analyze-misfires

analyze-misfires is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 26 tokens per session (142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for investigating why the wrong Whetstone skills were added to an agent request.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing skill-selection mistakes and applying the project's investigation process to a reported misfire.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose triggers that are too broad or that inject unrelated skills into a task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It is for reviewing skill-selection mistakes and applying the project's investigation process to a reported misfire.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/whetstone/analyze-misfires
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 iliaal/whetstone --skill analyze-misfires
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 142 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 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 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00142
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00057
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00014

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 79e1204f19f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-misfires 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/analyze-misfires/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

analyze-misfires

Read the Codex adaptation, then read the complete maintained workflow before acting. Apply that workflow to the current request with its scope and approval boundaries intact.

Use the text following $analyze-misfires as the workflow's $ARGUMENTS. When selected from a natural-language request, derive arguments only from the user's stated scope; apply the workflow's missing-argument behavior for anything unspecified.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 79e1204f19f3

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analyze-misfires is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 142 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-09.

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