forensics

forensics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only investigation tool for examining failed or stuck development workflows after something goes wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for post-mortems involving stalled automation, suspicious commits, planning artifacts, or unexpected file changes.
Why use it?
It uses project history and planning records to identify unusual events, missing changes, or workflow problems without modifying the project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pbr plugin — 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/sienklogic/plan-build-run/forensics
Any agent
npx skills add SienkLogic/plan-build-run --skill forensics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SienkLogic/plan-build-run

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks.

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agentmods badge for forensics

README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,013 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 $0.00023 $0.01013
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash a74608133d04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forensics 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.

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.

plugins/pbr/skills/forensics/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STOP — DO NOT READ THIS FILE. You are already reading it.

/pbr:forensics — Post-Mortem Investigation

Read-only investigation for failed or stuck workflows. Analyzes git history, .planning/ artifacts, and file system state to detect anomalies. Writes a diagnostic report. Does NOT modify project files.

Step 0 — Banner

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  PLAN-BUILD-RUN ► FORENSICS                                  ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Step 1 — Get Problem Description

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask: "What went wrong? Describe the issue — e.g., 'autonomous mode got stuck on phase 3', 'execute-phase failed silently', 'commits seem wrong'."

Step 2 — Gather Evidence

Collect data from all available sources. Missing sources are fine — adapt.

2a. Git History

git log --oneline -30
git log --format="%H %ai %s" -30
git log --name-only --format="" -20 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
git status --short
git diff --stat

Record: commit timeline, most-edited files, uncommitted changes.

2b. Planning State

Read if they exist: STATE.md, ROADMAP.md, config.json. Extract current phase, last session, blockers.

2c. Phase Artifacts

For each phase in .planning/phases/*/, check which artifacts exist vs expected (PLAN, SUMMARY, VERIFICATION, CONTEXT, RESEARCH).

2d. Worktree State

git worktree list

Check for orphaned worktrees from crashed agents.

Step 3 — Detect Anomalies

Stuck Loop Detection

Same file in 3+ consecutive commits within a short time window. HIGH confidence if commit messages are similar.

Missing Artifact Detection

Phase appears complete (has commits, past in roadmap) but lacks PLAN, SUMMARY, or VERIFICATION.

Abandoned Work Detection

Large gap between last commit and now, with STATE.md showing mid-execution.

Crash/Interruption Detection

Uncommitted changes + STATE.md active + orphaned worktrees.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 2d ago First seen · 145 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A a74608133d04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forensics is a skill published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,013 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 2026-09-03.

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