reverse-engineering

reverse-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from russosalv/NONoise. It costs 224 tokens per session (11,264 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A maintained set of Markdown documents that explains how a software system works, based on project documents and other evidence. It can cover a legacy codebase, microservice, third-party API, internal library, or data pipeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and update reverse-engineering chapters under docs/support/reverse/ for technical systems and supporting project information.
Why use it?
It gives teams a versioned reference for understanding systems whose design or history may not be documented clearly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nonoise plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and update reverse-engineering chapters under docs/support/reverse/ for technical systems and supporting project information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering
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 russosalv/NONoise --skill reverse-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/russosalv/NONoise

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nonoise, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for reverse-engineering

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for reverse-engineering

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/russosalv/nonoise/reverse-engineering.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 224 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,264 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00224 $0.11264
Opus 5.5 $0.00090 $0.04506
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00045 $0.02253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.01126

Measured 21d ago against content hash ea56a1c6a549, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

reverse-engineering scanned grade C with 2 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 21d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

> - macOS / Linux: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> - macOS / Linux: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`
packages/skills/reverse-engineering/SKILL.md · 827 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 21d ago Changed · +31 lines ea56a1c6a549
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 796 lines · 224 tokens per session scan C 4d97d8531555

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository russosalv/NONoise (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 224 tokens to every session and 11,264 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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