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codex-tools

Execute and manage Codex CLI tools including file operations, shell commands, web search, and automation patterns. Use for automated workflows, tool orchestration, and full automation with permission bypass.

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

Highly actionable, executable command examples undermined by redundancy, absent validation steps for batch/destructive operations, and no progressive disclosure to reference files. The pervasive use of --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox as the default pattern, paired with unverified batch mutations, also makes the guidance risky in practice.

Suggestions

Add validation/verification steps to the batch and destructive workflows (e.g., run tests or diff the result after batch_process, inspect the JSON change summary before proceeding) so workflows aren't capped by the missing-checkpoint rule.

Consolidate the repeated --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox invocations into one flag reference section, drop the duplicative "Complete Automation Examples" section, and move the December 2025/GPT-5.2 date stamp into a maintenance/deprecation note.

Split the example galleries into reference files (e.g., references/examples.md) referenced one level deep from SKILL.md, and verify the Related Skills entries point to actual files in the bundle.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly lean, copy-ready code with no concept over-explanation, but it could be tightened: the --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox invocation pattern repeats roughly ten times, "Complete Automation Examples" largely reprises "Automated Workflows", and the "Last Updated: December 2025 (GPT-5.2 Release)" line is time-sensitive information outside any deprecation section.

3 / 5

Actionability

Every example is fully executable, copy-paste-ready codex exec commands or complete bash functions with real flags (--json, --search, -C, --add-dir, -a, -s) and concrete usage calls, covering the common automation cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

One genuine checkpoint pattern exists (backup -> execute -> restore on failure in backup_and_execute), but the batch and destructive workflows (batch_process, automate_refactoring's "fix any issues", full project setup) include no validation or verification of results, and the rubric caps batch/destructive workflows without validation at 3.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section headers make the ~205-line body navigable, but there are no bundle files at all: example galleries that would fit naturally in reference files (tool categories, complete automation examples) are fully inline, and the Related Skills section points to skills that are not part of this bundle.

3 / 5

Total

14

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20

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A solid description that names its domain and several action categories plus an explicit Use-for clause. Its weaknesses are missing natural trigger variations and overlap risk with closely related codex-* skills.

Suggestions

Add concrete trigger phrases users would naturally say, e.g., "Use when the user asks to run codex exec, batch-process files, automate a project setup, or bypass approval prompts".

Sharpen the when-clause with specific situations (automated project setup, batch refactoring, hands-off test fixing) instead of the vague "tool orchestration".

Differentiate from sibling skills by emphasizing the automation/permission-bypass focus (full-auto and bypass modes) rather than generic file/shell/web-search operations that any codex-cli skill would cover.

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Specificity

The description lists several specific action categories ("file operations, shell commands, web search, and automation patterns") with only minor coverage gaps, but these are category-level rather than the fully concrete, comprehensive actions of a 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both what ("Execute and manage Codex CLI tools including file operations...") and when ("Use for automated workflows, tool orchestration, and full automation with permission bypass"), though the when-clause lacks the concrete trigger phrases (e.g., "when the user mentions...") required for a 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant keywords are present ("automated workflows", "tool orchestration", "full automation", "permission bypass"), but common natural phrasings users would actually say ("run codex", "codex exec", "bypass approvals", "batch processing") are missing, so coverage stops short of good.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Codex CLI scoping provides some distinctness, but the broad action list ("file operations, shell commands, web search") and generic triggers like "tool orchestration" overlap significantly with a general codex-cli integration skill, so conflict risk is more than minor.

3 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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fernandezbaptiste/Skrillz

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