ebctf-decode

A local text decoder for identifying and reversing encodings and simple ciphers, such as Base64, hexadecimal, Caesar shifts, and Morse code. CTF means capture the flag, a type of security puzzle where hidden messages and clues must be solved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect suspicious encoded strings, identify their format, decode them, or run a named encoding operation with custom settings.
Why use it?
It helps when a text string is unreadable and you do not know how it was transformed. It can first suggest likely encoding types or try several decoding methods.

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/henglie/ebctfcodebox/ebctf-decode
Any agent
npx skills add Henglie/EBCTFCodeBox --skill ebctf-decode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Henglie/EBCTFCodeBox

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,014 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 $0.00100 $0.01014
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash cc1d26beff99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ebctf-decode 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (decode.mjs), 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/ebctf-decode/SKILL.md · 93 lines

What it actually says

EBCTF 解码技能

恒烈CTF编码工具箱(EBCTFCodeBox)的对外解码能力。纯本地 Node 进程,零外发。 底层复用工具箱能力面单一事实源(MCP_TOOLS / callMcpTool),零重写解码逻辑。

何时用

  • 用户贴出疑似被编码的文本,问「这是什么 / 帮我解一下」
  • 用户点名某种编码要 encode / decode
  • 需要先判断「这是什么编码」再决定怎么解
  • CTF 解题中遇到不认识的编码串

六个子命令

结果走 stdout,未知命令/缺参打印用法到 stderr 并 exit 1。

1. magic — 一键智能解码(最常用)

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs magic "SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ="
node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs magic "..." --crib="flag\{" --depth=3 --intensive
  • --crib=xxx 已知明文片段/正则,命中加权
  • --depth=N 最大链式解码层数(默认 1,多层传 3)
  • --intensive 开 1-byte XOR + 位旋转暴力

2. detect — 智能识别编码类型(不解码)

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs detect "SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=" --limit=10

返回按置信度(0~1)排序的候选类型。判断「这是什么」时用,随后再 run/magic 解。

3. cats — 列分类

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs cats

列出全部功能分类(Base/文本/花式/古典/现代加密/哈希/进制/分析/隐写等),含每类 op 数。先看全景再下钻。

4. list — 列 op(可过滤)

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs list base
node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs list --cat=classic
  • 位置参数 = 关键词(匹配 id/名称/分类)
  • --cat=分类id 按分类精确过滤(分类 id 见 cats)

每条含 id、分类、名称、方向(encode/decode/run)、是否带参(hasParams)。

5. schema — 查 op 参数

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs schema caesar

查指定 op 的参数 schema(key/类型/默认值/可选项)与支持方向。跑带参 op 前先用它了解怎么填 --params。

6. run — 精确跑 op

node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs run base64 "SGVsbG8=" decode
node skills/ebctf-decode/decode.mjs run caesar "Khoor" decode --params='{"shift":3}'
  • 第 3 位置参数 = 方向 encode/decode/run(缺省自动)
  • --params='{"k":v}' 自定义参数(JSON 字符串,解析成对象传入;不合法给清晰报错)。未给的 key 用默认值,key 见 schema。

输出解读

magic 返回按置信度排序的候选,每条含解码链路 + conf%:

#1 [base64] conf=99% : Hello world
#2 [base64 > rot13] conf=40% : ...

取 #1,语义不通就看后续。链路里的 > 表示多层解码顺序。

detect 返回 candidates 数组(id/cat/name/confidence),置信度高的更可能。

cats/list/schema 返回 JSON,直接读字段。run 直接输出结果文本。

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 93 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A cc1d26beff99

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ebctf-decode is a skill published in the GitHub repository Henglie/EBCTFCodeBox (117 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,014 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 2026-08-30.

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