joern-slice

joern-slice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 49 tokens per session (690 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static code slicer that uses Joern to build a code property graph, a searchable model of code structure and relationships, and extract a bounded data-flow or usage slice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for focused security or reverse-engineering work, such as tracing data flows to functions like eval or exec, finding API usages, and examining source-to-sink behavior in supported languages.
Why use it?
It provides context across functions when a syntax scan is not enough, while never executing the analyzed code or allowing the caller to supply executable Joern scripts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for focused security or reverse-engineering work, such as tracing data flows to functions like eval or exec, finding API usages, and examining source-to-sink behavior in supported languages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/batteryshark/rekit/joern-slice
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add batteryshark/rekit --skill joern-slice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 690 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 $0.00049 $0.00690
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bb1ef6f1a0aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

joern-slice 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/build.sh, scripts/check-runtime.py, scripts/run.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.

skills/joern-slice/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Joern Code Slicer

Use Joern after syntax-level inspection has identified a function, API, or behavior worth deeper analysis. It builds a code property graph (CPG), asks Joern for a bounded slice, and emits both the raw graph and a stable Rekit evidence document. This is a deeper layer than Tree-sitter, not a replacement for broad multi-language scanning.

Install

rekit install joern-slice
rekit doctor joern-slice

The explicit install step pulls the official image by immutable multi-platform digest. Analysis never pulls and always runs with Docker networking disabled.

Usage

rekit run joern-slice ./source ./out --language pythonsrc
rekit run joern-slice ./source ./out --language jssrc --mode data-flow \
  --sink-filter '.*(?:eval|exec).*'
rekit run joern-slice ./source ./out --language c --mode usages

behavior-flow is the default. Its declarative profile selects source and sink patterns without accepting executable Joern or Scala supplied by the caller. Pass a versioned profile with --profile; its schema is in assets/profile.schema.json. data-flow exposes Joern's bounded graph directly, while usages records method and type usages. Use --reuse-cpg when iterating on profiles against an already generated CPG from the same target and frontend. Reuse requires its sibling evidence.json and verifies the target manifest, frontend, and immutable image before accepting the CPG.

Every run publishes cpg.bin, raw-slice.json, and evidence.json atomically. The evidence records the target manifest digest, frontend, profile digest, image identity, coverage, graph, paths, findings, resource limits, and phase timing. Joern frontends vary: some graphs contain an explicit edge to the sink, while others end at the value selected by the sink query. Rekit labels the latter slice-selected-by-sink; it does not fabricate a reaching-definition edge.

Scope and safety

One run analyzes one frontend and one CPG. Mixed-language repositories require one run per relevant language; the results do not imply cross-language data flow. The default input bounds are 10,000 regular files and 512 MiB. Symlinks are excluded and reported. The target is copied into a temporary read-only mount. Target code is parsed but never executed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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 First seen · 63 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A bb1ef6f1a0aa

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joern-slice is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 690 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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