codex-sdd

codex-sdd is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,008 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Codex adapter for Software Development Department, a structured software-development workflow, while keeping its Claude Code behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting Codex sessions, choosing the right workflow phase, and mapping the project's existing SDD process to Codex.
Why use it?
It lets Codex follow the existing workflow without changing the project's Claude-specific settings or commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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/tranhieutt/software_development_department/codex-sdd
Any agent
npx skills add tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill codex-sdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,008 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01008
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00101

Measured 6d ago against content hash 00ebd0b704e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-sdd 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/codex-sdd/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex SDD

codex-sdd is the Codex adapter for the Software Development Department.

It does not replace Claude Code behavior. It helps Codex follow the existing SDD contract without changing the Claude-native runtime.

Core Rule

Treat these files as the SDD source of truth:

  1. CLAUDE.md
  2. .claude/skills/using-sdd/SKILL.md
  3. docs/technical/SDD_LIFECYCLE_MAP.md
  4. .claude/settings.json for Claude-only runtime behavior

Use using-sdd for routing. Use this skill only for Codex-specific adaptation.

Non-Impact Boundary

Do not change these for Codex-only reasons:

  • .claude/settings.json
  • .claude/hooks/
  • existing skill names or directories
  • existing agent names or files
  • Claude workflow semantics for /plan, /spec, /tdd, /context, or other SDD commands

Codex compatibility must be additive unless the user explicitly approves a broader Claude regression-tested change.

Codex Session Start

At the start of a Codex session in SDD:

  1. Read AGENTS.md.
  2. Read .claude/skills/using-sdd/SKILL.md.
  3. Use docs/technical/SDD_LIFECYCLE_MAP.md for phase orientation.
  4. Select the governing SDD skill for the user request.
  5. Remember that Claude hooks do not auto-run in Codex.

Tool Mapping

Claude-style tool Codex equivalent
Read shell read commands or direct file inspection
Glob rg --files or shell listing
Grep rg
Write apply_patch
Edit apply_patch
Bash shell_command
RunCommand shell_command
Task spawn_agent only when explicitly authorized
TodoWrite update_plan
AskUserQuestion concise direct user question
WebSearch web search only when required or explicitly requested

Manual Hook Equivalents

Claude Code hooks in .claude/settings.json do not run automatically in Codex. Use manual equivalents:

Claude behavior Codex behavior
Session bootstrap Read AGENTS.md, using-sdd, lifecycle map, and relevant memory.
Pre-code gate State the SDD pre-code gate before edits.
Bash safety Follow Codex sandbox and escalation rules.
File history Use git log -- <file> when needed.
Write logging Use git diff/status and final changed-file summary.
Circuit guard Inspect .claude/memory/circuit-state.json before subagent workflows.
Completion gate Use verification-before-completion before success claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 6d ago First seen · 122 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 00ebd0b704e5

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codex-sdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (71 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,008 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 2026-08-30.