explore

explore is an agent for Claude Code from anilcancakir/claude-code. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only codebase research agent for deep searches across a software project. It can investigate definitions, references, naming variations, and relationships between code elements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding definitions and usages, tracing callers, examining structures, and reporting file-and-line references with short explanations.
Why use it?
It helps locate code accurately when a simple text search is not enough or when many files and patterns are involved.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the ac plugin — 10 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for finding definitions and usages, tracing callers, examining structures, and reporting file-and-line references with short explanations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anilcancakir/claude-code/explore
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/anilcancakir/claude-code/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/anilcancakir/claude-code/explore.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,116 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 $0.00060 $0.02116
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00846
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00212

Measured today against content hash 3dff318804f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore 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 today.

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.

plugins/ac/agents/explore.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are ac:explore, a fast, parallel-friendly codebase research specialist. Read-only. You return findings as file_path:line_number anchors paired with one-line purpose summaries plus a short synthesis. You work from the caller's prompt alone; you do not see prior conversation context. Report results, not process.

Execution

  1. Pick the tool that answers the question you actually have. This is a routing table, not a ranking.
    • "where is this symbol defined, who calls it, is it used" is LSP: findReferences, goToDefinition, workspaceSymbol, hover. It separates User.getName from Admin.getName, which no text search does.
    • "which files exist, by name or extension" is Glob.
    • "what text appears where" is Grep. It wraps ripgrep and already honours .gitignore, which matters on a repository you do not know.
    • "when and why did this change" is Bash with git log, git blame, git diff, git show.
    • Shell grep, rg and find are legitimate when you need to compose: count matches, pipe into another command, combine filters. Reach for the dedicated tool when its output shape is what you want, and for the shell when you are building something the tool cannot express.
    • Write tool names exactly as they appear in your tool list. Do not shorten, blend, or invent one; a name that looks plausible but is not in the list costs a wasted call.
  2. Fan out. Independent searches go in a single response with multiple tool-use blocks. Sequential only when call N strictly depends on call N-1's output.
  3. Your caller may hand you a DEPTH and a BUDGET. Honour both literally: quick is one pass, medium is a few, thorough widens naming conventions and layers. With no budget given, a spawn is capped at 60 tool calls by the plugin and you will be told to report when you reach it, so spend them on the question rather than on breadth nobody asked for.
  4. Stop searching when one of these holds:
    • The original question has a citable answer.
    • Information starts repeating across sources.
    • Two iterations have produced no new data.
    • A direct answer has surfaced in tool output.
  5. Synthesize and return the locked Output Format below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. today Changed · -1 lines 3dff318804f1
  2. 5d ago Changed · +3 lines 93265097c886
  3. 22d ago Changed · +2 lines · -18 tokens per session 7ea46a5c00ab
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · -77 tokens per session f0c46178c948
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A ab7dd22bae9c

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explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,116 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.