scorched-earth

scorched-earth is a skill for Claude Code from catcatcatstudio/cat-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (4,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A very thorough investigation mode that examines every relevant file, section, or source in a project or research task. It tracks progress and records findings as it works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exhaustively inspecting codebases, references, URLs, and research topics.
Why use it?
It is intended for situations where missing one issue or detail would matter more than spending extra time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Exhaustively inspecting codebases, references, URLs, and research topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills/scorched-earth
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 catcatcatstudio/cat-skills --skill scorched-earth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,655 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 $0.00091 $0.04655
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02328
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00931
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00466

Measured 11d ago against content hash 796d1aedc8dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scorched-earth 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.

.agents/skills/scorched-earth/SKILL.md · 409 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scorched Earth

Unrelentingly, obsessively thorough analysis. This skill exists for one reason: to make absolutely certain nothing is missed. Not "pretty thorough." Not "good enough." Every file, every function, every claim, every detail — examined, verified, logged.

This is the skill you reach for when the cost of missing something is higher than the cost of being slow. It will take too long. It will find things you didn't ask about. It will be almost annoying in its thoroughness. That's the point.


The Rules

These rules override every default behavior. They exist because LLMs are trained to be convenient, fast, and concise. This skill is none of those things.

What you MUST do

  1. Enumerate before you examine. List everything first — every file, every section, every source. Create a task for each. Then examine them one by one. Never start analyzing until you know the full surface area.

  2. Track your progress. Use tasks. Every area to examine gets a task. Mark it in-progress when you start, completed when you finish. If the task list is empty and you haven't examined everything, something is wrong.

  3. Write findings to disk incrementally. Never hold findings only in context. After examining each zone or source, append findings to the report file on disk immediately. Context can compact at any time — what's on disk survives.

  4. Be specific or be silent. Every finding must name the exact file, the exact line, the exact function, the exact problem, and the exact fix. "This area could use improvement" is not a finding. "Line 47 of auth.ts: the JWT expiry check uses < instead of <=, which means tokens are rejected 1 second before they actually expire — change to <=" is a finding.

  5. Go until you're done, not until it feels like enough. The completion gate for each mode is defined below. You are not done until every condition is met. If you've been running for an hour and there's still unchecked surface area, keep going.

What you MUST NOT do

Read the full file on GitHub · 409 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 · 409 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 796d1aedc8dc

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scorched-earth is a skill published in the GitHub repository catcatcatstudio/cat-skills (3 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 4,655 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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