apex-decompose

apex-decompose is a skill for Claude Code from OthmanAdi/APEX. It costs 68 tokens per session (915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for examining an existing codebase and turning a feature into a detailed specification for rebuilding it elsewhere. Replatforming or migration means moving software to a new technical foundation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify relevant files, map dependencies, document inputs and outputs, record side effects and error handling, and validate the resulting specification.
Why use it?
It captures how old code behaves, including edge cases and dependencies, before someone rewrites it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/othmanadi/apex/apex-decompose
Any agent
npx skills add OthmanAdi/APEX --skill apex-decompose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OthmanAdi/APEX

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00068 $0.00915
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00092

Measured 5d ago against content hash b98771582afd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apex-decompose 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scan-deps.ps1, scripts/scan-deps.sh), 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.

.agents/skills/apex-decompose/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

APEX Decompose

Break down features from a source codebase into detailed, implementation-ready specifications that an agent can use to rebuild them in a new architecture.

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to understand what existing code does before rewriting it. This is the first step in any replatforming or migration workflow. The output is a specification document, not code.

Workflow

Decomposing a feature involves these steps:

  1. Identify the feature scope (files, modules, entry points)
  2. Analyze behavior and contracts (inputs, outputs, side effects)
  3. Extract implicit knowledge (edge cases, error handling, config dependencies)
  4. Generate the specification document
  5. Validate the spec against the source

Step 1: Identify Feature Scope

Collect all relevant source files. Ask the user or scan the directory:

What feature or module do you want to decompose?
Provide the path(s) to the relevant source files or directories.

Read every file in the scope. Build a dependency graph: which files import which, what external services are called, what state is mutated.

Run the dependency scanner to accelerate this step:

Linux/Mac:

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/scan-deps.sh" <source-dir>

Windows:

powershell -File "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/scan-deps.ps1" <source-dir>

Step 2: Analyze Behavior and Contracts

For each function, class, or module in scope, document:

Aspect What to Capture
Inputs Parameters, environment variables, config values, request shapes
Outputs Return values, response shapes, files written, events emitted
Side effects Database writes, API calls, cache mutations, logging
Error handling Try/catch patterns, error codes, fallback behavior
Dependencies Internal imports, external packages, services called

Step 3: Extract Implicit Knowledge

This is the critical step most migrations miss. Look for:

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 114 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A b98771582afd

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apex-decompose is a skill published in the GitHub repository OthmanAdi/APEX (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 915 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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