fix-unicode-decode

fix-unicode-decode is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hachiwar/codex-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (907 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for finding and fixing text-encoding errors, such as UnicodeDecodeError, UnicodeEncodeError, mojibake, and damaged Chinese text. Text encoding is the way computers store and interpret characters.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for fixing unreadable or corrupted text in Python and other coding tasks, including replacement characters and garbled Chinese strings.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose cases where files, terminal output, CSV or JSON data, HTTP responses, Git content, or subprocess streams cannot be read correctly.

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/hachiwar/codex-skills/fix-unicode-decode
Any agent
npx skills add hachiwar/codex-skills --skill fix-unicode-decode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hachiwar/codex-skills

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 fix-unicode-decode

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hachiwar/codex-skills/fix-unicode-decode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hachiwar/codex-skills/fix-unicode-decode.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 907 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00104 $0.00907
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00091

Measured 5d ago against content hash a15f67b2d6a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fix-unicode-decode scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/diagnose_encoding.py), 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
fix-unicode-decode/SKILL.md · 68 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 68 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A a15f67b2d6a8

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fix-unicode-decode is a skill published in the GitHub repository hachiwar/codex-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 907 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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