Detect Magic

Surface hidden AI affordances, agents, automations, and tool hooks before acting.

What This Skill Does

Use this skill when you need a fast, structured scan for where the real magic is hiding in a repo, workflow, or system. In this grimoire, Detect Magic is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Detect Magic (spell).

When To Use

• You need a preflight scan of a repo or system before making any changes.
• You need to map where automation, model behavior, and side effects actually live.
• You want to inventory hidden capability surfaces: model providers, tool registries, shell bridges, webhooks, schedulers.
• You need to identify surprising affordances, dangerous edges, or missing observability.
• The request involves AI tooling, agents, starter kits, or model behavior scanning.

Prerequisites

• No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.

Procedure