billy

billy is a skill for Claude Code from lexfrei/ccc. It costs 0 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

An investigation skill for checking whether a technical claim is true. It gathers evidence from commands, logs, code, or APIs and reports what the evidence shows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate claims such as a stopped service, a failing endpoint, a production migration problem, or a memory leak.
Why use it?
It replaces assumptions about failures or incidents with verified findings, without changing the system under investigation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the billy plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate claims such as a stopped service, a failing endpoint, a production migration problem, or a memory leak.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lexfrei/ccc/billy
View source ↗ lexfrei/ccc
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 lexfrei/ccc --skill billy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lexfrei/ccc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install billy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 billy

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for billy

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 41
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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 $0.00000 $0.00751
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00300
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8c5a1c5f99de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

billy 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Network**: `curl` endpoints, check connectivity, DNS resolution, port availability
skills/billy/skills/billy/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Where's the proof, Billy? We need proof!

Someone made a claim. Stop everything and investigate. No proof — no trust.

Input

The argument is a claim that needs verification. Examples:

  • /billy "the runner is dead"
  • /billy "this endpoint returns 500 on empty body"
  • /billy "the migration broke prod"
  • /billy "node memory is leaking"

Rules

  1. Do NOT take the claim at face value. Assume nothing. Verify everything.
  2. Do NOT stop at the first piece of evidence. Keep digging until you have a conclusive answer.
  3. Do NOT suggest — investigate. Run commands, read logs, check code, query APIs. Produce evidence.
  4. Do NOT fix anything. This is investigation only. Report findings, never apply changes.

Process

Launch an Agent (model: opus) to perform the investigation. The agent must:

Phase 1: Understand the claim

Parse the assertion. Identify:

  • Subject: what system/component/process is involved
  • Predicate: what is being claimed about it (dead, broken, leaking, failing, etc.)
  • Implicit scope: timeframe, environment, context from the current conversation

Phase 2: Gather evidence

Use every available tool to collect evidence. Prioritize direct observation over inference:

  • Processes and services: ps, systemctl status, docker ps, kubectl get pods, health endpoints
  • Logs: application logs, system logs, journal, container logs, dmesg
  • Code and config: read source code, check recent changes (git log, git diff), review config files
  • Network: curl endpoints, check connectivity, DNS resolution, port availability
  • Resources: disk space, memory, CPU, file descriptors, connection pools
  • External systems: CI/CD status (gh run list), monitoring dashboards, database state
  • History: git blame, recent deploys, recent config changes, cron jobs

Collect at least 3 independent pieces of evidence before forming a conclusion.

Phase 3: Attempt to reproduce

If the claim describes a failure or behavior:

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8c5a1c5f99de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

billy is a skill published in the GitHub repository lexfrei/ccc (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 751 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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