chisle-audit

chisle-audit is a skill for Claude Code from JayPokale/Chisle. It costs 130 tokens per session (687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review that looks for unnecessary complexity in code and unnecessary length in documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run it on a file, diff, directory, or repository to find code and documentation that may be overbuilt or padded.
Why use it?
It identifies abstractions, dependencies, configuration, comments, and prose that can be removed without changing the intended work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the Chisle plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Run it on a file, diff, directory, or repository to find code and documentation that may be overbuilt or padded.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaypokale/chisle/chisle-audit
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 JayPokale/Chisle --skill chisle-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayPokale/Chisle

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Chisle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00130 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash b1fead30541d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chisle-audit 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 9d 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.

skills/chisle-audit/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chisle Audit

Scan the target (a diff, a file, or the repo tree) and report what to cut, on both axes. One-shot. Read-only — never edit, never write a flag, never apply fixes.

Scope

  • No argument → audit the current git diff (staged + unstaged). Empty diff → audit HEAD~1..HEAD.
  • A path → audit that file or directory.
  • "repo" / "whole repo" → walk the tree (skip vendored/generated/node_modules/dist/lockfiles).

What to flag

Code (the YAGNI axis):

  • Reinvented stdlib (hand-rolled debounce, deep-clone, groupBy, retry loop, date math)
  • Abstraction with one implementation (interface/factory/wrapper for a single case)
  • New dependency for what a few lines or an installed dep already covers
  • Config/option/flag that never varies
  • Speculative "for later" scaffolding with no current caller
  • Verbose code where a native platform feature (CSS, DB constraint, <input type>) does it

Prose (the compression axis) — the half a code-only auditor misses:

  • Comments that restate the code (i += 1 // increment i)
  • Docstrings/READMEs padded with filler, hedging, ceremony, or duplicated content
  • Multi-paragraph explanations where one tight sentence carries the meaning
  • Decorative tables/emoji/headings that add tokens, not information
  • Dead prose: TODO graveyards, stale "see also" links, obsolete sections

What NOT to flag

Input validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, security, accessibility, deliberate // chisle: / // ponytail: shortcuts already documented, or domain comments that explain why (not what).

Output

One ranked list, biggest cut first. One finding per line. No preamble, no praise.

path:line  [code|prose]  <what's bloated> → <the lean replacement>. (~N lines/tokens)

End with a two-line summary:

N findings: X code, Y prose. Est. removable: ~A lines code, ~B lines prose.
Biggest win: <the single highest-impact cut>.

Be honest about uncertainty — mark a finding (check) if cutting it might lose behavior you can't verify from the snippet. Lean toward fewer, high-confidence findings over a long speculative list.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A b1fead30541d

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chisle-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayPokale/Chisle (106 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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