realm-fathom

realm-fathom is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from blackmo18/realm. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code investigation tool that combines the current source code with stored project notes and design records. It traces functions, classes, and systems, and reports when the stored information disagrees with the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate how a function, class, subsystem, or concept works, including its callers, data flow, error paths, and intended design.
Why use it?
It helps explain unfamiliar code and exposes outdated documentation or architectural notes before changes are made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the realm plugin — 8 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate how a function, class, subsystem, or concept works, including its callers, data flow, error paths, and intended design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blackmo18/realm/realm-fathom
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 blackmo18/realm --skill realm-fathom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blackmo18/realm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install realm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 7 agents.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,209 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 $0.00074 $0.01209
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00484
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00121

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 43c2bd8e91a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

realm-fathom 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.

skills/realm-fathom/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

realm-fathom

Investigate anything. Code truth + vault context. Drift flagged.

Host invocation: Claude Code and Gemini use /realm-fathom; Codex uses $realm-fathom.

Syntax

/realm-fathom function:validateUser          # named function
/realm-fathom class:UserService              # named class
/realm-fathom system:PaymentPipeline         # named subsystem
/realm-fathom "how does auth flow work"      # freeform question
/realm-fathom validateUser                   # bare name (auto-detect type)
/realm-fathom "payment pipeline"             # concept

Examples

/realm-fathom function:validateUser
→ Live: signature, flow, callers, error paths
→ Vault: why JWT, ADR refs, invariant notes
→ DRIFT flagged if vault says bool return but code returns Result<User>

/realm-fathom "how does the auth middleware chain work"
→ Investigator maps relevant files + functions end-to-end
→ Vault adds architectural intent, prior decisions
→ VERDICT: consolidated what + why

/realm-fathom class:PaymentService
→ Full class: responsibility, methods, deps from live code
→ Vault: why this abstraction exists, linked ADRs

Source Hierarchy

Source Authoritative for
Live code — graphify first, cavecrew-investigator as backup behavior, signatures, flow, callers, current state
Vault (indexed inline lookup) why, ADR refs, architectural intent, invariant rationale
Conflict flagged as VAULT DRIFT — never silently blended

Code truth is resolved cheapest-first: graphify's cached graph answers most queries for the cost of one graphify query call, no subagent spawn. The cavecrew-investigator crawler only runs as backup — when graphify is missing, stale (source files changed since last index), or its match is too thin to answer the query. This keeps token cost flat without losing context: the report always states which source answered (graphify vs investigator) so nothing is silently degraded.

Guards

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 125 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 43c2bd8e91a4

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realm-fathom is a skill published in the GitHub repository blackmo18/realm (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,209 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-02.

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