artifact-resurfacing

artifact-resurfacing is a skill for Claude Code from organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (3,437 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A review process for finding mismatches between recorded project information and the files that actually exist on disk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create drift reports, suggest documentation changes, and record lessons for preventing the same problems later.
Why use it?
It helps uncover outdated references, missing files, and plans that no longer connect to active work before they cause confusion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the example-skills plugin — 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to create drift reports, suggest documentation changes, and record lessons for preventing the same problems later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills/artifact-resurfacing
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 organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills --skill artifact-resurfacing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install example-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,437 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00092 $0.03437
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01718
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00344

Measured 12d ago against content hash c3cb29228085, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

artifact-resurfacing scanned grade B 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/audit-citations.sh, scripts/find-orphan-plans.sh, scripts/propose-citation-fix.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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

grep -rl "<artifact-keyword>" ~/.claude/projects/*/memory/*.md 2>/dev/null
distributions/claude/skills/artifact-resurfacing/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Artifact Resurfacing

Open the drift on the table. Surface the buried artifacts — stale citations, missing referenced files, orphan plans, cross-scope memory entries pointing at paths that moved. Polish them in proposal form. Codify the lesson so the next session does not have to re-discover the same drift.

Authority boundary (read first)

This skill is propose-not-apply for any constitutional surface. It produces drift tables, edit diffs, and IRF row proposals. It does not commit edits to CLAUDE.md, MEMORY.md, governance-rules.json, registry-v2.json, or any seed.yaml without explicit conductor authorization in the same session.

  • Closure for plans — defer to closeout. This skill does not assign DONE-NNN / IRF-XXX-NNN labels; it surfaces orphans for closeout's classifier.
  • Memory operations — defer to consolidate-memory for memory file mutations. This skill emits proposed memory diffs.
  • Cross-session continuity — defer to cross-agent-handoff. This skill writes the polish-log entry; handoff carries it forward.
  • Verification of claimed transitions — defer to qa-audit.

Discovery ≠ remediation. The skill finds and proposes. The conductor applies.

When to use

  • "Resurface buried artifacts in "
  • "Find stale citations in this CLAUDE.md"
  • "Reconcile memory drift between scopes"
  • "Audit this domain for orphans"
  • "Polish referenced-but-missing files"
  • "Future-fix this so it doesn't drift again"
  • Closeout has surfaced ≥3 follow-ups whose root cause is drift between memory and disk
  • A MEMORY.md walkback flags ≥1 stale path citation
  • A find for a CLAUDE.md-cited path returns zero results

Four-phase protocol

Phase 1 — Detect

Enumerate the domain's surface. For a target CLAUDE.md or MEMORY.md, extract every:

  • File path (absolute or ~/-anchored)
  • Function/script identifier (foo.py, bar(), --flag)
  • Issue/ledger ID (IRF-XXX-NNN, DONE-NNN, GH#123)
  • External reference (URL, package name, doc anchor)
  • Plan filename (any ~/.claude/plans/*.md referenced by path)

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 12d ago First seen · 253 lines · 92 tokens per session scan B c3cb29228085

Subscribe to this mod's changes

artifact-resurfacing is a skill published in the GitHub repository organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 3,437 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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