codex-prompt

codex-prompt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TAKEOFF69/codex-skills-kit. It costs 77 tokens per session (5,586 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing structured prompts that give another Codex run a complete coding task. It covers implementation, debugging, audits, operations work, refactoring, and related task types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create copy-ready prompts with repository paths, commands, required changes, verification criteria, and instructions for completing a task autonomously.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad request into clear goals, assumptions, success checks, and a stopping point, reducing the need for clarification during the coding task.

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/takeoff69/codex-skills-kit/codex-prompt
Any agent
npx skills add TAKEOFF69/codex-skills-kit --skill codex-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TAKEOFF69/codex-skills-kit

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 codex-prompt

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/takeoff69/codex-skills-kit/codex-prompt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/takeoff69/codex-skills-kit/codex-prompt.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,586 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00077 $0.05586
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02793
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00559

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9904fac1c6f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-prompt scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- UI work requires observable proof (browser/curl/screenshot) beyond build success
skills/codex-prompt/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Prompt Generator

Generates copy-paste-ready Codex prompts that ship self-contained – Codex runs locally with full repo access and executes without clarification turns.

Foundations

These two principles outrank the category templates below. When a category rule and a foundation tension, follow the foundation.

Karpathy (higher authority). State assumptions; present interpretations when ambiguous; push back when a simpler path exists; stop and ask when confused. Ship the minimum code that solves the problem – every line traces back to the request. Transform tasks into verifiable goals: success criteria + stop condition, let Codex loop until verified.

Directional. Open every prompt with Goal + Success means + Stop when. Lead each instruction with a positive verb naming the correct action. Demote decorative ALWAYS/NEVER/MUST to plain prose; reserve them for true invariants (safety boundaries, hard limits, required output fields). Negation survives in four narrow cases: hard safety, near-identical-path disambiguation, acceptable-space too large to enumerate, narrower-than-any-positive-paraphrase (incident-derived rules tagged Past incident: qualify under case 4).

Task types

Type Use Key trait
Fix Known-root-cause bug Broken code + corrected code
Build Feature from design doc Phased + schemas
Ops/Tuning Runtime/deploy/infra/measurement Live baseline + before/after metrics
Audit Read-only analysis PASS/FAIL tables + output format
PR-series Multi-PR feature Numbered PRs + deps
Refactor Restructure w/o behavior change Before/after + invariant

Task mode (orthogonal to task type)

Every prompt picks one mode. The mode shapes what the prompt ships and how much room Codex has to think.

Mode When Prompt ships
Directive HOW is known (mechanical sweep, known-root-cause fix, target structure decided) Exact steps, before/after code, target schema. Codex executes the spec.
Investigative HOW is open (root-cause hunt, novel bug, ambiguous design space, finding all the ways a thing breaks) Goal + success criteria + invariants + stop condition. Codex investigates, proposes, then acts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 330 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 9904fac1c6f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository TAKEOFF69/codex-skills-kit (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 5,586 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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