nihil-revelio

nihil-revelio is a skill for Claude Code from Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for automated tests, linting, and other validations that may report success when they examined nothing. It distinguishes an empty or skipped check from a genuinely clean result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit validation scripts and their callers, especially filters and test cases that should cover empty, skipped, failed, and successful states.
Why use it?
A green result can be misleading when filters, missing inputs, skipped steps, or incorrect exit-code handling prevent the check from running.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the opus-pocus plugin — 21 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit validation scripts and their callers, especially filters and test cases that should cover empty, skipped, failed, and successful states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/totes-mickgoats/opus-pocus/nihil-revelio
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 Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus --skill nihil-revelio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opus-pocus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00155 $0.01578
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00789
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00158

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0ab7429965e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nihil-revelio 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 12d 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.

skills/nihil-revelio/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🐉 Nihil Revelio

"It scanned nothing. It said 'clean.' Those are different words."

An unexercised check is blind, not clean. A check that cannot distinguish "I looked and found nothing" from "I never looked" reports the same success for both, and the second one is the state that ships defects. This is the most expensive class of automation defect because it inverts the tool's purpose: the green verdict is not merely uninformative, it is actively misleading, and it is trusted precisely when it should not be.

What to scan

  • Every lint, gate, verifier and test-runner wrapper the repo carries
  • Their verdict logic: what they print, what they exit with, and how the two relate
  • Every caller that reads one of those verdicts — a caller reading an exit code where the artifact is the evidence is half the defect
  • Filter and selector arguments, and what a non-matching filter produces
  • Test suites for the checks themselves: is each verdict state exercised by a case?

Vendor tools are out of scope; their invocation is in scope. You cannot add a verdict state to eslint, pytest, tsc or go test — what you own is the line that calls them and the step that reads the result, so audit that. On a repo whose checks are all vendor tools, the instances of this class look like:

  • a CI step whose file glob matched nothing and exited 0 (eslint $CHANGED with $CHANGED empty)
  • a test run that collected zero tests and reported success — a typo'd pytest -k expression, go test ./internal/... on a package that moved, a Jest testPathPattern matching nothing
  • a continue-on-error: true step whose failure the rollup then reports as green
  • a coverage gate reading an artifact that was never written

Prescribe the guard on the caller: assert a non-empty input set before invoking, assert a non-zero collected-test count after (pytest --co -q | tail -1, jest --listTests | wc -l), and assert the results file exists and is newer than its inputs. If the repo's only checks are vendor tools invoked with no such assertion, that is one finding, not seven.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 12d ago First seen · 90 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 0ab7429965e4

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nihil-revelio is a skill published in the GitHub repository Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,578 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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