Tools / Recipe Chain
Recipe Chain
Stack decoders together into a pipeline. Paste an input, drop in operations, reorder them, and watch the output update at every step. Or hit Magic and let the tool brute-force common decoders up to three layers deep, ranking the candidates by how English-like or flag-shaped they look. The full recipe and your input live in the URL, so you can bookmark a chain or share it with a teammate. Work in progress: more operations land as new tools ship, and the Magic algorithm keeps getting tuned.
The input flows through every operation below in order. Reorder, tweak parameters, and watch the output update live.
Magic
BetaTry every common decoder up to three layers deep and rank the outputs by how English-like (or flag-shaped) they look. The algorithm keeps getting tuned.
Recipe (0 steps)
Add an operation below to start building your pipeline.
Output
0 bytes after 0 stepsOutput appears here as you build the recipe.Try a preset
How the chain works
The pipeline is byte-oriented. Each operation receives the bytes produced by the previous step and returns new bytes. The output area renders the final bytes as UTF-8 text when possible, or switches to a hex view when the bytes are not valid text.
Most operations have a one-click counterpart on the dedicated tool page. Click Open dedicated tool on any step to jump out for a more focused view (with brute-force, frequency analysis, multi-layer mode, etc.) and then come back to the recipe to continue the chain.
Every change updates the URL hash with #i=…&r=… where i is the base64-encoded input and r is the base64-encoded recipe JSON. Because everything stays in the hash fragment, your input is never sent to a server.
When to reach for a chain
- A challenge wraps the flag in two or three layers of obfuscation (hex into XOR into base64).
- You want to verify a hunch quickly: try From Base64 → ROT 13 and see if a flag appears.
- You want to re-run the same pipeline next month. Bookmark the URL and the recipe is saved.
- You want to send a teammate a fully-loaded reproducer. Copy the share link.
Looking for a single-purpose decoder instead? See the full tool list.