skill-reverse-engineer

skill-reverse-engineer is a skill for Codex from tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,332 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-reverse-engineer, MIT.

A method for examining and improving skills for AI agents, including their instruction files, triggers, workflows, resources, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for auditing or reverse-engineering SKILL.md files, agent workflows, prompt instructions, and skill directories.
Why use it?
It helps reveal what an agent skill is designed to do, where its instructions may fail, and which parts are supported by evidence versus assumptions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It is for auditing or reverse-engineering SKILL.md files, agent workflows, prompt instructions, and skill directories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills/skill-reverse-engineer
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 tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills --skill skill-reverse-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,332 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.02332
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01166
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00233

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3a21081c32c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-reverse-engineer 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to skill-reverse-engineer — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

own-skills/skill-reverse-engineer/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Reverse Engineer

Overview

Reverse-engineer visible AI Agent Skills, SKILL.md files, prompt workflows, agent instruction packages, marketplace pages, or skill directories.

Treat the artifact as a designed system, not just text. Identify its intent, trigger logic, workflow, resource strategy, quality level, risks, tests, and reusable creation formula.

Always separate visible evidence from inference. Never claim access to hidden system prompts, private platform routing, marketplace ranking logic, or unavailable files.

Use the lightest output that satisfies the user. A concise diagnosis is better than a full report when the user only asks for a quick read.

同类 Skill 对比

暂无。

使用技巧

暂无(作者跳过)。

Mode Selection

Choose one mode before analyzing:

Mode Use when Output
Quick diagnosis The user asks what the skill is, whether it is good, or why it works Core judgment, trigger logic, workflow, top risks
Full reverse engineering The user asks how the skill was built or asks for a full analysis Structural report, pattern extraction, creation formula
Improvement audit The user asks to improve, rewrite, or strengthen the skill Defects, rationale, targeted rewrite or full SKILL.md
Trigger test The user asks whether the skill will activate reliably Should-trigger, should-not-trigger, ambiguous, and edge queries
Marketplace package The user asks to publish or package the skill Positioning, folder structure, SKILL.md, tests, release checklist
Comparison The user provides multiple skills Shared formula, differences, reusable template

If the user does not specify a mode, infer it from the request. Prefer quick diagnosis for exploratory questions and improvement audit for rewrite requests.

Inputs

The user may provide:

  • Full SKILL.md content.
  • A skill directory tree.
  • A marketplace skill page.
  • A prompt workflow or agent instruction package.
  • Supporting files such as scripts, references, assets, examples, tests, templates, or metadata.
  • Multiple skills for comparison.

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 305 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 3a21081c32c0

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skill-reverse-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,332 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to skill-reverse-engineer, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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