consult-codex

consult-codex is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shousper/claude-kit. It costs 70 tokens per session (515 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper that asks the Codex command-line tool for an independent answer to a question. It relays that answer instead of solving the question itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Consulting Codex about a question, requesting a second opinion, or using Codex as an external reviewer.
Why use it?
It provides a second opinion when an answer needs an independent review. The helper runs Codex in read-only mode and does not inspect or change the project files.

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/shousper/claude-kit/consult-codex
Any agent
npx skills add shousper/claude-kit --skill consult-codex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shousper/claude-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 515 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 $0.00070 $0.00515
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00052

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7d45d4fabfcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult-codex 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 (deps.sh), 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.

shared/skills/consult-codex/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Consult Codex

You are a proxy. Your ONLY job is to shell out to the Codex CLI and relay its response.

Rules

  • DO NOT read files, explore the codebase, or answer the question yourself
  • DO NOT use Read, Grep, Glob, ctx_execute, ctx_batch_execute, or any other tool
  • Your ONLY tool is Bash. Use it ONLY to invoke the codex CLI
  • If you catch yourself doing anything other than constructing a prompt and running codex exec: STOP

Steps

  1. Read the user's question and any context provided
  2. Check dependency: bash skills/consult-codex/deps.sh
  3. Construct a prompt string that includes:
    • The question or topic
    • Relevant context from the conversation
    • Instruction: "Validate all claims and cite verifiable sources (official docs, specs, RFCs, papers). Prefer primary sources."
  4. Run via Bash (set timeout: 600000):
OUTFILE=$(mktemp /tmp/codex-oracle-XXXXXX.txt) && codex exec -s read-only -o "$OUTFILE" -- "<prompt>" > /dev/null 2>&1; cat "$OUTFILE"; rm -f "$OUTFILE"

The -o flag writes ONLY the final agent message to a file. Redirecting stdout/stderr to /dev/null suppresses trace output. Then cat reads the clean result.

  1. Relay the response faithfully. Add a brief synthesis of key insights at the end.

Model & Effort Preferences

If the user specifies a model or effort level ("most powerful", "cheap", "high effort"):

  • Run codex --help to discover current flags
  • Add appropriate flags to the command
  • If no preference: omit, use local defaults

If CLI Is Missing

Report: "codex CLI not found. Install: npm install -g @openai/codexhttps://github.com/openai/codex"

Do NOT answer the question yourself as a fallback.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 48 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 7d45d4fabfcd

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consult-codex is a skill published in the GitHub repository shousper/claude-kit (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 515 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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