codexspec:review-design

codexspec:review-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zts0hg/codexspec. It costs 23 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review add-on that checks whether a software design matches the stated requirements, is feasible, and is ready for implementation planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review requirements and design documents before turning the design into an implementation plan.
Why use it?
It reveals mismatches, impractical decisions, and missing preparation before coding starts. It uses the requirements, specification, design, project constitution, and relevant repository files as evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/zts0hg/codexspec/codexspec-review-design
Any agent
npx skills add Zts0hg/codexspec --skill codexspec-review-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zts0hg/codexspec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 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 $0.00023 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 3d ago against content hash ee9dd01d79f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codexspec:review-design 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.

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.

.agents/skills/codexspec-review-design/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Reviewer

Language Preference

Read .codexspec/config.yml. Two independent language controls apply (each falls back to language.output, then English):

  • Interaction language (language.interaction): language for all conversation with the user — questions, explanations, status messages, and codexspec CLI terminal output.
  • Document language (language.document): language for generated artifact files (requirements/spec/plan/tasks).

Converse in the interaction language and author artifacts in the document language. Apply the project's translation standard to both: translate by meaning (not word-for-word), keep English for terms with no good native equivalent, and write as if originally in that language.

User Input

the text after the $codexspec:review-design skill mention

Review Authority

Resolve by explicit path, then current branch; never silently select the latest feature.

Read requirements.md, spec.md, design.md, the constitution, and only the repository files necessary to verify design claims.

If requirements.md is absent, use legacy spec-only mode and disclose that original-discussion fidelity cannot be verified.

Authority order:

  1. Confirmed requirements
  2. Specification
  3. Constitution and verified repository facts
  4. Design-level technical decisions
  5. Applicable best practices

Review Passes

1. Fidelity and Coverage

  • Verify every REQ/NFR has design coverage.
  • Verify each component, interface, data change, and design decision has Covers:.
  • Detect omitted behavior, semantic changes, scope expansion, and design decisions that override confirmed trade-offs.
  • Verify design-level assumptions remain labeled and do not become product requirements.

2. Feasibility and Internal Quality

Report evidence-backed defects such as:

  • Referencing nonexistent modules, APIs, paths, or capabilities
  • Contradictory component responsibilities or interfaces
  • Missing design decisions that genuinely block planning
  • Invalid data, compatibility, security, or interface assumptions
  • Complexity that creates concrete risk without serving a confirmed requirement

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 3d ago Changed · +7 tokens per session ee9dd01d79f8
  2. 6d ago First seen · 130 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A f7ba29e932dd

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codexspec:review-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zts0hg/codexspec (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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