forensic-read

forensic-read is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 3243dwon/clear-eye. It costs 170 tokens per session (1,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-reading method that looks for omissions, hedged wording, hidden assumptions, and changes in tone. It treats a document like a statement to examine closely, rather than only summarising it.

In plain words
What is it for?
For examining earnings reports, proposals, witness statements, and other documents where missing information or careful wording matters.
Why use it?
It helps reveal what a text avoids saying or leaves unsupported.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/3243dwon/clear-eye/forensic-read
Any agent
npx skills add 3243dwon/clear-eye --skill forensic-read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/3243dwon/clear-eye

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,320 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 $0.00170 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00132

Measured 4d ago against content hash 48da2c03c78e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forensic-read 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

forensic-read/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forensic Read

A summary tells you what a document says. A forensic read tells you what it's avoiding saying.

Treat the text like a witness statement: assume every word was chosen on purpose, and that the choices are evidence. The goal is not paranoia — it's noticing the gap between what was stated, what was implied, and what was conspicuously left out.

Core principle

Don't ask "what does this document say?" Ask "what would I expect an honest, complete version to contain — and what's missing or hedged?"

The read process

  1. Surface read. State plainly what the document claims, in one or two sentences. This is the baseline everything else is measured against.
  2. Collect evidence. Go through the text for the tells below. Quote them. (For longer texts, run scripts/scan.py first — see below — to ground this in numbers.)
  3. Find the gap. What would a complete, candid version include that this one doesn't? Missing numbers, unnamed actors, undated promises, unanswered questions.
  4. Separate evidence from inference. Facts about the text (it hedges, it omits the salary) are evidence. What you think it means is inference. Always label which is which.
  5. Render the bottom line. One honest paragraph: what's really going on, and how confident you are.

What to hunt for

  • Hedging / weasel words — "we believe", "aims to", "up to", "many", "generally". Density of deniability.
  • Conspicuous omissions — the number that should be there and isn't; the question dodged; the actor never named.
  • Buried leads — the most important fact placed in paragraph nine, in a subordinate clause.
  • Frequency tells — what gets repeated obsessively (reassurance is often anxiety).
  • Tone shifts — where confident prose suddenly goes vague or passive. That seam is usually where the body is buried.
  • Non-answers — answering a question that wasn't asked; reframing instead of responding.
  • Passive voice that hides the actor — "mistakes were made" by whom?

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 93 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 48da2c03c78e

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forensic-read is a skill published in the GitHub repository 3243dwon/clear-eye (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 1,320 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.