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by timwuhaotian · Codex Skill · ★ 360
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The Pair Automated pair programming — grab a coffee while two AI agents cross-check each other's work, built by itself 🌐 Eng
| Stars | 360 |
| Forks | 27 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | Codex Skill |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Quality Score | 72.0007968762899/100 |
| Open Issues | 2 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-10 |
| Created | 2026-03-22 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli, codex, gemini, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~18k |
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the-pair is Open-source AI pair programming for desktop: a Mentor + Executor agent cross-check each other's code to catch AI hallucinations. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini & opencode. macOS / Windows / Lin. It is categorized as a Codex Skill with 360 GitHub stars.
the-pair is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as ai, ai-agents, ai-code-review.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the the-pair GitHub repository at github.com/timwuhaotian/the-pair. The project has 360 stars and 27 forks, indicating an active community.
the-pair is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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