Avoid Overkill plugin for Codex

减少 GPT-5.6 模型的防御性编程问题 — keep engineering and paper writing proportional to the outcome and the evidence: the smallest general solution, claim-centered prose.

How to install Avoid Overkill in Codex

1. Add the repo as a Codex plugin marketplace:

2. Install the plugin from it:

This repo ships a Codex marketplace file (.agents/plugins/marketplace.json). The first command adds it as a marketplace (Codex CLI reference); the second installs the plugin 'avoid-overkill'. 'avoid-overkill' is the marketplace name from that file. Check the repo README too. Command format: Codex CLI reference.

What it contains

Example prompts from the manifest

• Use $avoid-overkill to keep this engineering or paper-writing task proportional, evidence-grounded, and claim-centered.

About this listing

Avoid Overkill is a community plugin on GitHub by 6Kmfi6HP, tagged codex-plugin. It passed the CodexStacks quality filter (at least 10 stars, pushed in the last 180 days, not a fork, has a description and a manifest or README). OpenAI hasn't reviewed it and we haven't install-checked it. From its files we found 1 plugin. The manifest says version 0.1.0. It's one of 310 listings in the Productivity category. It also appears in best Codex plugins for research.

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Details

Type

Plugin

Category

Productivity

Source

Community

Author

6Kmfi6HP

Version

0.1.0

License

MIT

GitHub stars

11 (at last sync)

Last push

2026-08-15

Manifest

.agents/plugins/marketplace.json

GitHub topics

academic-writing, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, defensive-programming, gpt56, marketplace, overengineering, prompt-engineering, skill

Source

https://github.com/6Kmfi6HP/avoid-overkill

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