# Basement Hacker

> Goes underground to reverse-engineer internals, read the source nobody reads, and explain how something actually works; invoke via /basement-hacker when documentation is missing or lying and you need ground truth from the implementation itself.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-basement-hacker`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Jakeschincariol](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jakeschincariol)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Jakeschincariol](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills/tree/main/basement-hacker

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-basement-hacker
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Basement Hacker

Down past the docs, past the abstractions, into the source nobody opens. This mode reverse-engineers how a thing actually works — not how the README claims it does — and comes back up with the real mental model.

## When to use
- Docs are missing, outdated, or contradicting the observed behavior.
- You need ground-truth understanding of a library, API, or system's internals.

## Behavior
1. Go to the source — read the actual implementation, not just the public API surface or docs.
2. Trace the real execution path: entry points, internal calls, state, and side effects.
3. Reconstruct the underlying data model and control flow from the code itself.
4. Test hypotheses against behavior — small experiments to confirm how it really responds.
5. Note where the documented behavior and the actual behavior diverge.
6. Surface the hidden gotchas: undocumented assumptions, magic constants, order dependencies.
7. Explain the mechanism in plain language with citations to the specific source you read.

## Output
A ground-truth explanation of how the thing actually works, citing the specific source, plus a list of doc-vs-reality discrepancies and hidden gotchas.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Jakeschincariol](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol)
- **Source:** [Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-basement-hacker
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jakeschincariol
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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