gearcoleco-romhacking

gearcoleco-romhacking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drhelius/Gearcoleco. It costs 160 tokens per session (3,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A workflow for modifying and translating ColecoVision and Super Game Module ROMs, the files containing old video-game software, through the Gearcoleco emulator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for memory searches, value discovery, cheat creation, data editing, sprite and text finding, translation patching, and rewind-assisted experiments.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to find game data, test changes, and turn discoveries into cheats or translation patches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it for memory searches, value discovery, cheat creation, data editing, sprite and text finding, translation patching, and rewind-assisted experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drhelius/gearcoleco/gearcoleco-romhacking
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 drhelius/Gearcoleco --skill gearcoleco-romhacking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drhelius/Gearcoleco

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,604 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 unknown 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 $0.00160 $0.03604
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01802
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00721
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00360

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5f35852decfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gearcoleco-romhacking 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/install.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/gearcoleco-romhacking/SKILL.md · 327 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago Changed 5f35852decfe
  2. 12d ago First seen · 327 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A b66169aa4eb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gearcoleco-romhacking is a skill published in the GitHub repository drhelius/Gearcoleco (139 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 3,604 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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