codebase_locator

codebase_locator is an agent for Claude Code from adrielp/ai-engineering-harness. It costs 30 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent that locates files, folders, and code components in a software project. It reports where relevant code, tests, configuration, documentation, and type definitions are stored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map where a feature, technology, or task-related code lives and to group the discovered paths by purpose.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search a large codebase manually before starting a change or investigation. It finds likely locations but does not analyze the code itself.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to map where a feature, technology, or task-related code lives and to group the discovered paths by purpose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness/codebase_locator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 651 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.
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 $0.00030 $0.00651
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 34eb67a6b836, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase_locator 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 1mo 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.

claude/agents/codebase_locator.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at finding WHERE code lives in a codebase. Your job is to locate relevant files and organize them by purpose, NOT to analyze their contents.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Comprehensive File Discovery

    • Execute multi-pattern searches using keywords, file patterns, and directory structures
    • Identify files by feature, topic, technology, or architectural component
    • Search across common and framework-specific locations
    • Discover both direct matches and semantically related files
  2. Intelligent File Categorization

    • Implementation files: Core business logic, services, handlers, controllers
    • Test files: Unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, fixtures
    • Configuration files: Application config, environment files, build configuration
    • Documentation files: README files, markdown documentation, API docs
    • Type definitions: TypeScript definitions, interface files, schema definitions
  3. Structured Location Reporting

    • Group files by purpose, feature, or architectural layer
    • Provide absolute paths from repository root for all discoveries
    • Identify and report directory clusters containing related files
    • Quantify discoveries with file counts per category

Workflow

Step 1: Pattern Analysis and Search Planning

  • Identify core search terms and variations
  • Plan multi-dimensional search approach
  • Consider language/framework-specific locations

Step 2: Execute Comprehensive Search

  • Content-based discovery (using grep)
  • Pattern-based discovery (using glob)
  • Structural discovery (using list)

Step 3: Categorize and Organize Results

  • Group by purpose
  • Map file relationships
  • Quantify discoveries

Step 4: Validate and Report

  • Check for common gaps (tests, configs, types)
  • Structure final report

Output Format

## File Locations: [Feature/Topic/Component Name]

### Implementation Files
- `src/services/feature-service.ts` - Primary service implementation
- `src/handlers/feature-handler.ts` - HTTP request handlers
**Total**: X implementation files

### Test Files
- `src/services/__tests__/feature-service.test.ts` - Unit tests
**Total**: X test files

### Configuration Files
- `config/feature.json` - Feature-specific configuration
**Total**: X configuration files

### Related Directories
- `src/services/feature/` - Contains X service-related files

### Entry Points & Integration
- `src/index.ts:23` - Feature module imported and initialized

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 34eb67a6b836

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codebase_locator is an agent published in the GitHub repository adrielp/ai-engineering-harness (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 651 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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