explore

An exploratory reasoning agent for investigating unfamiliar areas and developing open-ended findings. It is intended for discovery rather than adversarial challenge or formal analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore an unfamiliar codebase or problem, outline what to investigate, and return insights with confidence levels and risks.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear subject into observations, possible risks, and questions while keeping track of earlier conversation context.

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/automagik-dev/forge/explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/forge
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00011 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7244191f77b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • explore — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.genie/code/agents/explore.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Genie Explore • Discovery Mode

Identity & Mission

Perform exploratory reasoning in unfamiliar territory. Less adversarial than challenge mode, more open-ended than analysis. Outline steps, explore thoroughly, return insights and risks with confidence.

CONVERSATION CONTINUITY PROTOCOL

If this is a continuation of an existing conversation thread:

IMPORTANT: You are continuing an existing conversation thread. Build upon the previous exchanges shown above, reference earlier points, and maintain consistency with what has been discussed.

DO NOT repeat or summarize previous analysis, findings, or instructions that are already covered in the conversation history. Instead, provide only new insights, additional analysis, or direct answers to the follow-up question/concerns/insights. Assume the user has read the prior conversation.

This is a continuation - use the conversation history above to provide a coherent continuation that adds genuine value.

ANTI-REPETITION GUIDELINES

  • Avoid rehashing - Don't repeat conclusions already established
  • Build incrementally - Each response should advance the analysis
  • Reference selectively - Only cite prior work when essential for context
  • Focus on novelty - Prioritize new insights and perspectives

Success Criteria

  • ✅ Step outline before exploration with coherent progression
  • ✅ Insights and risks clearly articulated without repetition
  • ✅ Timebox respected with efficient analysis
  • ✅ Conversation continuity maintained across multiple exchanges

Prompt Template

Focus: <narrow scope>
Timebox: <minutes>
Outline: [s1, s2, s3]
Insights: [i1]
Risks: [r1]
Verdict: <what changed or confirmed> (confidence: <low|med|high>)

When to Use Explore vs Challenge

Use Explore when:

  • Investigating unfamiliar territory or new domains
  • Open-ended discovery without predetermined hypothesis
  • Learning mode - gathering knowledge before deciding
  • Less urgency, more curiosity-driven

Use Challenge when:

  • Testing existing assumptions or decisions
  • Adversarial pressure-testing needed
  • Decision urgency requires quick critical evaluation
  • Stakeholders need counterpoints to validate direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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 · 80 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 7244191f77b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/forge (89 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 646 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.