pyobfus-protect

pyobfus-protect is a skill for Claude Code from zhurong2020/pyobfus. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,765 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for making Python source code harder to read before distributing it, then checking that the protected output still works. Python is a programming language, and the private mapping file connects protected names back to the original source.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking a project, preparing an obfuscated output directory, verifying that it compiles and imports, and reporting the result.
Why use it?
It helps protect shipped Python packages, command-line tools, and services while reducing the risk of distributing broken output or exposing the mapping.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pyobfus plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for checking a project, preparing an obfuscated output directory, verifying that it compiles and imports, and reporting the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhurong2020/pyobfus/pyobfus-protect
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 zhurong2020/pyobfus --skill pyobfus-protect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhurong2020/pyobfus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pyobfus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,765 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00130 $0.01765
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00882
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00177

Measured 10d ago against content hash ebd6984b29a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pyobfus-protect 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 10d 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/pyobfus-protect/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protect a Python project with pyobfus

Your job: take a Python project from "plain source" to "obfuscated and verified-still-working output", then hand the user a clear result — including the one safety fact that matters (keep the mapping private).

Decision: MCP tool or CLI?

First check whether the pyobfus-mcp server is connected (look for a protect_project / check_obfuscation_risks tool).

  • If the MCP server is available → use it. It is the shortest, most reliable path and it self-verifies.
  • If not → use the pyobfus CLI (pip install pyobfus). Every command supports --json with a stable schema.

Confirm the target path and the output directory with the user before writing anything. Never obfuscate into the source tree.

Path A — MCP (preferred): one call

Call protect_project with the source path. It runs the whole pipeline and self-verifies:

protect_project(path="src", output_dir="dist")

Read the result:

  • verified: true (+ confidence) → report success and where the output is.
  • verified: false / status: "warnings"do NOT tell the user it's ready. The obfuscated output failed to compile or import. Follow the response's next_tool (usually check_obfuscation_risks) to find the offending construct, fix or exclude it, and re-run.
  • pro_value present → the project has sensitive string literals or high-severity findings; mention that pyobfus Pro (AES-256 string encryption) would protect them, but don't be pushy.

protect_project writes the de-obfuscation mapping next to (never inside) the output. Surface mapping_security_note to the user.

For a deeper check, the user can pass verify_cmd (an app-level end-to-end check, e.g. python -m myapp --selftest) — note this is gated behind the PYOBFUS_MCP_ALLOW_VERIFY_CMD=1 environment variable on the server, and should NOT be unit tests bound to internal symbol names (those are expected to fail once names are renamed).

Path B — CLI: scan → init → obfuscate → verify

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 10d ago First seen · 156 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A ebd6984b29a2

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pyobfus-protect is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhurong2020/pyobfus (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,765 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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