pyinstaller-extract

pyinstaller-extract is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 82 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only extractor for standalone programs built with PyInstaller, a tool that bundles Python code into an executable. It pulls out the bundled files and Python bytecode, which is compiled Python code, without launching the program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a PyInstaller executable to recover its modules, data, native libraries, and individual .pyc files, especially before using a Python bytecode decompiler.
Why use it?
It lets you inspect the Python inside an executable when the original source is unavailable. The extracted bytecode can then be converted back into readable Python source for review.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for pyinstaller-extract

README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00082 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00052

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9fc6d97d9a53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pyinstaller-extract 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/extract.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/pyinstaller-extract/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

PyInstaller Extractor

Carve the Python back out of a PyInstaller executable. Pure-stdlib, static, read-only. The first half of the Python-from-a-binary chain: pyinstaller-extractpyc-decompilepy-covert-scan.

When to use

A suspicious standalone executable that's actually a frozen Python app (PyInstaller is the most common packer for Python malware). This pulls the bundled .pyc modules out so you can decompile and read them — without running the binary.

What it does

  • Finds the PyInstaller CArchive appended to the executable (the MEI cookie), reads its table of contents, and extracts every entry (modules, data, bundled native libs) to the output dir.
  • Unpacks the inner PYZ archive into individual .pyc files under PYZ-contents/, reconstructing each header from the PYZ's embedded magic so a decompiler can read them.
  • Reports the target Python version and entry types.

Static: it parses byte structures and marshal.loads the PYZ TOC (that's deserialization, not execution — code objects are never run). It never launches the executable or imports any extracted module.

Usage

rekit run pyinstaller-extract ./suspicious.exe ./out
# then decompile the recovered modules:
rekit run pyc-decompile ./out/PYZ-contents/app.pyc ./src

Non-PyInstaller input → {"isPyInstaller": false, "note": "…"}.

Prerequisites

  • python3 ≥ 3.8 — pure stdlib, nothing to vendor.

Note

Decompilation of the recovered .pyc is pyc-decompile's job and works best on CPython 3.7–3.8 targets; newer bytecode extracts fine here but may be out of the decompiler's range (it will say so).

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. 5d ago First seen · 51 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 9fc6d97d9a53

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pyinstaller-extract is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (11 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 522 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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