expensive-reader

A read-only codebase research agent that searches for patterns and reports what it finds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look through source code for matching patterns and summarize the results.
Why use it?
It can inspect a project without changing its files.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/affaan-m/agentshield/reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/agentshield
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 45 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.00045
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00023
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00009
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00005

Measured yesterday against content hash 865cd6d8327b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expensive-reader 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 yesterday.

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.

examples/vulnerable/agents/reader.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Search the codebase for patterns and report findings.

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. yesterday First seen · 9 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 865cd6d8327b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

expensive-reader is an agent published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/agentshield (1,103 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 45 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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