codex-plan-review

codex-plan-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning helper that sends your current coding plan to Codex for an independent review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking a design spec or implementation plan after brainstorming or before execution, then revising the plan based on the feedback.
Why use it?
It can reveal missing steps, design problems, or unnecessary work before you start changing code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the plan-utilities plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Checking a design spec or implementation plan after brainstorming or before execution, then revising the plan based on the feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smirnov-labs/claude-skills/codex-plan-review
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 Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills --skill codex-plan-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plan-utilities, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 890 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 $0.00072 $0.00890
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6a1f787f184f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-plan-review 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 11d 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/codex-plan-review/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Plan Review

Send the current working plan to Codex 5.4 for an independent second opinion. This skill is used to iterate on plans before committing to implementation.

When to Use

  • After brainstorming produces a design spec
  • After writing an implementation plan
  • When you want a critical review before executing a plan
  • When the user says "get a second opinion" or "review this plan"

Process

1. Find the Current Plan

Locate the most recent plan by checking these locations in order:

  1. Design specs: docs/superpowers/specs/*.md (most recent by date prefix)
  2. Plan files: docs/superpowers/plans/*.md (most recent by date prefix)
  3. Active context: .claude/memory-bank/activeContext.md for references to current work

If no plan file is found, ask the user to point you to the plan or spec they want reviewed.

2. Read and Summarize the Plan

Read the full plan file. Construct a prompt for Codex that includes:

  • The complete plan content
  • The project context (from CLAUDE.md or memory bank if relevant)
  • A request for critical architectural review

3. Send to Codex

Run Codex with these exact settings — non-spark model, high effort, read-only:

codex exec \
  -m gpt-5.4-codex \
  --config model_reasoning_effort="high" \
  --sandbox read-only \
  --skip-git-repo-check \
  --full-auto \
  2>/dev/null \
  "<prompt>"

The prompt sent to Codex must follow this template:

You are a senior architect reviewing an implementation plan. Your job is to find weaknesses, missing considerations, and improvements. Be direct and specific.

PROJECT CONTEXT:
<brief project description from CLAUDE.md or memory bank>

PLAN TO REVIEW:
<full plan content>

Review this plan and provide:

1. **Structural Issues** — Are there missing steps, wrong ordering, or circular dependencies?
2. **Architectural Concerns** — Does the plan fight existing patterns? Are there simpler approaches?
3. **Risk Assessment** — What could go wrong? What assumptions are fragile?
4. **Missing Considerations** — What did the plan author overlook? (edge cases, error handling, testing, rollback)
5. **Specific Improvements** — Concrete suggestions, not vague advice. Reference specific plan sections.

Be critical. The goal is to strengthen the plan, not validate it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 11d ago First seen · 101 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 6a1f787f184f

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codex-plan-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 890 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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