zenobi-us Cyberwise: the mod base
Verified: Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.31 - August 2026
Load cyberwise for the method rules and cyberwise-wiki for the article
format. Everything this skill produces goes in the user bundle and never
ships - see the boundary in cyberwise-wiki.
Start from what is deployed, never from a list
tools\Get-ModInventory.ps1 -GameRoot '<path>' -OutFile inventory.json
This reads <GameRoot>\vortex.deployment.json, which stamps every deployed file
with the staging mod that put it there. That matters for two reasons:
- Staged is not deployed. A manager's list holds disabled mods on purpose, and naming one in a report discredits every other name in it.
- Nothing on disk says who owns a file.
archive\pc\modis a flat pile of archives. The manifest is the only mapping back to an owner, and without it "which mod put this here" is unanswerable.
On the reference install this yields 812 deployed mods from 8,699 files.
Nexus ids are DERIVED, and a derived id can be wrong
Vortex names staging folders after the download, in one of two shapes:
Immersive Bullet Holes-15309-2k-1718581479 Name-<id>-<version>-<unix stamp>
0-Engine Pure CET 27967 0.18.6 2026-06-29T14-25Z Name <id> <version> <ISO date>
The inventory reports the id with the pattern that produced it, so a reader can judge the claim. 801 of 812 resolve; the other 11 have no id at all, because a mod installed from a local zip or built by hand never had one.
Verify a sample against the API before building anything on top of the ids. An id derived wrong does not fail - it silently points every later lookup at a different author's mod page, and the article that results is confidently about the wrong software. The API key lives in Proton Pass and the agent session expires; when it does, this whole avenue is blocked and the local sources below are the fallback, not a lesser option.
The local sources outrank the mod page
A description is what the author says it does. These are what it does:
| question | read |
|---|---|
| what settings exist, and their defaults | r6\scripts\<mod>\Config.reds, @runtimeProperty("ModSettings.*") |
| what the user actually set | red4ext\plugins\mod_settings\user.ini |
| what records it adds or changes | r6\tweaks\**\*.yaml |
| what it hooks | @wrapMethod / @replaceMethod / @addField in its .reds |
| what it registers | registerHotkey / registerForEvent in its CET init.lua |
| what files it contests | cyberwise-conflicts |
A settings table built from Config.reds defaults plus user.ini overrides is
checkable and dated. One built from a mod page is a paraphrase of marketing.
Order to document in
Depth is not free, so spend it where it is repaid:
- Frameworks - anything other mods depend on. Wrong here poisons everything.
- Settings-bearing mods - a
Config.redsor a Mod Settings category means there are decisions to record, and decisions are what a user comes back for. - Mods already implicated in a finding - the investigation is already done.
- Mods that hook shared systems - loot, inventory, vendors, status effects, save/load. These are where interactions come from.
- Everything else - name, layer, files, id. A stub that says where a mod lives is worth having; a stub that guesses what it does is not.
Track coverage in the bundle's own log.md and an index.md per directory.
Never let the index claim an article that is a stub - a listing that
overstates coverage is how a documentation pass quietly stops being trusted.
Tools
| tool | what it does |
|---|---|
tools/Get-ModInventory.ps1 |
every deployed mod, its layers, its files, and its derived Nexus id with the pattern that produced it |
tools/New-ModStubs.ps1 |
one OKF article per deployed mod in the USER bundle, recording only what is true from disk |