investigation-report

investigation-report is a skill for Claude Code from motlin/claude-code-plugins. It costs 69 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for writing a self-contained HTML explanation of a command-line investigation. It records the actual commands and output in chronological order, including useful wrong turns and changed conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for shell debugging walkthroughs, tutorials, technical write-ups, and requests to document how an investigation was performed.
Why use it?
It preserves how the diagnosis was reached, so another developer can follow the evidence and repeat the investigation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the investigation-report plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for shell debugging walkthroughs, tutorials, technical write-ups, and requests to document how an investigation was performed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report
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 motlin/claude-code-plugins --skill investigation-report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motlin/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install investigation-report, 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 investigation-report

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 investigation-report

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/investigation-report.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00069 $0.00612
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00245
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00061

Measured 22d ago against content hash a37137ac0091, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigation-report 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 22d 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.

plugins/investigation-report/skills/investigation-report/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Command-Line Investigation Report

Produce a chronological command log as one HTML page: what you ran, what it printed, and enough reasoning that the reader could rerun it and understand every flag. The goal is teaching, not a status update.

Before designing it, read Red Blob Games' Making of: Circle drawing tutorial as the quality benchmark for teaching through an HTML page.

Structure it as a chronological command log

Walk the investigation in the order it happened, including dead ends, wrong hypotheses, and the commands that disproved them. Do not sanitize it into a clean after-the-fact story. Each step is the command, its real output, one line of why you ran it, and, only where the evidence changed your conclusion, a short "changed my mind" note. Make those turning points stand out; they are the spine of the story.

Show real commands and real output

  • Reproduce commands verbatim. Never clean up flags or show a command you did not run.
  • Paste actual output, trimmed to what matters, and mark every cut visibly (e.g. ... ~60 more lines ...).
  • For commands that revealed nothing useful, skip the output and just note what you ran and why.

Explain unfamiliar commands and flags

  • For non-obvious commands, add a breakdown with one plain-language row per flag.
  • Split fused flags: -nrk3 is -n -r -k3.
  • Explain a pipeline inside-out, like nested parentheses: command substitution first, then the tools it feeds.
  • For a likely unfamiliar tool (e.g. pgrep), add a short "what is X": the basics, the flags used here, and its closest sibling (pgrep/pkill).
  • Let the reader's questions drive depth: skip what they know, expand what they ask about.

Keep commentary out

Cut editorializing, "lessons learned" summaries, and meta-commentary about method unless asked. Prefer "here is what I did" over "here is what you should learn."

End with a command reference

Close with a compact table mapping question → command → what to read from the output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 22d ago Changed · -7 lines a37137ac0091
  2. 29d ago Changed · +6 lines 42609c7435ef
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 7cf62c35e654

Subscribe to this mod's changes

investigation-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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