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Pi Ask Codex — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Ask Codex CLI a question — get OpenAI's perspective alongside Claude's.

How to install Pi Ask Codex

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/tznthou-claude-prism-pi-ask-codex/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/tznthou-claude-prism-pi-ask-codex && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tznthou/claude-prism/HEAD/commands/pi-ask-codex.md -o ~/.claude/skills/tznthou-claude-prism-pi-ask-codex/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Pi Ask Codex does

command: pi-ask-codex description: Ask Codex CLI a question — get OpenAI's perspective alongside Claude's

Ask Codex

Forward the user's question to Codex CLI, get OpenAI's perspective.

Execution

**Bash invocation rules (v0.12.3+)**: Call `call-codex.sh` / `call-gemini.sh` in **foreground synchronous mode** with `timeout: 600000` (Bash tool's 10-minute ceiling). **Do not** use `&`, **do not** set `run_in_background: true`, **do not** use `nohup` — Claude Code 2026-04+ has an aut

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