dissect

dissect is a skill for Claude Code from afaraha8403/balakit. It costs 176 tokens per session (6,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic workflow for VAN mode, a project-start process that checks the environment, files, task difficulty, and technical setup before coding.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for detecting the platform, checking essential files, assessing task complexity, and validating the technology choices.
Why use it?
It reduces setup mistakes and helps decide whether a task needs simple work or a detailed implementation plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for detecting the platform, checking essential files, assessing task complexity, and validating the technology choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/afaraha8403/balakit/dissect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add afaraha8403/balakit --skill dissect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afaraha8403/balakit

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,074 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00176 $0.06074
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.02430
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00607

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 70bbb1473136, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dissect 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/dissect/SKILL.md · 539 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 539 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dissect

Leading words: dissect, ground truth, entity-level, minimal-build, red-team, evidence-backed, stub detection, naming audit, fold test, phase separation, patch in place, circuit, autopilot, plain question.

Systematically interrogate and optimize an existing service, written plan, or system. The goal is not to rubber-stamp the current design — it is to arrive at the minimal-build plan that correctly meets the requirements, by challenging every assumption with live evidence and an adversarial review panel.

Trigger: /dissect [--circuit|--autopilot] <target> where <target> is a service name, plan file path, codebase area, or free-form description. If omitted, ask. Pace flags are optional; default is interactive (stop at every checkpoint).

dissect is the backward-looking counterpart to deep-deliberation. They share DNA — parallel read-only sub-agents, devil's-advocate red-teaming, human checkpoints, evidence over intent, and the same --circuit / --autopilot grammar — but point in opposite directions: deliberation designs what to build; dissect audits what already exists.


User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Parse a pace flag from arguments before treating the rest as <target>: --circuit, --autopilot, --auto (alias of --autopilot). Strip the flag from the target string. If both circuit and autopilot appear, autopilot wins.


Pace modes (optional)

Default is interactive: stop and wait at every checkpoint.

The user must opt in this invocation — a flag above, or an explicit phrase (circuit, autopilot, take recommended, circuit the rest, autopilot the rest). Do not infer from urgency, "just audit this", or a desire to move fast. Mid-run, the same phrases switch mode from the current checkpoint. stop circuit / stop autopilot drops back to interactive.

Mode Intermediate checkpoints (1–2) Final checkpoint (3)
interactive Stop and wait Stop and wait. Do not proceed until they ask
--circuit Auto-accept the recommended choice; log and continue Stop. Ask whether to go ahead with the final recommendation
--autopilot Auto-accept; log and continue Auto-accept. Treat the recommendation as the way to proceed

Read the full file on GitHub · 539 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 1mo ago Changed · +129 lines · +33 tokens per session 70bbb1473136
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines d53b235870e1
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 396 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A 9801ce453871

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dissect is a skill published in the GitHub repository afaraha8403/balakit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 6,074 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.