classify-analysis-target

A starting step for analysing a codebase that identifies what kind of project it is, whether it can be analysed, and which analysis skills apply.

In plain words
What is it for?
Classifying web apps, single repositories, monorepos, multi-service projects, and other codebases before deeper analysis.
Why use it?
It prevents spending time on unsuitable or misunderstood code by checking the project structure, file types, and signs of obfuscation or minification first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer/classify-analysis-target
Any agent
npx skills add quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer --skill classify-analysis-target
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 698 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 $0.00026 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00070

Measured yesterday against content hash 9db65555e08a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

classify-analysis-target 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/classify-analysis-target/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Announce at start: "Using codebase-analyzer to classify the analysis target."

.state File Creation

This skill creates docs/analysis/.state on first run. Write initial state:

# Analysis State
classify-analysis-target: complete

Format: one line per skill, skill-name: complete | partial | blocked | skipped. Every subsequent skill appends its status on completion.

Overview

Classify what we're analyzing before burning tokens. This skill determines target type, analysis feasibility, and applicable skills.

Process

  1. Scan top-level files: Look for manifest files (package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, requirements.txt, Dockerfile, .tf files, .csproj, pom.xml)
  2. Check file types: find . -maxdepth 2 -type f | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
  3. Detect obfuscation/minification: Check for single-line JS files, .pyc-only directories, .wasm files, packed binaries
  4. Identify repo structure: Single repo, monorepo (packages/ or workspaces/), multi-service (docker-compose)
  5. Classify target type and applicable skills

Target Types and Applicable Skills

Target Type Track A Track B Phases
Web app (standard) All 6 All phases
Mobile (decompiled) Tech stack only All phases
IaC (Terraform/CF) Tech stack + deps Phase 2-3 (3 skills + 4 skills; no agent loop, no prompts)
Library/SDK All 6 If gated features found
Monorepo All 6 All phases
Container image Tech stack only All phases
Obfuscated/minified BLOCK Fail fast

Note: All Track A skills emit SECURITY_SIGNAL in their output. These aggregate in the Track A summary for downstream security analysis.

Rationalization Table

Excuse Reality
"Looks like a standard web app" Similar apps differ. Check manifests before assuming.
"I can skip this and just start analyzing" Wrong skills produce garbage. 30 seconds saves hours.
"The user asked a specific question" Specific questions still need classification to know WHERE to look.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. yesterday First seen · 72 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 9db65555e08a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

classify-analysis-target is a skill published in the GitHub repository quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 698 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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