unravel

unravel is a skill for Claude Code from Alexander-Tyagunov/magician. It costs 43 tokens per session (158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step debugging workflow that requires a proposed explanation and supporting evidence before changing code, then tests each change and checks for regressions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a bug, test failure, or other unexpected result.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork and makes it easier to identify the real cause of bugs, failed tests, and unexpected behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the magician plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a bug, test failure, or other unexpected result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/unravel
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 Alexander-Tyagunov/magician --skill unravel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-Tyagunov/magician

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install magician, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 10 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for unravel

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 158 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 $0.00043 $0.00158
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00016

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8e048a92f517, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unravel 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 12d 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.

.codex-plugin/skills/unravel/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

$unravel — Codex Adapter

Read ../../references/codex-adapter.md, then read ../../../skills/unravel/SKILL.md and follow the source skill through that Codex adapter. Keep the source skill's gates, safety checks, and completion criteria.

For reproductions or watchers that remain running, retain the exec_command session and poll with write_stdin; there is no separate Monitor tool. Stop a process only through its session and only when doing so is within the requested diagnostic scope.

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. 12d ago First seen · 11 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8e048a92f517

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unravel is a skill published in the GitHub repository Alexander-Tyagunov/magician (14 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 158 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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