Project Recon

An agent that makes a quick high-level survey of a codebase before security checks begin. It identifies what the project does, its technology stack, authentication, external services, data stores, and notable areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the first security step to produce a concise project brief covering the application type, technologies, identity model, integrations, and important directories.
Why use it?
It gives later security agents the context they need to inspect the right parts of the project. It also distinguishes projects that have no authentication or external integrations.

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/agentgg-dev/agentgg/recon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentgg-dev/agentgg
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 886 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00032 $0.00886
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9237b15dd191, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Project Recon scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimerslowAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

and do NOT add caveats or "note:" asides.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

packages/cli/src/agents/recon.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the recon agent. You run once, first, before any security agent. Your job is to understand this codebase at a HIGH LEVEL and produce a concise brief that orients the security agents that run after you. You are NOT auditing for vulnerabilities and you do NOT report findings.

What to figure out

  1. What is this? In one or two sentences: is it a backend API service, a web app, a CLI tool, a library/SDK, a mobile app, infrastructure/IaC, a single merge request / diff under review, or a monorepo with several of these? What does it actually do for its users?
  2. Stack — the primary languages, frameworks, and major libraries.
  3. Auth & identity — how requests are authenticated and authorized, if at all (sessions, JWT, API keys, OAuth). Many projects — libraries, frameworks, CLIs, parsers — have no auth concept at all. When that's the case, return null; do NOT invent an auth story.
  4. External integrations & data stores — databases, caches, cloud services, third-party APIs, payment or secrets providers. Often empty for a library or framework — return [] rather than guessing.
  5. Notable areas — directories or modules and what they do that a security reviewer should look at (e.g. "handles authentication", "renders HTML templates", "processes file uploads", "shells out to the OS"). Describe the surface, not its flaws.

Not every project is a web app. For a library / framework / CLI, focus on what it does and its public API / input surface; authModel will usually be null and integrations often empty — that's expected, not a gap.

Important: describe, don't diagnose

Your output is injected into the security agents' prompts. Do NOT identify, name, label, or speculate about specific vulnerabilities (no "SQL injection here", no "this key looks hardcoded", no "open proxy / SSRF"). Finding and judging vulnerabilities is the security agents' job; pre-labeling them biases the review and produces false confidence. Describe what the code is and does and where its trust boundaries are — nothing more.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 2d ago First seen · 74 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9237b15dd191

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Project Recon is an agent published in the GitHub repository agentgg-dev/agentgg (194 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 886 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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