inspecting-skills

inspecting-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oaustegard/claude-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python helper for finding code inside installed skills and importing it from other skills. It also handles the difference between hyphens in folder names and underscores in Python module names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list importable skills, configure skill imports, or load an entire skill or selected functions by name.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually search skill folders or adjust import paths. This makes shared Python functions easier to reuse across skills.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/claude-skills.

Good fit Use it to list importable skills, configure skill imports, or load an entire skill or selected functions by name.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,521 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 $0.00033 $0.01521
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 13d ago against content hash 62fdc939880e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inspecting-skills 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (__init__.py, scripts/__init__.py, scripts/discover.py, …), 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.

inspecting-skills/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inspecting Skills

Discover Python code across skills and enable universal imports. Solves the dash-underscore naming mismatch between skill directories (e.g., browsing-bluesky) and Python imports (e.g., browsing_bluesky).

Installation

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/home/user/claude-skills')
from inspecting_skills import setup_skill_path, skill_import

Quick Start

Import a Skill

from inspecting_skills import skill_import

# Import by skill name (dash or underscore form)
bsky = skill_import("browsing-bluesky")
posts = bsky.search_posts("python")

# Import specific functions
search, profile = skill_import("browsing-bluesky", ["search_posts", "get_profile"])

Enable Transparent Imports

from inspecting_skills import setup_skill_path

# Configure once at session start
setup_skill_path("/home/user/claude-skills")

# Now import skills directly (underscore form)
from browsing_bluesky import search_posts, get_profile
from remembering import remember, recall

Discover Available Skills

from inspecting_skills import list_importable_skills

skills = list_importable_skills()
for s in skills:
    print(f"{s['name']} -> import {s['module_name']}")

Core Functions

Discovery

Function Purpose
discover_skill(path) Analyze a single skill directory
discover_all_skills(root) Find all skills with Python code
find_skill_by_name(name, root) Find skill by name (either form)
skill_name_to_module(name) Convert "browsing-bluesky" to "browsing_bluesky"

Indexing

Function Purpose
index_skill(layout) Extract symbols from a discovered skill
index_all_skills(root) Index all skills in repository
generate_registry(root, output) Create registry.json manifest

Importing

Function Purpose
setup_skill_path(root) Enable transparent skill imports
skill_import(name, symbols) Import skill or specific symbols
register_skill(name, path) Register skill at custom path
list_importable_skills() List all importable skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 243 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 62fdc939880e

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inspecting-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (148 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,521 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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