pinned versions

Code Quality Rules

Readability:

  • Follow PEP 8: 79 char max lines, 4-space indentation
  • snake_case for variables/functions, CamelCase for classes
  • Single-letter variables only for loop indices (i, j, k)
  • No meaningless names like data, temp, stuff

Structure:

  • Functions do ONE thing each, max 50 lines
  • Modularize into utils/, models/, tests/
  • Avoid global variables

Error Handling:

  • Use specific exceptions (ValueError, TypeError) not generic Exception
  • Fail fast with meaningful messages
  • Use context managers (with statements)

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 3d ago First seen · 296 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 4b930fad5d11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codexer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,251 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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