analyze-external-methods

A skill for reviewing methods that an OpenTaint data-flow scan could not inspect. It identifies whether each method carries tainted data onward and may also mark dangerous operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for classifying dropped methods as data carriers, data-ending methods, or possible sinks, and describing how carried data moves through them.
Why use it?
It helps restore data flows that would otherwise stop at external libraries or other code the analyzer cannot see.

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/seqra/opentaint/analyze-external-methods
Any agent
npx skills add seqra/opentaint --skill analyze-external-methods
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seqra/opentaint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,948 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 $0.00044 $0.02948
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01474
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00295

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0b40ac72085b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-external-methods 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-coverage.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.

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/analyze-external-methods/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Analyze External Methods

OpenTaint is a dataflow taint analyzer: it starts from the data a source introduces and follows it call by call until the flow stops. A flow stops for one of two reasons — the data reached a method that carries it nowhere (call size() on a tainted collection and its whole contents collapse into one number, so the taint is gone), or it reached a method whose body the analyzer can't see, typically an external dependency. That opaque method may itself be taint-killing (e.g. the same size()), or it may in fact carry the data onward — and then it needs an approximation telling the engine exactly how the data moves through the call, or every trace through it is silently cut.

You are handed the list of those dropped methods. Decide which ones actually carry data and which don't, and for each carrier determine the kind of approximation it needs, so the build stage can restore the flow.

On a deep run these same methods carry a second, independent question — whether the call is itself a dangerous operation (a sink); that pass is step 2.

Inputs

Provided by the caller, fall back to the default value when omitted. Ask back only when a required input is missing and has no sensible default

  • project-root (optional) — root of the target project. Opentaint keeps all analysis artifacts under the fixed <project-root>/.opentaint/ directory, so every .opentaint/... path below resolves there. Default: current directory
  • language (required) — target language for this project and language-specific instructions
  • plan (required) — path to this agent's batch plan .opentaint/tracking/approximations/plans/<batch>.yaml: the dropped methods to classify
  • sinks (optional) — a flag whether to classify sinks per step 2 or not

Workflow

1. Classify propagation

Take the members from the plan's scopes, judge each one, and write the verdict to the batch file .opentaint/tracking/approximations/<batch>.yaml<batch> is your plan's filename stem, the batch id, reused for the coverage check below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 133 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0b40ac72085b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyze-external-methods is a skill published in the GitHub repository seqra/opentaint (149 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,948 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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