codex-cli-agent

codex-cli-agent is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line dispatcher that sends bounded tasks to OpenAI-compatible coding models through the Codex command. Codex is a coding agent, and the dispatcher can include a persona and source file in the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send code-review, refactoring, security-audit, or similar tasks to GPT-5 Codex or another supported OpenAI-compatible model.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to delegate focused work such as reviews or refactoring while keeping large prompts out of command-line arguments and process listings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the cli-agents plugin — 11 skills, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to send code-review, refactoring, security-audit, or similar tasks to GPT-5 Codex or another supported OpenAI-compatible model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/codex-cli-agent
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 richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill codex-cli-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cli-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 13 agents.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 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 $0.00038 $0.00663
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00265
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 18d ago against content hash 3d647ded48a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-cli-agent 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 18d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/capability_profile.py, scripts/model_catalog.py, scripts/run_agent.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.

plugins/cli-agents/skills/codex-cli-agent/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex CLI Agent

Dispatch the authorized task using the bundled router.

Contents

Constraints

Reuse the user's runtime/model/effort choice; do not start an unrequested review. Use one backend; halt on failure without silent fallback. Analysis uses --isolated; it suppresses dangerous flags and adds instructions, but is not an OS sandbox. Non-isolated dispatch requires authorization and external containment where needed.

Quick start

Run from this skill root; input and output paths are supplied by the caller:

python3 scripts/run_agent.py agents/security-auditor.md <input> <output> "Review supplied source." --cli codex --isolated --require-input

Workflow

  1. Read dispatch details before selecting flags or models.
  2. Read execution rules and backend capabilities; user instructions govern authorization.
  3. Use the selected model or catalog tier; inspect the resolved executable/version.
  4. Dispatch once, then check exit status, nonempty output and requested acceptance criteria.

Profile contract applies when a caller supplies a profile.

Verification

Record backend, executable/version, model, effort, scope and result. Empty or failed output is not a completed review. Log failures in Map Debt. For gated reviews, record PASS/REVISE/REJECT through the control plane; only PASS approves.

🎭 Persona Registry (agents/)

These personas are mirrored across CLI agent dispatchers to ensure consistent analytical behavior across the ecosystem.

Persona Use For
security-auditor.md Red team, vulnerability scanning, threat modeling
refactor-expert.md Optimizing code for readability, performance, and DRY
architect-review.md Assessing system design, modularity, and complexity

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 18d ago Changed · -54 lines · -27 tokens per session 3d647ded48a3
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines 0c430c7c2e93
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +21 lines b26c99b29744
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 2bdf32138773

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codex-cli-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.