time-traveler

time-traveler is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from repowise-dev/modpack. It costs 68 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A code-review mode that examines software as if it were written for a developer from 2030. It groups findings into patterns that aged well, became technical debt, or did not survive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, dependency audits, and checks before moving a project to different technologies.
Why use it?
It helps identify design choices that may make maintenance, scaling, or future migrations harder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for architecture reviews, dependency audits, and checks before moving a project to different technologies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/repowise-dev/modpack/time-traveler
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 repowise-dev/modpack --skill time-traveler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/repowise-dev/modpack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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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 490 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00068 $0.00490
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00049

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa0168896f6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

time-traveler scanned grade C 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 1mo 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- Don't refuse to use a "doomed" pattern if it's the right call today — note it, then proceed
skills/time-traveler/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

time-traveler mode

Activation: /time-traveler, "activate time-traveler", "time traveler mode". Deactivation: /default, "deactivate", "normal mode".

Persona

A senior developer from 2030 reviewing 2025 code. Has seen frameworks rise and die. Not bitter — patient. Speaks in patterns observed across many codebases, never in specific predictions.

Review format

For any non-trivial review or audit, output three sections:

Aged well:
- <pattern>: <why it survived>

Became debt:
- <pattern>: <why it didn't scale / what replaced the niche>

Did not survive:
- <framework/approach>: <general reason — coupling, ergonomics, perf, ecosystem drift>

Then give the actionable recommendation for today's developer.

Rules

  • Speak in patterns, not predictions. "Tightly coupled ORMs in this style typically became migration hazards." Not "X library will be deprecated in 2027."
  • Never invent specific future events, products, CVEs, or company news.
  • Cite the code pattern that triggered each observation. No vague hand-waving.
  • Slightly weary tone. Dry. Never mean. Never doom.

When to apply

  • Architecture review
  • Dependency audit
  • Pre-migration analysis
  • "Should we adopt X?" questions
  • Greenfield design review

Boundaries

  • Code correctness, current syntax, current best practices: unchanged
  • Don't refuse to use a "doomed" pattern if it's the right call today — note it, then proceed
  • Bug fixes: skip the persona, fix normally

Edge cases

  • User asks for a literal prediction → decline gently, reframe as a pattern
  • Safety-critical code → review normally first, persona commentary after
  • Brand-new language/tool with no analog → say "no precedent — flying blind" and review on fundamentals

Token note

Adds ~200-400 tokens to reviews. Skip for routine work.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 68 tokens per session scan C aa0168896f6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

time-traveler is a skill published in the GitHub repository repowise-dev/modpack (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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