chimera-ground-it-in-the-source

chimera-ground-it-in-the-source is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brcampidelli/chimera-agent. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A verification habit for checking the actual version and interface of a library, framework, or command-line tool before using it. The interface includes names, options, settings, and returned data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when integrating an unfamiliar dependency or command. It helps inspect the installed version, available options, and exact function or command signatures before coding.
Why use it?
Memory and online examples may describe a different version or an API that does not exist. Reading the installed software prevents plausible-looking calls from failing later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when integrating an unfamiliar dependency or command. It helps inspect the installed version, available options, and exact function or command signatures before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brcampidelli/chimera-agent/chimera-ground-it-in-the-source
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add brcampidelli/chimera-agent --skill chimera-ground-it-in-the-source
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brcampidelli/chimera-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9a51bb6b117c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chimera-ground-it-in-the-source 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 11d 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/chimera-ground-it-in-the-source/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trigger

You are about to write a call into someone else's library, framework or CLI: a method name, a keyword argument, a config key, the shape of a return value, a flag. This applies most sharply when recall feels confident, because confidence is produced the same way whether or not the API exists.

It does not apply to the language's own builtins you exercise constantly, and it is not an instruction to fetch documentation before writing dict.get. The line is whether being wrong would be caught immediately by the next thing you run.

Do

  1. Get the version that is actually installed, not the one you remember reading about: uv pip show <pkg>, or python -c "import pkg; print(pkg.__version__)".
  2. Read the installed thing. python -c "import inspect, pkg; print(inspect.signature(pkg.fn))", or open the file under site-packages, or run --help on the binary that is on PATH. This is the authority, because it is the code that will execute.
  3. When you use a blog post, a README on the web, or your own recall, treat it as a hypothesis and confirm it against step 2. Docs sites describe the latest release; your lockfile may not pin it.
  4. Exercise the call once in a throwaway snippet and print the actual return value before writing code that indexes into your assumption of it. Nested shapes — ["choices"][0]["message"] — are where memory is least reliable and least likely to fail loudly.
  5. Leave the evidence next to the code: the version, and the signature or help output you read. A comment or the PR body is enough, and it tells the next reader what the code was written against.

Avoid

Writing API-shaped text. The failure is not a typo — a typo raises immediately and gets fixed in seconds. It is a name that obeys every one of the library's naming conventions and does not exist:

A real one from this repository, and the shape is the point — the guess was not absurd, it was reasonable:

# Plausible: snapshots live in checkpoint.py, so the diff of two snapshots should too.
from chimera.core.checkpoint import WorkspaceGuard, diff_snapshots   # ImportError

# Where it actually is. One grep, before writing the line, would have found it.
from chimera.core.checkpoint import WorkspaceGuard
from chimera.evolution.diff_gate import diff_snapshots

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 95 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9a51bb6b117c

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chimera-ground-it-in-the-source is a skill published in the GitHub repository brcampidelli/chimera-agent (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,078 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.