kanban-codex-lane

kanban-codex-lane is a skill for Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for using Codex as an isolated implementation worker inside a Hermes-managed Kanban task. Kanban is a board-based way to track work through stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign a clearly scoped coding, refactoring, documentation, testing, or migration change to Codex in a separate workspace.
Why use it?
It keeps task ownership, testing, review, and completion decisions with Hermes while Codex handles a bounded coding task.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for hermes-agent.

Good fit Use it to assign a clearly scoped coding, refactoring, documentation, testing, or migration change to Codex in a separate workspace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s3yed/appie-kit/kanban-codex-lane
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill kanban-codex-lane
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,995 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 $0.00042 $0.02995
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01497
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00599
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00299

Measured 9d ago against content hash 076cbe75693e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban-codex-lane 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 9d 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/automation/kanban-codex-lane/SKILL.md · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kanban Codex Lane

Overview

This skill defines the lightweight Hermes+Codex dual-lane convention for Kanban workers. Hermes is always the task owner: it calls kanban_show, decides whether Codex is appropriate, creates or selects an isolated workspace, starts and monitors Codex, reconciles any diff, runs verification, and writes the final kanban_complete or kanban_block handoff. Codex is an input lane only. Codex output is not a task completion signal, not a trusted reviewer, and not allowed to write durable Kanban state directly.

The convention exists so a Hermes worker can use Codex for bounded implementation help without changing the dispatcher. The dispatcher must still spawn Hermes workers. A worker may optionally spawn Codex inside its own run, then accept, partially accept, or reject the lane after independent review and tests.

When to Use

Use the Codex lane when all of these are true:

  • The Kanban task is a coding, refactor, documentation, test, or mechanical migration task with clear acceptance criteria.
  • A bounded diff can be evaluated by Hermes in one run.
  • The repo can be copied or checked out in an isolated git worktree/branch.
  • Hermes can run the relevant tests itself after Codex exits.
  • The prompt can state all safety constraints and files that must not change.

Do not use the Codex lane when any of these are true:

  • The task requires human judgment that is not already captured in the Kanban body.
  • The worker lacks repo access, Codex auth, or time to reconcile the result.
  • The change touches secrets, credential stores, private user data, or production order-entry systems.
  • A small direct edit is faster and safer than spawning another agent.
  • The task is research-only and should produce a written handoff rather than a diff.
  • The worker would be tempted to mark Done based only on Codex self-report.

Ownership Rules

  1. Hermes owns the Kanban lifecycle. Codex must never call kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_create, gateway messaging, or any Hermes board CLI as a substitute for the worker.
  2. Hermes owns final acceptance. Treat Codex commits/diffs as untrusted patches until reviewed and verified.
  3. Hermes owns test execution. Codex may run tests, but those runs are advisory; repeat required verification from Hermes with the repo's canonical wrapper.
  4. Hermes owns safety. If Codex changes safety boundaries, risk gates, live trading behavior, or secrets handling, reject the lane even if tests pass.
  5. Hermes owns cleanup. Kill stuck Codex processes and remove temporary worktrees when they are no longer needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 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. 9d ago First seen · 277 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 076cbe75693e

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kanban-codex-lane is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (8 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,995 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 2026-08-31.

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