A guide to using the oracle command-line tool to send a prompt and selected project files to another AI model for advice. It covers model choices, saved sessions, and attaching files.

Use it to ask for help understanding or changing a codebase, preview the files and token usage, and reconnect to a long-running analysis.

It helps you give another model enough code context without manually copying files, while keeping the request focused and reviewable.

oracle — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by beita6969

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 beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill oracle

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,315 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00025	$0.01315
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.00658
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00263
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash 903a053178a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oracle 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to oracle — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/oracle/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

oracle — best use

Oracle bundles your prompt + selected files into one “one-shot” request so another model can answer with real repo context (API or browser automation). Treat output as advisory: verify against code + tests.

Main use case (browser, GPT‑5.2 Pro)

Default workflow here: --engine browser with GPT‑5.2 Pro in ChatGPT. This is the common “long think” path: ~10 minutes to ~1 hour is normal; expect a stored session you can reattach to.

Recommended defaults:

Engine: browser (--engine browser)
Model: GPT‑5.2 Pro (--model gpt-5.2-pro or --model "5.2 Pro")

Golden path

Pick a tight file set (fewest files that still contain the truth).
Preview payload + token spend (--dry-run + --files-report).
Use browser mode for the usual GPT‑5.2 Pro workflow; use API only when you explicitly want it.
If the run detaches/timeouts: reattach to the stored session (don’t re-run).

Commands (preferred)

Help:
- oracle --help
- If the binary isn’t installed: npx -y @steipete/oracle --help (avoid pnpx here; sqlite bindings).
Preview (no tokens):
- oracle --dry-run summary -p "<task>" --file "src/**" --file "!**/*.test.*"
- oracle --dry-run full -p "<task>" --file "src/**"
Token sanity:
- oracle --dry-run summary --files-report -p "<task>" --file "src/**"
Browser run (main path; long-running is normal):
- oracle --engine browser --model gpt-5.2-pro -p "<task>" --file "src/**"
Manual paste fallback:
- oracle --render --copy -p "<task>" --file "src/**"
- Note: --copy is a hidden alias for --copy-markdown.

Attaching files (`--file`)

--file accepts files, directories, and globs. You can pass it multiple times; entries can be comma-separated.

Include:
- --file "src/**"
- --file src/index.ts
- --file docs --file README.md
Exclude:
- --file "src/**" --file "!src/**/*.test.ts" --file "!**/*.snap"
Defaults (implementation behavior):
- Default-ignored dirs: node_modules, dist, coverage, .git, .turbo, .next, build, tmp (skipped unless explicitly passed as literal dirs/files).
- Honors .gitignore when expanding globs.
- Does not follow symlinks.
- Dotfiles filtered unless opted in via pattern (e.g. --file ".github/**").
- Files > 1 MB rejected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

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.

9d ago First seen · 126 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 903a053178a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oracle is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,315 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to oracle, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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