What is codex-claude-worker?

A workflow for turning a natural-language coding request into a limited task for Claude Code, while Codex or ChatGPT supervises the work.

Use it to inspect a repository, prepare bounded worker prompts, run approved tasks, read worker summaries, and start a focused fix when validation finds a defect.

It defines the worker's scope, forbidden actions, expected files, and checks, then requires the supervisor to review the result independently.

codex-claude-worker — Skill for Codex by zhuzai-2007

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 zhuzai-2007/claude-code-mcp-harness --skill codex-claude-worker

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhuzai-2007/claude-code-mcp-harness

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 986 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00086	$0.00986
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00394
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00197
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00099

Measured 2mo ago against content hash faaf7c99cc42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-claude-worker 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-harness.ps1), 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.

skills/codex-claude-worker/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Claude Worker

Use this skill when Codex or ChatGPT is the main reasoning agent and Claude Code is a bounded local worker. The common input is a normal user prompt, not a complete specification. Treat the harness as a policy and workflow boundary, not an OS sandbox.

Operating Model

Translate the user's natural-language request into a concrete worker task: goal, target path, deliverables, forbidden actions, acceptance checks, and budget.
Inspect the repo and choose the smallest safe worker boundary.
Use plan for read-only orientation when task scope or write boundary is uncertain.
Use run only with explicit approval metadata and a bounded prompt.
Read summary.ps1, worker-result.normalized.json, and the ledger after every run.
Independently validate worker output before reporting success, including artifact_status and supervisor_notes when the worker failed or hit budget.
Start a separate fix run when validation finds a concrete defect.

Prefer direct PowerShell harness use first. Treat the MCP bridge as optional transport, not the only interface.

Auto-Run Rules

Auto-run is acceptable only for small tasks that create or modify files under one new directory such as workspace/<task-id>/.

Require a second user confirmation before run mode when the task touches existing source, .agents/, mcp-server/, scripts/, config files, package files, lockfiles, dependencies, network, deletion, git operations, broad scans, long tasks, or ambiguous write boundaries.

Always include these boundaries in worker prompts:

Only create or modify files under <bounded-path>.
Do not modify .agents/, mcp-server/, scripts/, .git/, config files, package files, or lockfiles.
Do not access the network.
Do not install dependencies.
Do not delete files outside <bounded-path>.
Do not run git commands.
Return concise JSON with summary, files_read, changes_made, commands_run, tests_or_checks, risks, blocked_on.

Prompt Translation

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A faaf7c99cc42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-claude-worker is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhuzai-2007/claude-code-mcp-harness (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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