salvage

salvage is a command for Claude Code from maludb/salvage-project. It costs 22 tokens per session (105 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a guided review of a project that needs to be rebuilt more simply.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps collect requirements, examine existing code, interview the project owner, and produce a rebuild specification.
Why use it?
It prevents premature code changes while the project’s requirements and problems are still being understood.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the salvage plugin — 2 skills, 1 command shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/maludb/salvage-project/salvage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maludb/salvage-project

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install salvage, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for salvage

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/maludb/salvage-project/salvage.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/maludb/salvage-project/salvage)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/maludb/salvage-project/salvage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/maludb/salvage-project/salvage.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 105 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00105
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00053
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8788f3385197, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

salvage scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/salvage.md · 10 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the salvage-project skill in salvage mode (Act 1) for the current project. Run the four-stage flow — Intake, Code archaeology, Architecture interview, Emit the bundle — asking one question at a time and writing nothing into the project until the final stage. Do not re-implement the flow here; follow the skill.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 10 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 8788f3385197

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salvage is a command published in the GitHub repository maludb/salvage-project (29 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 105 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.