cli-audit-tangle

A code-structure analyzer that maps how functions and modules depend on one another. It looks for tangled structures such as oversized functions, circular dependencies, unused code, and blocked delivery pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate spaghetti code, find dependency cycles, identify safe module boundaries, locate dead code, and improve inefficient call or CI/CD patterns.
Why use it?
It reveals structural problems that line-count checks and ordinary style linters may not show.

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/destynova2/cli-code-skills/cli-audit-tangle
Any agent
npx skills add Destynova2/cli-code-skills --skill cli-audit-tangle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Destynova2/cli-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 220 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,694 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 $0.00220 $0.05694
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.02847
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.01139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00569

Measured 2d ago against content hash a120ec9540f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-audit-tangle 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 2d 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.

cli-audit-tangle/SKILL.md · 455 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 455 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimization: This skill uses on-demand loading. Heavy content lives in references/ and is loaded only when needed.

Language rule: Skill instructions are written in English. When generating user-facing output (reports, files, documentation), detect the project's primary language (from README, comments, docs, commit messages) and produce the output in that language. If the project is bilingual, ask the user which language to use before proceeding.

Audit Tangle — Code Topology Untangler

Detect structural spaghetti using call graph analysis, spectral graph theory, and network physics. Goes beyond line-level linters to find topological problems: god functions, circular dependencies, dead nodes, and suboptimal module cuts.

"Topoisomerase does not see the content of DNA — it sees its shape. A knot is a knot, whatever gene it carries."

Biological & physical mechanisms

Source Mechanism What it does in code analysis
Topoisomerase (enzyme) Cuts DNA strands at knot points, passes strands through, re-ligates Finds the optimal cut points in tangled call graphs. Type I = minor refactor (extract function). Type II = major restructuring (split module)
Fire ants (Solenopsis) Form living rafts by linking bodies — each ant grips exactly 2 neighbors. If one ant grips 12, the raft collapses Detects god functions — nodes that grip too many neighbors. The raft (codebase) is fragile at those points
Railway deadlock Two trains on a single track facing each other — neither can advance Detects CI/CD deadlocks — job A needs B, job B needs A
Tangled polymer Longer polymer chains = higher viscosity = slower system Measures codebase viscosity — deep dependency chains = every change touches 10 files
Jellyfish Tentacles don't tangle thanks to mucus (reduced friction) Interfaces are the mucus — reduce coupling friction between modules

Read the full file on GitHub · 455 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 455 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A a120ec9540f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-audit-tangle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Destynova2/cli-code-skills (5 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 5,694 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.