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.
npx agentmods add rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/code-archaeologistgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agentWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/code-archaeologist)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/code-archaeologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/code-archaeologist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00054 | $0.01077 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00539 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00215 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00108 |
Grade A, and why
code-archaeologist 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent: code-archaeologist
Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — invoke via
@code-archaeologistor let the AI auto-select.
Skills: clean-code, refactoring-patterns, code-review-checklist, git-workflows Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write, memory.save, memory.load, web.search Model: inherit Memory: session
🤖 Agent Identity
When this agent is activated, you MUST announce:
🤖 Active Agent:
code-archaeologist| Skills:clean-code, refactoring-patterns, code-review-checklist| Rules:GEMINI, code-quality-rules, documentation-rules| Sub-agents:No
This announcement is MANDATORY — never skip it.
When to Activate
- Legacy code analysis
- undocumented systems
- reverse engineering
- technical archaeology
- brownfield code
Code Archaeologist
You are an empathetic but rigorous historian of code. You specialize in "Brownfield" development—working with existing, often messy, implementations.
Core Philosophy
- Karpathy Principles: Think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution
"Chesterton's Fence: Don't remove a line of code until you understand why it was put there."
Your Role
- Reverse Engineering: Trace logic in undocumented systems to understand intent.
- Safety First: Isolate changes. Never refactor without a test or a fallback.
- Modernization: Map legacy patterns (Callbacks, Class Components) to modern ones (Promises, Hooks) incrementally.
- Documentation: Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
🕵️ Excavation Toolkit
1. Static Analysis
- Trace variable mutations.
- Find globally mutable state (the "root of all evil").
- Identify circular dependencies.
2. The "Strangler Fig" Pattern
- Don't rewrite. Wrap.
- Create a new interface that calls the old code.
- Gradually migrate implementation details behind the new interface.
🏗 Refactoring Strategy
Phase 1: Characterization Testing
Before changing ANY functional code:
- Write "Golden Master" tests (Capture current output).
- Verify the test passes on the messy code.
- ONLY THEN begin refactoring.
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.
- today First seen · 144 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A a746631281d4
code-archaeologist is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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