Agent skill

Claudex Second Opinion

by ccplugins in ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Claudex Second Opinion

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins --skill claudex-second-opinion -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins claudex-second-opinion --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/claudex/skills/claudex-second-opinion .claude/skills/claudex-second-opinion && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
claudex-second-opinion
GitHub stars
970
Token cost
~515 tokens
SKILL.md length
254 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
68
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes.

  • A significant implementation
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to suggest, When to stay quiet and How to suggest
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Security-sensitive change

What it does

Claudex Second Opinion is an agent skill from ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins. Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes. Use when a significant implementation, refactor, security-sensitive change, or uncertain bug fix has just been completed and is about to be committed or shipped. Advisory only — it recommends running /claudex:verdict; it never invokes Codex on its own.

Its SKILL.md is about 520 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Debugging and Refactoring. The repository describes itself as: Awesome Claude Code plugins — a curated list of slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks for Claude Code. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • A significant implementation
  • Security-sensitive change
  • Uncertain bug fix has just been completed and is about to be committed

Example prompts

  • “Use the claudex-second-opinion skill to suggest a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes”
  • “/claudex-second-opinion”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5bd4f16. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Claudex Second Opinion loads about 515 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 254 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~515

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins at commit 5bd4f16, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ccplugins). 254 words, ~515 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/claudex-second-opinion/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
claudex-second-opinion
description
Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes. Use when a significant implementation, refactor, security-sensitive change, or uncertain bug fix has just been completed and is about to be committed or shipped. Advisory only — it recommends running /claudex:verdict; it never invokes Codex on its own.

ClauDex Second Opinion

Overview

When a change is substantial or risky, suggest a cross-model review with /claudex:verdict. Two frontier models trained by rival labs have different blind spots — when both flag the same line it's the strongest free review signal there is, and where they disagree is exactly where a human should look.

Hard rule: never run codex yourself under this skill. A cross-model review spends the user's Codex quota and adds real latency. Explicit invocation is consent — your job here is one well-timed suggestion, nothing more.

When to suggest

  • The change touches auth, payments, data deletion, migrations, concurrency, or crypto
  • A multi-file refactor or roughly 150+ changed lines
  • A bug fix where the root cause was never fully confirmed
  • The user sounds unsure ("I think this works", "hopefully that's it")
  • The user is weighing an architectural choice before code exists — then the right suggestion is /claudex:debate <the decision>, not a verdict (a debate needs a question, not a diff)

When to stay quiet

  • Trivial or mechanical changes: docs, formatting, renames, config bumps
  • As far as you can tell from the visible conversation, a ClauDex command already ran on this diff (best-effort — don't re-suggest what the user just did)
  • The Codex CLI isn't installed — at most, mention /claudex:setup once in the visible conversation, then drop it

How to suggest

One line, at the end of your reply, naming the specific risk. Never more than one suggestion per change, never as an interruption:

This touched the payment webhook — worth a cross-model check: /claudex:verdict payments flow

© ccplugins, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/claudex/skills/claudex-second-opinion of ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5bd4f16

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Categories

Questions about Claudex Second Opinion

What does Claudex Second Opinion do?

Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes. Claudex Second Opinion is an agent skill from ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins. Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes.

When should I use Claudex Second Opinion?

Claudex Second Opinion fits situations like: A significant implementation; security-sensitive change; uncertain bug fix has just been completed and is about to be committed.

How do I install Claudex Second Opinion in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins --skill claudex-second-opinion -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/claudex/skills/claudex-second-opinion in ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins) into .claude/skills/claudex-second-opinion in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Claudex Second Opinion in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins --skill claudex-second-opinion -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/claudex/skills/claudex-second-opinion in ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins) into .agents/skills/claudex-second-opinion in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Claudex Second Opinion in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins --skill claudex-second-opinion -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/claudex-second-opinion, .gemini/skills/claudex-second-opinion, .github/skills/claudex-second-opinion and .opencode/skills/claudex-second-opinion in your project.

What does Claudex Second Opinion need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Claudex Second Opinion is instructions for the agent only.

Does Claudex Second Opinion access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Claudex Second Opinion safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Claudex Second Opinion use?

Claudex Second Opinion is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Claudex Second Opinion use?

About 515 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Claudex Second Opinion?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Claudex Second Opinion: Code Review Graph Navigator (handsontable/handsontable, 22k stars), Analyze Project (lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills, 497 stars), Andrej Karpathy Skill (duolahypercho/andrej-karpathy-skills, 249 stars) and Verdaccio Change Implementation (verdaccio/verdaccio, 18k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Claudex Second Opinion?

ccplugins (a GitHub organization) maintains it in ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins, which has 970 GitHub stars. The repository holds 68 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 12, 2026.

Source: ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.