audit-context-building

audit-context-building is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DJRHails/dotfiles. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,155 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of audit-context-building, MIT.

A method for building very detailed architectural understanding of a codebase before looking for bugs or security weaknesses. It traces code line by line and connects small details to larger system behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare for security audits, architecture reviews, threat modelling, and later bug-finding work; it does not itself recommend fixes or rate vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
It reduces guesses and missed assumptions when a system is complex or when a security review needs a reliable picture of how the code works.

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/djrhails/dotfiles/audit-context-building
Any agent
npx skills add DJRHails/dotfiles --skill audit-context-building
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DJRHails/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for audit-context-building

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00027 $0.02155
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00215

Measured 4d ago against content hash c8a4b91af597, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-context-building 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 4d 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

94% identical to audit-context-building — 28 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.

modules/agents/skills/audit-context-building/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Context Builder Skill (Ultra-Granular Pure Context Mode)

1. Purpose

This skill governs how Claude thinks during the context-building phase of an audit.

When active, Claude will:

  • Perform line-by-line / block-by-block code analysis by default.
  • Apply First Principles, 5 Whys, and 5 Hows at micro scale.
  • Continuously link insights → functions → modules → entire system.
  • Maintain a stable, explicit mental model that evolves with new evidence.
  • Identify invariants, assumptions, flows, and reasoning hazards.

This skill defines a structured analysis format (see Example: Function Micro-Analysis below) and runs before the vulnerability-hunting phase.


2. When to Use This Skill

Use when:

  • Deep comprehension is needed before bug or vulnerability discovery.
  • You want bottom-up understanding instead of high-level guessing.
  • Reducing hallucinations, contradictions, and context loss is critical.
  • Preparing for security auditing, architecture review, or threat modeling.

Do not use for:

  • Vulnerability findings
  • Fix recommendations
  • Exploit reasoning
  • Severity/impact rating

3. How This Skill Behaves

When active, Claude will:

  • Default to ultra-granular analysis of each block and line.
  • Apply micro-level First Principles, 5 Whys, and 5 Hows.
  • Build and refine a persistent global mental model.
  • Update earlier assumptions when contradicted ("Earlier I thought X; now Y.").
  • Periodically anchor summaries to maintain stable context.
  • Avoid speculation; express uncertainty explicitly when needed.

Goal: deep, accurate understanding, not conclusions.


Rationalizations (Do Not Skip)

Rationalization Why It's Wrong Required Action
"I get the gist" Gist-level understanding misses edge cases Line-by-line analysis required
"This function is simple" Simple functions compose into complex bugs Apply 5 Whys anyway
"I'll remember this invariant" You won't. Context degrades. Write it down explicitly
"External call is probably fine" External = adversarial until proven otherwise Jump into code or model as hostile
"I can skip this helper" Helpers contain assumptions that propagate Trace the full call chain
"This is taking too long" Rushed context = hallucinated vulnerabilities later Slow is fast

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 305 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c8a4b91af597

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit-context-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository DJRHails/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to audit-context-building, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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