/codex review errors on codex-cli >= 0.130.0 — `--base` and PROMPT now mutually exclusive

[wyatt-paxiv]

Repro

$ codex --version
codex-cli 0.130.0

$ codex review "boundary instruction here" --base main -c 'model_reasoning_effort="high"' --enable web_search_cached
error: the argument '[PROMPT]' cannot be used with '--base <BRANCH>'

Usage: codex review --config <key=value> --enable <FEATURE> <PROMPT>

codex review --help confirms the new constraint:

Arguments: [PROMPT] Custom review instructions. If - is used, read from stdin

Options: --uncommitted | --base <BRANCH> | --commit <SHA>

--base, --commit, --uncommitted, and [PROMPT] are now mutually exclusive scope selectors.

Affected file

codex/SKILL.md — Step 2A (Review Mode):

codex review "IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any files under ~/.claude/, ~/.agents/, .claude/skills/, or agents/. ..." --base <base> -c 'model_reasoning_effort="high"' --enable web_search_cached

This invocation always errors on codex-cli >= 0.130.0. Step 2B (Challenge) and 2C (Consult) use codex exec with the prompt as a positional arg, which still works — only codex review is affected.

Suggested fix

The boundary instruction is no longer compatible with --base as a positional arg. Drop the prompt arg in Step 2A. codex review --base main already scopes Codex to the diff, and the skill already runs in cd "$_REPO_ROOT" so Codex's sandbox is the repo anyway — the boundary "don't wander into ~/.claude/" is largely unnecessary in scoped-diff mode.

codex review --base "$BASE" -c 'model_reasoning_effort="high"'

(Piping the boundary via stdin using - also looks blocked — --help still shows --base and PROMPT as mutually exclusive even with -. Drop-the-prompt is the safe path.)

Version-bad-list update

Consider adding >= 0.130.0 to the known-incompatible range in bin/gstack-codex-probe's known-bad list until SKILL.md is patched.

Environment

• macOS (darwin 25.4.0), zsh
• gstack 1.33.2.0
• codex-cli 0.130.0
• gtimeout from Homebrew coreutils available