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blader/arbitrage

Arbitrage is an MIT-licensed Claude Code skill (also installable into Codex via the same clone path) that exploits the price gap between a premium model and an idle codex quota: the premium model keeps the judgment work (planning, specs, architecture, visual validation, diff review) and dispatches every line of implementation to a codex CLI running in the background. The skill forbids predicting t

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Score7.3
Popularity60.0
Risknone
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness7.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum6.0
Maturity6.6
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.8
Setup ease8.8

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Why it matters

Useful for developers running Claude Code with a codex subscription who want to stop burning premium tokens on the parts of the job a cheaper agent already does fine. Clone the repo into `~/.claude/skills/arbitrage` (or `~/.codex/skills/arbitrage`), enable the skill, and watch the premium model hand all code-writing to codex while it stays focused on planning and review.

Who should use it

developers running Claude Code with a codex subscription who want to stop burning premium tokens on code-typingteams who want a spec-first split where the premium model owns planning + review and a cheaper model owns implementationagent developers who want a SKILL.md pattern that dispatches implementation to `codex exec` in the backgroundanyone who wants a two-strikes escape hatch that takes work back when the cheaper model misses the bar

Who should skip it

Skip if the source link, docs, or setup requirements do not match your workflow.

Risk explanation

No inherent user-impacting risk is flagged from the captured evidence.

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